Wrapping Things

Wrapping Things portrays a preschool girl named Rosie, who loves to wrap things. She knows that wrapping means a gift, so loves to draw and wrap her pictures to give away. She wraps her favourite soft toys, just as she was once wrapped as a baby, and loves to help with real presents to loved ones.

Surrounded by love at home with mum and dad, Rosie is a happy child. She loves Granny coming to stay too, but isn’t sure about her parents not being home when she wakes one night.

There is a special reason they aren’t home, and Granny is patient and loving as she explains.

It’s only when Rosie sees Mum and Dad in a hospital room, with their own specially wrapped bundle, that Rosie is truly happy again – greeting her baby sister.

 

A gentle story, perfectly matched with illustrations in pastel tones by Hilary Jean Tapper.

Wrapping Things would make a great addition to any family with a toddler or young child, and a baby on the way. The child can follow Rosie’s journey through common interests like drawing, soft toys and favourite baby blankets, bath and bed time.

The story then moves onto a grandmother coming to stay before the birth of the new baby and the changes a young child may see and feel. Mum and Dad away, a visit to a big building (hospital), and finding mum in a bed and dad sleeping in a chair beside her.

The wariness, curiosity and joy of Rosie meeting her new baby sister is gorgeous on the page.

 

Author – Linda Burgess

Illustrator – Hilary Jean Tapper

Publisher – Allen & Unwin

Picture Book

 

 

 

 

(2025. Allen & Unwin, Aotearoa New Zealand, NZ Author, NZ Illustrator, Family, New Baby, Parcels, Wrapping, Gifts, Presents, New Sibling)

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