Big Little Baby

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Author(s)

Liz Garton Scanlon

Publisher

Rise x Penguin Workshop

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Release Date

August 19, 2025

ISBN

978-0593890868

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A literary play on a common baby game, encompassing the paradox of babyhood, by Caldecott-winning author Liz Garton Scanlon.

The universal game, “How big is baby? So big!” provides inspiration for this playful and poignant literary text contrasting the physical smallness of a baby with the largeness of their presence and importance. Written in bouncing, masterful rhyme, Liz Garton Scanlon’s words will roll off the tongues of adoring parents and caregivers as they snuggle their littlest readers.

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Sweet Ode to Growing Baby

October 12, 2025 (Updated: June 30, 2026)

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Big Little Baby combines lyrical language, soft illustrations, and the complexities of a growing older baby that is sure to hit just the right nostalgic note for parents. This book is filled with love and explores how the baby is bigger in some ways, but still dependent on their caretakers. I read this with a toddler just before naptime, and it hit just the right notes of a lullaby and calm tone to feel her body relax and prepare for sleep. In many ways, the content is more for the parents who celebrate the bigness of their child, but are happy for them to be a baby.