Brown Sugar Babies - by Charles R Smith (Board Book)

About the Book

Illustrations and rhyming test describe babies in terms of different sweet and tasty brown treats.

Book Synopsis

Bubbling brown sugarbubbles Baby's belly.Syrupy sweet sticky centershakes like a bowl of jelly.
Oooh, baby! This board book is sweet enough to eat. Infants, toddlers, and their older siblings will drool as they rejoice in the beauty of brown babies. Here, carob cherubs show all their true colors--everything from peanut butter to honey to cinnamon spice. Expressive photos and a mouthwatering rhyme encourage babies to find splendor in the many hues of their own skin.

Review Quotes

"Enchanting. . . . A rich, heavenly treat."--School Library Journal

"Toddlers will pore over these images again and again. No candy is sweeter than these scrumptious babies in all of their delicious colors."--Kirkus Reviews

About the Author

Charles R. Smith Jr. is an award-winning author, photographer, and poet with over thirty books to his credit. His awards include a Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration for his photographs accompanying the Langston Hughes poem, My People, and a Coretta Scott King Honor Author Award for his biography on Muhammad Ali, Twelve Rounds to Glory. He grew up in California and attended the Brooks Institute of Photography. Charles currently lives with his family in Poughkeespie, New York.