Smile, Baby, Smile

by Rosalind Beardshaw (Illustrator), Moira Butterfield

In an attempt to make baby stop crying and start smiling again, family members try a host of ideas including singing a song, playing a game of pit-a-pat, and driving in the car.

Genres: Picture Books, Storytime, Family

32 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Rosalind Beardshaw has illustrated several picture books for children. A television star and artist named Rolf Harris visited her school when she was ten years old and inspired her to draw and draw and draw. She’s still drawing today. She lives in York, England with her partner, young son, and baby daughter.

Reviews

[Bernadette]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[Ashley]

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

[Shelby Troutman]

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]

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"