I'm Your Peanut Butter Big Brother

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Selina Alko

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Knopf Books for Young Readers

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March 10, 2009

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0375856277

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In this delightfully engaging picture book, our narrator, big brother, uses his boundless imagination to wonder what his new sibling will look like. Baby brother or sister, will you look like me? I blend from semisweet dark Daddy chocolate bar and strawberry cream Mama’s milk. My hair is soft crunchy billows of cotton candy. I’m your peanut butter big-brother-to-be. Selina Alko’s lyrical and jazz-like text, matched with the vibrant energy of her illustrations, perfectly captures the excitement of a new baby for an older sibling, while celebrating the genuine love of family. Selina Alko is the illustrator of My Taxi Ride and My Subway Ride. She graduated from the School of Visual Arts and lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Sean Qualls, who is also an illustrator, and their two children.

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A GOOD READ&AND YUMMY, TOO

July 05, 2009 (Updated: June 22, 2026)

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Reader reviewed by Rita Lorraine Hubbard, The Original H.I.R. (Historical Investigative Reporter)

If youre looking for a great picture book with a different type of format, you just may have found it. Im Your Peanut Butter Big Brother, by author/illustrator Selina Alko, has a little bit of something for everyone.

            Im Your Peanut Butter Big Brother captures the wonder and imagination of a big brother waiting for his baby sister or brother to be born, and blends that wonder with the idea of total, unconditional acceptance.

            Big Brothers Mom is strawberry cream mothers milk in color, and his Daddy is semi-sweet dark daddy chocolate bar. The books unique format offers a series of dream-like skin-color and hair-texture combinations (all illustrated by the author!) to describe what Big Brother imagines the new baby might look like when it is finally born. Combinations like ginger cookie brown skin and cappuccino-frosted fro, make this book a visual delight. And all the while Big Brother imagines these quirky but cute combinations, he portrays only love, excitement and acceptance over the new addition to the family.

            This is a multi-cultural jewel without even trying. So if your goal is to teach your children or your students about tolerance, acceptance and the beauty of multiculturalism, I highly recommend Im Your Peanut Butter Big Brother.

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