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Happy in our skin

Bouquets of babies sweet to hold: cocoa-brown, cinnamon, and honey gold. Ginger-coloured babies, peaches and cream, too - splendid skin for me, splendid skin for you! A delightfully rhythmical read-aloud text is paired with bright, bustling art from the award-winning Lauren Tobia, illustrator of Ann...

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Main Author: Manushkin, Fran.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Sommerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Zipser, Ruth and Murray Schoenholtz tribute.
Skin > Juvenile fiction.
Infants > Juvenile fiction.
Human skin color > Juvenile fiction.
Summary: Bouquets of babies sweet to hold: cocoa-brown, cinnamon, and honey gold. Ginger-coloured babies, peaches and cream, too - splendid skin for me, splendid skin for you! A delightfully rhythmical read-aloud text is paired with bright, bustling art from the award-winning Lauren Tobia, illustrator of Anna Hibiscus, in this joyful exploration of the new skin of babyhood. A wonderful gift book for new mums and toddlers, all children can see themselves, and open their eyes to the world around them, in this sweet, scrumptious celebration of skin in all its many, many, wonderful forms.
Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 26 cm.
ISBN: 0763670022 (hardcover)
9780763670023 (hardcover)
Author Notes: Fran Manushkin is the author of more than fifty books for children, including the Katie Woo series and Baby, Come Out!, illustrated by Ronald Himler and translated into eight languages. She lives in New York City.

Lauren Tobia is the illustrator of several books for children, including the Anna Hibiscus books, written by Atinuke, and Baby's Got the Blues by Carol Diggory Shields. She lives in a tiny house in Bristol, England.

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