No llores Chiquitin!/ Smile Baby Smile

by Moira Butterfield, Rosalind Beardshaw (Illustrator)

When the baby starts to cry the family try all they can to make him smile again. A song, a game of pit-a-pat, and even a drive in the car don't work.

Whatever can they do to make the baby happy?

Anyone who has ever helped look after a baby will recognize the familiar situations in this charming and funny story.

Genres: Picture Books, Storytime, Family

32 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

I wrote my first book when I was 8 years old. I glued photos of my cats in a blank book and wrote about them, too. Now I am an internationally-published children's author commended by the Library of Congress for my work encouraging children to read.
I write in a room between a deli and an art gallery on a small town street. I can see families walking by, and I can hear children laughing and playing. It helps me to remember what exactly I'm doing this for - creating books for families all over the world to use together, and helping children to love words.

Reviews

[Bernadette · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book caught my attention because of the beautiful illustrations. The bright colors and detailed pictures will keep the attention of beginning readers up to older readers. It is a book for the classroom for young and beginning readers as well as a book to have at home to be read by parents to their little ones.
It shows how a family works together to make the baby happy by trying everything yet overlooking something simple.


Lesson: Teacher can plan an activity to include color recognition as well as story sequence. Children will learn the order of the story by beginning, middle, and end. Teachers can ask prompting questions so that the children can answer as to what comes next in the story.
This can also be used as an "All About Me and My Family" activity.

[L.a. Fraser-mcpherson · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a nice book for younger children in the EYFS. The book is about a little baby who's parent and siblings try many ways to make the baby stop crying. The baby is humorous and younger children will definitely find it interesting. I would use this story for story/carpet time and maybe link it to PSHE by asking them afterwards which ways they would have thought of/tried to make the baby smile. It could also be linked to them thinking about what needs to be done in order to look after a baby and keep a baby happy and healthy.

[Kelly Thevenot · Rating 3 out of 5]

Smile, Baby, Smile is a young childrens book with very good illustrations. I wouldn't use this book to teach a lesson to my students, I would read it when we would have extra time throughout the day.

[Britt · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the book I have to read every night with my two-year-old. No matter what else we read, we always have to end with this one. She loves the rhythm of the book, the rhymes, and all the things they try to do to make the baby smile.

[Jaxon · Rating 4 out of 5]

My mama gave me this book for Christmas in 2008 and I still laugh at it.

[Ashley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute! I really enjoyed the rhyming until the end, but it did and with a SMILE!!!

[Shelby Troutman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Shows the fun of having a new baby. I would ust this if a student's mother was expecting to show how fun and stressful it can be.

[Kayla · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book because my daughter can read it all by herself. She can hardly talk, but you can understand when she says, "And the be... cryyyyy"