Award-winning poet Lorna Crozier's soothing lullaby delights in kisses for baby from head to toe.
Combined with beautiful photographs, Lots of Kisses is the perfect board book for parents and caregivers to snuggle up and read with their oh-so-kissable little ones.
October 13, 2014
Canadian poet Crozier offers a soothing rhyme, written in the voice of a caring adult speaking to a baby: “If I kiss your eyelids/ If I kiss your toes/ If I kiss the top of your head/ where your wispy hair grows.” Photographs (largely stock images) show close-ups of babies smiling, sticking their toes in their mouths (“If I kiss your littlest toes/ Whoops!—already they’ve been kissed”), and cuddling with parents. The resolution to this series of ifs (“Will I kiss away your tears?”) makes for a surprisingly somber conclusion, since the idea of distress is absent from the preceding pages. Up to age 3.
Babies are kissed by their grown-ups, from head to toe. In the preamble, a variety of mothers and fathers ask what happens if they kiss their babies' eyelids, toes, heads, wrists and fingers. The lilting rhymed text continues: "If I kiss your belly // If I kiss your ears // If I kiss the knobs of your knees // Will I kiss away your tears?" These lines are meted out spread by spread, printed on one page in a bold, black typeface against gently patterned backgrounds, while a full-color photo of a solo baby or a parent (or parents) engaging with their little one appears on the facing page. Almost half of the cute and bubbly images depict families of color. While the ending is a bit abrupt and the order of body parts kissed is not particularly logical, this title is bound to encourage lots of bonding. (Board book. 6-18 mos.) COPYRIGHT(1) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
January 1, 2015
Babies are kissed by their grown-ups, from head to toe. In the preamble, a variety of mothers and fathers ask what happens if they kiss their babies' eyelids, toes, heads, wrists and fingers. The lilting rhymed text continues: "If I kiss your belly // If I kiss your ears // If I kiss the knobs of your knees // Will I kiss away your tears?" These lines are meted out spread by spread, printed on one page in a bold, black typeface against gently patterned backgrounds, while a full-color photo of a solo baby or a parent (or parents) engaging with their little one appears on the facing page. Almost half of the cute and bubbly images depict families of color. While the ending is a bit abrupt and the order of body parts kissed is not particularly logical, this title is bound to encourage lots of bonding. (Board book. 6-18 mos.)
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