babies

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babies

Oonga boonga

1998
Big brother Daniel seems to have just the right touch when it comes to making baby Louise stop crying.

Pandora

1996
Feeling neglected when her human family has a baby, Pandora the cat runs away to live in the wild, where she has her own kittens before returning to her house.

Alvin Webster's surefire plan for success (and how it failed)

1987
Gifted fifth grader Alvin Webster, accustomed to always being the best, the first, and the one with the most right answers, has some adjustments to make when he finds out he is getting a new baby brother at the same time he tries to tutor a less gifted student who does not want to be tutored.

Buzz Bumble to the rescue

2005
Buzz Bumble, widely admired for his flying ability, resents having to watch the cute new baby when he should be practicing for an important visitor, but only he can rescue Baby when she takes a misstep into a Venus fly trap.

Guess the baby

2002
When Sam brings his baby brother to school for Show and Tell, it provides Mr. Judd with an opportunity to teach the class some things about babies, including that even grown-ups were babies once.

City of names

2002
After receiving a strange book at school, ten-year-old Howie Quackenbush discovers that he can transport himself to various places around his town and also learns something vitally important about his soon-to-be born baby sister.

The lapsnatcher

1997
After he talks with an adult who was once a lapsnatcher, Jacob begins to feel differently about his new baby sister.

Baby wants the moon

1994
Sonny worries about how much his baby sister will grow, especially when she seems to eat all the time.

When I was little

a four-year-old's memoir of her youth
1999
A four-year-old describes how she has changed since she was a baby.

Superbabe goes to the park

1989
Superbabe's visit to the park playground leaves everyone exhausted.

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