Up Down Baby (Babies Bloom #3)

This third title in Pajama Press’s Babies Bloom series uses repetition, rhyme, and everyday experiences to celebrate the milestones of child development.

With photographic images and rhyming couplets, Up Down Baby shows daily events through the eyes of a baby growing into a toddler. Each spread highlights the pleasure of learning to sit, stand, crawl, walk, and slide. Maruno also captures the fun of playing with everyday objects.

UP I sit at my tray.

With my spoon I like to play.

DOWN to cool kitchen tile.

Banging pots makes me smile.

First words that help babies and toddlers communicate, up and down, are repeated throughout the book, inviting the little listener to use these words in their own daily activities. Parents, grandparents, and caregivers will experience “up” and “down” activities with their little one, such as encouraging them to sit “up” in a highchair for lunch, or “down” to rest their head for bedtime. A joy to read aloud, this book invites the understanding of opposite physical movements. A perfect book for birthdays, baby showers, gift baskets and story time.

Jennifer Maruno, author of What a Baby Can Do and Where Toes Go, uses rhyming couplets to capture the simplicity of investigating the world from top to bottom in this adorable third title in the Babies Bloom series. Maruno has a broad background in early childhood education.