Where Babies Come Frm

by Margaret Sheffield

Book Overview

Simple text and pictures explain intercourse, growth in the womb, sexual differences in male and female, and birth of the baby. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394484827
• ISBN13: 9780394484822
• Release Date: April 1973
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 33 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.8" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Beautiful images and simple text

This book is sadly out of print, but if you can find it, you must get it for your child. It was the book I had as a youngster, and happily, I found it for my six year old daughter to explain the mysteries of conception, childbirth, the difference between baby boys, baby girls, boys, girls, men and women. The book is illustrated in a beautiful painterly style. I remember looking at the images for a long time as a young girl. They are graphic, but not crude. They are not comical, or cartoonish, as in some "birds and bees" books. There is a picture of a nude man, and then a picture of a nude woman. There is a picture of a pregnant woman, "cut away" so you can see the baby inside. There is also a picture of a woman giving birth, but not in a scary way, but in a loving way. Also, a woman nursing a baby. Discussions of intercourse are limited to things like, the man getting close to the woman and putting his (male organ) inside her v--. There is not a graphic explanation of sex. Girls bodies are explained as "not working as women's bodies work". This is a good beginning book for children ages 5-8. Gives all the basic information and leaves plenty of room for further parental discussion.

What I have been looking for

We actually found this book in a used bookstore. I am so glad to have found it. My girls, 4 and 2, keep asking me how the baby got into my belly, and how it looks now and so on. THis book goes into all of it, and actually shows a picture of the baby being born. They also ask me how the baby is going to come out. This book is great.

A must have for parents

This is the most artful, beautiful and straight forward book I have found for helping my children understand the miracle of conception and birth. It is simple and gorgeous! By this book!