Review Detail

All of Those Babies

Kids Fiction 239

Pufflings and Puggles and Poults!

March 13, 2024

Overall rating

4.3

Plot

4.0

Characters

4.0

Writing Style

5.0

Illustrations/Photos (if applicable)

4.0

This picture book in verse does an excellent job of rhyming the different animals and their babies, and has a refrain of "everyone grows". This makes the story a very quick and engaging read. With accompanying illustrations, we meet everything from sheep and their lambs to echnidas and their puggles. Not only are their drawings of the various cygnets, keets, and porcupettes, but the backgrounds of the picture give a good idea of what the animals' environs are like. This ends with a brief exploration of human babies and their skills (almost nonexistent!) and shows the reader how humans also grow.

Good Points

The illustrations are very charming, and have almost a Chuck Jones vibe to them. The eyes are particularly expressive, and it's fun to see the little penguins, giraffes, and squids grow. The colors are bright, and there is some attempt at keeping animals from the same areas of the world together.

This would be a great book to read to console a child who had just outgrown a favorite outfit, and is a great addition to picture books about animal babies, like Reid's A World of Love, Lerwill's Do Baby Elephants Suck Their Trunks?: Amazing Ways Animals Are Just Like Us, and National Geographics photo illustrated Little Kids First Big Book of Baby Animals.