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Love You Head to Toe

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I can't wait to recommend this title to young families at my library and to purchase it for friends with new babies. The art of the baby shapes paired with sweet poems make this a fun and enjoyable book for a family to share.

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I received a complimentary PDF copy from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Absolutely gorgeous collage illustrations bring the babies and their families right off the page and the sparse, lyrical text complements it well without overpowering the art.

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This was a sweet book that would be perfect to read with a toddler or preschooler. I loved the diversity in this book and also the combination of both baby animals and people. The illustrations are engaging and beautifully done and very inviting for a younger audience. The words are simple and effective and share about the love and bond between parents and their babies, whether they are humans or animals. Thank you to NetGalley and Owlkids Books for a copy of this book. All opinions are my own.

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It's not a bad book, I'm just not crazy about it. I do like, however, the variety of skin tones we see throughout the story.

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This is the cutest book ever. I loved reading it and was just smiling the whole time. It will be a joy to read to my little niece. Also, it's so diverse. I loved the pictures and the way it flows will make it such an enjoyable read for any person to read to their kids. I dare you to read this and not hug your little kiddies afterwards. What a joy to read.

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Ashley Barron's Love You Head to Toe is a great, little book that show babies curling, crawling, eating, so much like different baby animals do. Good descriptions, although more for the adult than the toddler. Pictures however are so cute and I am certain children will enjoy looking at them. As they grow they will talk about what the baby and the animal is doing. Looks like it would be a great board book. This book is due to come out in mid-March, one I will certainly find for my grandbaby.
Many thanks to Owlkids Publishing and Netgalley for the opportunity to read this selection. Excellent!

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I was able to read Love You Head to Toe by Ashley Barron for free from Netgalley, the publisher and the author for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review. Thank you Netgalley and publishers for offering me this book!
I am a new mom and this book is great; I will be purchasing for my baby.
The book has delightful pictures that parents can read to infants, toddlers, children to convey to them how much they are loved. This is perfect for bedtime reading, tummy time and cuddle times.

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This book is so cute. I read it to my niece I believe she enjoyed the pictures. I can't to read more baby books like this to her.

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This is SO cute! Really, the babies in this book are so cute! The writing is mostly ok, but it works well enough with the art and the art is BEAUTIFUL. Beautifulllll I mean it. It’s like Faith Ringgold and Eric Carle decided to do a modern day take and be culturally relevant to 2018. Or something of a mish mash like that. I love all the different babies done in this collage style. It is so simple and yet has such amazing little details. Also, as someone who has been spending quite a bit of time with babies, all of the activities and comparisons with little animals (being curled like a hedgehog during diaper changing) are all super relatable. It’s nice to see current toys, baby tools ( in the bath, laying during tummy time) that make this book feel like its present day and not one of the outdated classic baby books (which are also great but not the same type of fresh mirror). I loved this one reading it alone, and I am excited to read it to a baby! I hope this book comes out in board book form so that it can be easily gifted... and then chewed on and read lots and lots with some of the babies in my life.

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This lucky baby's parent loves everything their baby does. In catchy rhyme, the parent compares each of baby's acts to a complimentary animal. The pictures and prose captures baby's day from morning to night. The pictures pair beautifully with the rhyming text. This is a great resource for parents to connect with their children and to covey their love, while at the same time providing connections to the animal world. Baby will want their parents to read to them about other frogs, hedgehogs, otters, ladybugs, kittens, hippopotamus, monkeys, turtles, kangaroos, chipmunks, penguin, bears, ducks, and sea stars. And the prose is sure to encourage babies to pretend they are each animal, too. Highly recommended!

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This is a delightful picture book for parents to read to their young children that conveys the love they have for them. Children of all hues are included, so there is inclusion. And each page has both animals and humans to compare them to.

All the daily things that go with taking care of a baby are included, including cleaning a babies bum.
<blockquote>You're my little hedgehog baby
When I wipe your bum.
Curled up in a hedgehog ball,
Until the cleanup's done.</blockquote>

Pictures are lovely, in what looks like cut paper collage.

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Recommended to parents and libraries, as a wonderful, inclusive book for all children.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.

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Thank you Netgalley for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Beautifully illustrated and creatively written. I loved the diversity of the babies and the sweet poem that accompanies each picture. Perfect for bedtime reading and cuddles!

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