Making a Baby -- Rachel Greener, Hardcover

This inclusive guide to how every family begins is an honest, cheerful tool for conversations between parents and their young ones.

To make a baby you need one egg, one sperm, and one womb. But every family starts in its own special way. This book answers the Where did I come from? question no matter who the reader is and how their life began. From all different kinds of conception through pregnancy to the birth itself, this candid and cozy guide is just right for the first conversations that parents will have with their children about how babies are made.

Author: Rachel Greener
Publisher: Dial Books
Published: 06/22/2021
Pages: 32
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 10.70h x 9.40w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780593324851
Audience: Ages 9-12

Review Citation(s):
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2021 pg. 115
School Library Journal 09/01/2021 pg. 75

About the Author
Rachel Greener is a children's books editor from London who has edited fiction, nonfiction and picture books about everything from the ancient Egyptians and ocean plastics to teenage detectives and zombie goldfish. She wrote this book because she thinks it is important that all children have a chance to see their family story reflected in a book about where babies come from.

Clare Owen graduated from art school in 2009 and has been working as a freelance illustrator ever since. She works on a big variety of fun projects, creating pictures and patterns for home products, stationery, picture books, magazines, and packaging--all influenced by her love of color, nature, and mid-century design. Originally from Cornwall, she now lives in Bristol with her boyfriend and two cats.