Eco Babies Wear Green

Urban Babies Wear Black

by Michelle Sinclair Colman

The urban babies have gone green! Whether living life in the fast-carpool-lane, or eating locally grown produce, you'll find these trendy tots going the extra mile to reduce, reuse, and recycle.

The Urban Babies Wear Black series has sold more than 50,000 copies.

Perfect fit for Earth Day promotions.

Fifth book in best-selling toddler series.

Reviews

"Just the right size for little hands." -Richmond Parents Monthly

"For parents and 'eco-babies' shopaholics" -Thedailygreen.com, a Hearst publication

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books, Green

20 pages, Board Book

First published April 1, 2008

Reviews

[Anna Claxton · Rating 4 out of 5]

“Four stars. This book is really funny. The eco baby book is really funny. My favorite part is the funny part.” -my four year old

[Crystal Marcos · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the first in the series by Michelle Sinclair Coleman I have read. Eco Babies Wear Green is an adorable book. My daughter and I enjoyed it. I love how the book begins with a picture of a daddy changing his baby's cloth diaper. It was nice to see a daddy in a book changing a diaper which many daddy's do. The father also had a cute rubber ducky tatoo on his arm. Which just made me think he loved his son so much he got that particular tatoo. Another favorite page of mine and Kaylee's was Eco babies eat local. There is a picture of a baby girl wearing a darling strawberry hat in a strawberry field enjoying herself so much she is covered with strawberries. While I was reading this book I found myself adding text. For example, Eco babies turn off the lights "because it saves energy." It is a great little book for parents who are green or trying to be greener to help encourage their children. My baby daughter loves to throw things in the trash (thankfully those things that belong there) so I started showing her how to throw things in the recycle bin. She is already recognizing cardboard as going in the recycle. So she really enjoyed when I said the word "recycle" reading this book. If you can pick up this book used as I was able to, it makes the purchase fit reduce, reuse, recycle.

[Jenny · Rating 5 out of 5]

A review by Tilly (transcribed by Mom): My favorite part of this book is the page on composting. It makes me laugh because I am also learning how to throw cheerios on the floor. (Mom doesn't think it's as funny as I do.)

[Annie Payne · Rating 3 out of 5]

A cute installment in this series.

[annalee ✨ · Rating 2 out of 5]

Eco Babies are freaky looking lmao

[Emily Childress-Campbell · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is one of many in a series that started with Urban Babies Wear Plaid. Other books include Foody Babies Wear Bibs and Country Babies Wear Black. The book tells about things that eco babies do like compost, save water, and carpool. One amazon reviewer said, "I found this one sort of pretentious and not very engaging for my babe. He's only a year but many of the other board books will at least hold his attention be it the pictures or the flow of words as I'm reading. Not this one. He squirms every time I try to read it to him." I don't think it's surprising that her son squirms since he is one year old and has no idea what words like "compost" mean, let alone the idea of environmentalism. However, another amazon reviewer said, "Teaching our daughter to be environmentally friendly is very important to my husband and I, this book allows us to start at a young age and it is such a fun read!" so it may be a good book for older readers, especially if parents want to start a conversation about environmentalism. Many of the positive reviews on Amazon, however, said that books in this series made great gifts for baby showers, probably because everyone present at the baby showers was an adult who liked to consider themselves "eco" or "urban" or "foodie". While these books are cute and clever they seem to appeal more to parents than children.

[Cindi · Rating 4 out of 5]

What color do the environmentally-concious babies of hybrid-driving northern Californians wear? Green, of course! From the author and illustrator of Urban Babies Wear Black, is a board book perfect for those babies being raised by parents who eat locally grown produce, keep a close watch on their carbon footprint, and carpool from their solar-heated house in Petaluma to their job in the Bay Area.

The one sentence per page text and whimsically drawn illustrations will make this a board book that is loved not only by tiny, first-time readers, but by their parents and older siblings, too. The book also could be used as a way to further educate little ones and spend time together as a family.

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[Michelle Farella · Rating 4 out of 5]

More for the parent than the child, but good for a laugh.

[Jack Kirby and the X-man · Rating 1 out of 5]

I haven't read the others in the series (Urban Babies Wear Black, etc), in fact it was only when I started writing this that I realised there was a series. Maybe the others in the series are more amusing - but this book seemed to be too bossy and prescriptive for my liking.

[Christina · Rating 2 out of 5]

If you are going to a baby shower, don't take this book as a gift. I've seen many Eco friendly board books that will capture a babies imagination. These illustrations are all homogenous and flawed conceptually for actually reading to a young one. These books are popular only because ADULTS think they are cute. New parents need a selection of board, bath and cloth books with high contrast to start the baby on a serious book addiction. Try DK or Suess.

[Tamara · Rating 4 out of 5]

The first two pages were a bit uninspired (Eco babies wear green; Eco babies love nature), but the other pages are more playful (Eco babies run on solar, with an illustration of a baby playing outside; Eco babies recycle, with an illustration of a baby playing in a cardboard box with a newspaper sailor's cap.)

[Abby · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's an unapologetic piece of propaganda promoting green living. The illustrations are simple, as is the text. Each page has a simple sentence like, "Eco babies recycle," and "Eco babies compost." It has a great message, and I hope that it makes a difference for the kids and parents who read it, but I thought it was pretty dumb and kind of hilarious.

[Mimo · Rating 2 out of 5]

Seriously? We're pressuring babies to be green now? Being good to our earth should be the norm, not the latest trend or fad. I am not surprised that it has not yet left our new book shelf at the library.
The two stars are for the illustrations.

[Megan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Urban babies wear black. Eco babies wear green. What next?

[Mary Beth · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great little board book--got it for a baby shower on Earth Day! Good message for budding environmentalist kids!
Super cute.

[Salina Gonzales Frazier · Rating 5 out of 5]

Such a cute board book! And love that the first page is a baby having his CLOTH diaper changed! The entire series is adorable!

[Heather · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute, but could use some racial and ethnic diversity. Eco Babies Wear Green, but are apparently white (except for that one token brown baby).

[Meredith · Rating 4 out of 5]

Eco babies wear recycle, carpool, use solar energy, and other partcipate in other "green" practices.

[Gillian Mccalman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great kids book, great to help teach the kids about environment and open disscusions with the kids.

[Peacegal · Rating 3 out of 5]

In this board book, some environmental buzzwords are introduced.

[Mary · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of my favs. Lydia lit up when she saw it. We both love to kiss trees.