Babies Need Books

Front Cover
Penguin, 1988 - Family & Relationships - 212 pages
On reading books with babies and young children.

From inside the book

 

Contents

Book List I
14
When I was One I had just begun
37
Book List 2
53
Copyright

2 other sections not shown

Common terms and phrases

A. A. Milne action adults age group Alfie animals artist author-artist baby Bear board books Bodley Head Bodley Head/Puffin paperback Book List bright certainly characters cheerful child Christmas colour counting book detail Dick Bruna double spread Dr Seuss early Edward Lear enchanting endpapers enjoy experience Ezra Jack Keats feel four-year-old funny girl Hairy Maclary Helen Oxenbury human humour illus illustrations Jack Judith Kerr language learning Lions paperback listener little books lives Lynley Dodd Margaret Mahy Methuen modern mother never night nursery rhymes parents Pat Hutchins Peter Spier picture books poems poetry published Puffin paperback read aloud reader revealed Shirley Hughes simple small children story successful sure tale teddybears tell theme things three-year-old tion Titch titles toddler two-year-old Viking Kestrel Viking Kestrel/Puffin paperback wonder words young children

About the author (1988)

Muriel Dorothy Butler was born in Grey Lynn, New Zealand on April 24, 1925. She received a diploma in education from the University of Auckland for her study of her severely handicapped granddaughter Cushla. This research was later adapted for publication as Cushla and Her Books. She was a children's book author and bookseller. She founded the Dorothy Butler Children's Bookshop in Auckland. She wrote children's books, non-fiction books, and two autobiographies. Her works include Come Back Ginger, My Brown Bear Barney, Seadog, What a Birthday!, Babies Need Books: Sharing the Joy of Books with Children from Birth to Six, Five to Eight: Vital Years for Reading, There Was a Time, and All This and a Bookshop Too. She received several awards during her lifetime including the Children's Book Circle Eleanor Farjeon Award in 1980 and the Margaret Mahy Award in 1992. In 1993, she was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to children's literature. She died on September 20, 2015 at the age of 90.

Bibliographic information

TitleBabies Need Books
Penguin books
AuthorDorothy Butler
Edition2, illustrated, reprint
PublisherPenguin, 1988
ISBN0140100946, 9780140100945
Length212 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Family & Relationships / Life Stages / Infants & Toddlers
Family & Relationships / Parenting / General
Literary Criticism / Children's & Young Adult Literature
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