I have had the "no kid has ever asked to re~read Anti Racist Baby" conversation with my mom friends at least three times in the past week. I didn't think we were the only ones thinking like this, so thanks for writing this down.
Give me Global Babies Bedtime or Bodies are Cool anytime.
YES thank you, we received two copies of that particular board book for our now three-year old and I don't really want to sully any of the local little free libraries with a copy so they just stay buried way deep on the bookshelf. Luckily, my daughter seems uninterested in them (but she is in a big phase of loving the 50 year-old golden books my mom dredged up from storage and woof those are a different kind of NOT GREAT.)
We had the same issue but with make-that-kid-a-science-nerd books; I thought they were mostly a nod to how dorky this child's parents were. "Rocket Science for Babies" and "Quantum physics for babies." To my great chagrin, our kid does love these books, and in particular "Bacteria and antibiotics for babies" taught both my kid and me some valuable understanding of how medicines work that we can use when particular forms of winter crud descendsupon the household and the amoxicillin must be taken...
YES. Portland public libraries are full of shiny new board book copies of “M is for Melanin” and “The Pronoun Book” and look, I get it, but also my two-year-old cannot comprehend these truly adult concepts nor will either of us tolerate choking down content meant to please a DEI committee and not a curious little kid! Hadn’t heard of Global Babies; grateful to know it now 🙏
I loved Global Babies. I felt so soothed in reading it and also yes babies love babies and it is so genuine of a lovefest of baby love and connection. also echoing the appreciation for bodies are cool I saw in another comment; it is very real and not at all didactic imo.
I am so Global Babies-pilled I now just turn the pages and recite it from memory without looking! Clement STILL loves that book, and has since he could identify human faces.
The high-fiber moral pandering books make me so angry; it feels like a publishing cash grab. Girlbosses for Babies, published right next to like, Rush Limbaugh's imprint.
100 percent agree. Thank you for the rude takes, haha. There's this other Feminist Baby series (with a tie to Disney??) that I hate so much but my daughter constantly wanted to check out from the library because she thought the title was "Funniest Loudest Baby" and I could almost live with that.
shout out to the Rebel Girls series. Daughter loves it, I never minded reading it (that is, it is serious about the subject matter and well written), a lot of historical and contemporary figures worth reading about with good illustrations, five volumes and counting. She's transitioned to reading it on her own and I'll find her just camped out with the first volume, sounding out the bigger words and then going back to reading to herself.
I have had the "no kid has ever asked to re~read Anti Racist Baby" conversation with my mom friends at least three times in the past week. I didn't think we were the only ones thinking like this, so thanks for writing this down.
Give me Global Babies Bedtime or Bodies are Cool anytime.
YES thank you, we received two copies of that particular board book for our now three-year old and I don't really want to sully any of the local little free libraries with a copy so they just stay buried way deep on the bookshelf. Luckily, my daughter seems uninterested in them (but she is in a big phase of loving the 50 year-old golden books my mom dredged up from storage and woof those are a different kind of NOT GREAT.)
We had the same issue but with make-that-kid-a-science-nerd books; I thought they were mostly a nod to how dorky this child's parents were. "Rocket Science for Babies" and "Quantum physics for babies." To my great chagrin, our kid does love these books, and in particular "Bacteria and antibiotics for babies" taught both my kid and me some valuable understanding of how medicines work that we can use when particular forms of winter crud descendsupon the household and the amoxicillin must be taken...
YES. Portland public libraries are full of shiny new board book copies of “M is for Melanin” and “The Pronoun Book” and look, I get it, but also my two-year-old cannot comprehend these truly adult concepts nor will either of us tolerate choking down content meant to please a DEI committee and not a curious little kid! Hadn’t heard of Global Babies; grateful to know it now 🙏
I am so tired of the 'kids' books that are really written to make grownups feel better' genre!!!!!!!!
Thank you for recommending something better in its place!
I loved Global Babies. I felt so soothed in reading it and also yes babies love babies and it is so genuine of a lovefest of baby love and connection. also echoing the appreciation for bodies are cool I saw in another comment; it is very real and not at all didactic imo.
I am so Global Babies-pilled I now just turn the pages and recite it from memory without looking! Clement STILL loves that book, and has since he could identify human faces.
The high-fiber moral pandering books make me so angry; it feels like a publishing cash grab. Girlbosses for Babies, published right next to like, Rush Limbaugh's imprint.
100 percent agree. Thank you for the rude takes, haha. There's this other Feminist Baby series (with a tie to Disney??) that I hate so much but my daughter constantly wanted to check out from the library because she thought the title was "Funniest Loudest Baby" and I could almost live with that.
shout out to the Rebel Girls series. Daughter loves it, I never minded reading it (that is, it is serious about the subject matter and well written), a lot of historical and contemporary figures worth reading about with good illustrations, five volumes and counting. She's transitioned to reading it on her own and I'll find her just camped out with the first volume, sounding out the bigger words and then going back to reading to herself.
I haven’t thought of global babies in six years and I just got misty eyed. What a great book.
Truest of words, Evie, on every single count. A genuine service!
Yes!!! Those books always have no plot, no cadence, no joy. Also huge fan of global babies, it is the best.