Book Descriptions
for Baby Radar by Naomi Shihab Nye and Nancy Carpenter
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
A lively picture book captures all the sights and sounds experienced by a toddler out for an autumn stroller ride. The energetic narrative is firmly grounded in the present moment, creating a marvelous stream-of-consciousness catalog of the young child’s observations and feelings: “Giant trees / dropping leaves / in my lap / Spin them around / make them fly!...A tissue from shopping bag...Mama shouts / Not yours! / It’s mine / It’s mine! Everything’s mine!” Nye’s vivid and engaging prose is illustrated by Nancy Carpenter’s watercolor and pen-and-ink artwork. Highly Commended, 2004 Charlotte Zolotow Award (Ages 18 months – 4 years)
CCBC Choices 2004 . © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 2004. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
Out! Out!
Into the world
on wheels!
Into the world
on wheels!
What will you see?
Everything!
Who will you meet?
Everybody!
What will you smell
from way down there?
Lots!
What will you find?
Things that are:
soft, wet, furry, sweet.
How will you feel?
Fast. Slow. Small. Big.
Alive.
Come out, out
into the world
on wheels . . .
until it's time to
come home again.
Publisher description retrieved from Google Books.
