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Awards and honors for Mommy Laid An Egg:
LA Parent Book Award
Publishers Weekly, starred review

Mommy Laid An Egg

Or, Where Do Babies Come From? By Babette Cole

9-3/4 x 9-1/2 in; 40 pp ; Full Color Throughout, All ages
Hardcover
Published in June, 1993
ISBN 0811803503
ISBN13 9780811803502
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$13.95  

Mommy Laid An Egg -- In this hilarious twist on one of the most difficult discussions in a child's development, award winning author Babette Cole illustrates the one question all children are bound to ask: Where do babies come from? Mom explains that you can make babies out of gingerbread, grow them from seeds, or squeeze them out of tubes, while Dad says you can find babies under rocks. Amused by their parents' silly answers, the children decide to set the adults straight. In a series of zany diagrams, the children show the adults exactly where babies come from. The offbeat illustrations are accompanied by a text that is short, simple, and anything but predictable. This is a funny book that will delight, entertain, and educate the entire family.

Babette Cole has written and illustrated many books for children, and also works as a printmaker and card designer. Ms. Cole graduated from the Canterbury College of Art in Kent, England, and now lives in an old cottage in the heart of the English countryside with her beloved dogs and horses.

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Cole's drawings and simple text are candid without being offensive and communicate the essentails of conception and childbirth in a direct but light-hearted manner that will leave everyone grinning and no one embarrassed. Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

. . . an accessible, humorous, accurate look at where babies come from. Booklist