The book I chose is called Everywhere Babies. It was written by Susan Meyers and illustrated by Marla Frazee in 2001. They are both mothers and have a lot of experience in the subject of babies.
The book is a description about babies and what they do from age to their first birthday.
I originally purchased this book because it shows all races, gender, and age blended together in a happy community. The narrative in this book shows that the characters, babies, are born, fed, cuddled, played with, kissed, dressed, rocked, carried, and have the same basic physical abilities, regardless of race. It does this well. It represents families in their everyday ways. Everyone is dressed similarly to the style of today. They are wearing casual attire.
It depicts people of all races well. Almost everyone has distinctive features.
I did find some stereotyping. The grandmothers and old people were all very old and mostly overweight.
I also noticed that the two African American mothers had twins. I found this interesting because statistically, African American have more twins fraternally. (Berk, 55)
The lifestyles and everyday activities were non stereotyped. It has a picture of a father feeding a baby, a grandfather feeding a baby, as well as a mother. It even has a picture of a baby being breastfed.
I noticed that the same consistent standard of success in class of across cultures . They depict this by giving all the characters a general amount of materialistic things.
I did notice that the parents, when shown together, are from the same race. They are not interracial. With the exception of the same sex couples.
This book has a great page with a chaotic pool scene. I love this page the most. I work with babies and this is a normal scenario when having a pool day. Everyone is in their own little world. Some babies are having a great time, while others are not. A Caucasion baby wants out of the pool so she is reaching for help. An African American hand is offering assistance. Then, on the other side of the pool, an African American baby is falling out of or over in the pool and a Caucasion adult is resolving her conflict by helping her up. It again shows a blend of races coming together.
Works Cited.
Berk, Laura E. Infants, Children, and Adolescents. Boston. Allyn & Bacon. Print.
This looks like a great book! I loved that you put mamy photos of the pages you talked about throughout the analysis. This helped us visualize what you were talking about and backed up your opinion. I too liked how it showed many different races and families blended as one community. And the fact that you said not just females were taking care of the babies!
ReplyDeleteThese seems like a Great book for children. I want to get it for when I start teaching and when I have children of my own. The only bad part was the old grandparents and in my family both me and my fiance have younger parents so that is one sterotyoe that stands out to me now.
ReplyDeleteHello, I have to say, I never read this book but I love it by reading your analysis. I was inspired by the book because I liked how it blends races together. I liked how the white baby was helping the African American baby and I also enjoyed that mothers were helping out as well. I feel that this book can be presented to children at school because it is a great way to teach children that there is no difference between them. I enjoy many of the pictures you have posted because it helps me understand the book better. Thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteYour report is nicely done. I have this book myself and I find it delightful! I enjoyed your usage of photos to emphasize your points. The illustrations add significant strength to this book.
ReplyDeleteI also enjoyed that you used the illustrations to guide us through your analysis. You did a wonderful job! This would be a great book to show diversty through families.
ReplyDeleteThis is really an amazing book. This book shows us that everyone, people from different races can communicate and be happy together. This is an amazing book to read for all children because I think it may teach them that all people are equal, and no matter what is the skin color, they all can be amazing friends for you! And by the way, great job on your analysis.
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