Please, Baby, Please
Go back to bed,
baby please, baby, please.
Not on your HEAD,
baby baby baby, please!
Academy-Award nominated filmmaker Spike Lee and his wife, producer Tonya Lewis Lee, preset a behind-the-scenes look at the chills, spills, and unequivocal thrills of bringing up baby!
Vivid illustrations from celebrated artist Kadir Nelson evoke toddlerhood from sandbox to high chair to crib.
Worst book ever
I can't believe that trees were killed to produce this awful travesty of a children's book. The text is annoying and idiotic. Kids are supposed to like repetition but the endless begging of "please, baby, baby, baby, please, baby" is mind-numbingly horrid, not to mention that it sounds like something you'd hear coming out of the VIP room in a cheesy strip club. I suspect that this monstrosity came into being for two reasons: (1) its authorship by Spike Lee (one of my least favorite people) and (2) the illustrations of the African-American eponymous "Baby" makes it attractive as a shower gift for expectant mothers of color.
Please, book-buyer, please, pass this one up. Please, please, please.
All bad ideas
I love the pictures in this book, and it was my daughter's go-to book for six nights straight until I consigned it to the garage. My husband and I both thought the book had a negative influence. Don't pour your bowl of cereal over your head ... baby baby please ... Great! She had never thought of that before! (She's two.) Don't stick your tongue out at other people ... please baby please ... again. She hadn't done that until the book arrived. Also not a fan of the one about throwing a tantrum when it's time to leave the playground, refusing to hold mama's hand when requested to, coloring with crayons on the wall, or eating sand.
I know all ideas eventually occur to all kids, anyway, but it just seemed unnecessary for us to have a whole book sort of glorifying them. Too bad, because the pictures really are fun.
VERY CUTE BOOK! ENTERTAINING, FOR SURE
The book is very entertaining and the illustrations are the best part of it. Pre-schoolers will adore the book.
A winner...
I had read this book to my little ones less a handful of times and to my surprise later that day in the car my 3 year old started singing the first few pages of this book along with a little shimmie and shake with the "baby, baby, baby, please"s. When we got home, she asked for it another 2-3 times. It's an instant favorite. Is it negative? Maybe. But children shouldn't be writing on the walls or refusing to share...so it's warranted. Using a playful sing-song approach when reading the book lightens it up for the kids and makes it a crowd pleaser. 5 stars.
adorable
the book is very good and age appropriate. the children (18 months) really enjoy listening to it.
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Filmmaker Spike Lee and wife Tonya Lewis Lee join the ranks of other celebrity kids' book writers with their sweet, rhythmic read-along about the endless energy of a toddler blasting through a busy day.
The Lees' diapered dynamo starts early (the VCR reads 3:01 a.m.), with the little girl outlasting her mama sprawled out on the living room floor ("Go back to bed, baby, please, baby, please"). A breakfast of upturned Cheerios follows a few hours later ("Not on your HEAD, baby baby baby, please!"), then play time, a trip to the playground, dinner, and a bath ("Please don't splash, baby baby, please, baby!"). The fun repetition doesn't change up until the book's sweet close, as the curly-haired tyke somehow can't get to sleep ("Kiss me good night? Mama, Mama, Mama, please").
The Lees have as much or more success than their high-profile counterparts (Jerry Seinfeld: Halloween, John Lithgow: Marsupial Sue; and Jamie Lee Curtis: I'm Gonna Like Me: Letting Off a Little Self-Esteem), thanks in large part to their excellent choice of illustrator Kadir Nelson, whose work has appeared everywhere from Sports Illustrated to the New Yorker. Just as he did with Will Smith's Just the Two of Us, Nelson uses his enormous talent to inject energy and emotion into each richly colored, Rockwellian spread. (Baby to preschool) --Paul Hughes
Product Description:
Go back to bed,
baby please, baby, please.
Not on your HEAD,
baby baby baby, please!
Academy-Award nominated filmmaker Spike Lee and his wife, producer Tonya Lewis Lee, preset a behind-the-scenes look at the chills, spills, and unequivocal thrills of bringing up baby!
Vivid illustrations from celebrated artist Kadir Nelson evoke toddlerhood from sandbox to high chair to crib.
Number Of Pages: 32
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