I like the art in the book but I don't love the plot. I feel like it's one that will mean more for parents than for kids. Kids don't relate to the frustration of a parent dealing with their noisy, persistent kid.

This was very cute and funny! Many parents are amazed at the sheer...bounty...of words that can be produced by one small child once they really dial in. This book illustrates that concept in a fun, sweet way. There is a lot of repetition in the text, so this would be an enjoyable practice book for new readers. The reader and kids can have a great time imagining their own interpretation of the endless squeaks and what baby mouse might be trying to say. There are also lots of lovely animals to admire.

This would be a great book for pre-K and early elementary and would be a good addition to school and classroom libraries.

Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review!

Another book that was also as true as it could be, Baby Squeaks by Anne Hunter seems to have hit the target head-on, however. There's very little reading taking place in this book, but wow do the illustrations do a lot of the talking/explaining. Baby Mouse used to not know any words, but once they learned some words? They never stopped squeaking. Ever. So, one day when Mama Mouse just needs a tiny bit of quiet, she puts Baby Mouse outside the doorstop, still talking. And Baby Mouse finds some new friends to regale with their oratory.

It's a simple, humorous book - particularly for anybody who has got their own chatterbox at home. It can also give a little nudge to the "and sometimes Mama needs a tiny bit of peace and quiet or else she feels like she's gonna lose it" explanations. The words sure do crowd things in their tiny home, and that's a good visual for something small kids might have a harder time understanding. 5 stars for this one.

Thanks to Penguin Random House Canada/Tundra Books and NetGalley for this free ARC in return for my honest review.
Well, I usually enjoy books from this publisher but this one is a puzzler to me. Why? Well it is about a little mouse that did not talk and then he eventually learns how to talk (squeak) and drives everyone crazy with his incessant chatter. Eventually the mother tells the baby mouse to go for a walk and talk to someone else. He does that and now mom is worried when she does not hear his voice.. The story does have a happy ending.
What mother would just tell their child to do something like this? If this is cute, it misses the mark. I am not a professional writer but I think the author could have resolved the constant chatter problem in a much better way.
The dialogue is mostly squeaks and while the illustrations are fine they cannot save this book.
2.** is the most I can give this effort.

Thank you #Netgalley and Penguin Random House Canada for the Arc of 'Baby Squeaks'.

First, I'm biased. I am obsessed with illustrated mice, mouse stories, anything with a cute depiction of a mouse anywhere on a book cover. I was sold before I even got to the story!

The illustrations are lovely, utilizing a minimalistic color palette in a modern, pastoral way. The humor is well depicted in the use of speech bubbles which grow in size and cannot contain the constant squeaking of baby mouse. The interactions depicted between the baby mouse and baby animals are humorous. Where the story fell short was in a lack of plot, or at least the lack of a plot that might be interesting to children. Parents and adults would surely understand the mother mouse's perspective--tired of the constant squeaking and needing a break!--but I'm not sure it would resonate with young readers. Sometimes this works if there are multiple layers of interpretation at play, but that doesn't seem to be the case here. Ultimately, the illustrations are charming, and there are funny and heartwarming moments for readers.

Became a Hunter fan after laughing out loud with Where’s Baby, this one provides more chuckles: mama needing some quiet, the fawn/doe/deer, that pause for a breath/hug. The conclusion shows Baby is STILL talking and mama having a lie down against the tree base. A fun read.

Mama Mouse is so excited by Baby Mouse’s first words — until Baby Mouse talks and talks and talks and Mama needs some peace and quiet…

This is definitely a book written with parents in mind rather than children. I doubt children will understand the point or see the humor that parents will. I can see some parents finding this book humorous for a one-time-read.

The illustrations are lovely and I really like the typewriter-style speech bubbles. But the book lacks substance and could leave a talkative child with negative feelings about themselves due to Mama’s frustrations.

Thank you, Tundra Books and Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers, for the advance reading copy.

First of all, I appreciate the artstyle and the fluffy characters. I would say the storybook seems a little too short and incomplete.

I would say it's a storybook about a young mother trying to get a break in between amidst her busy schedule of looking after her baby who is quite talkative and just couldn't keep quiet.

I would prefer a storybook with a basic storyline with a proper ending even if it's a young readers' picturebook.

Absolutely adorable illustrations with a cute story to match! This will be great for toddler story times.

This was a cute story with nice illustrations, but the story doesn't really go anywhere. I would have liked the mother mouse and/or the baby mouse to have learned a lesson by the end of the story but the baby mouse just...squeaks.

Thank you to the author, Penguin Random House Canada and NetGalley, for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I loved the illustrations in this book - but everything else fell short for me. The text is fairly basic and easy to understand. The basic premise had a lot of potential, but sadly did not use any of it. There is no humor, no message or moral - parents will identify with Mama Mouse and how the constant chatter of her little one gets on her nerves, but children will not understand why Mama Mouse was irritated. Apart from squeaking while reading this aloud, there wasn't much I could do with it and I found the ending particularly disappointing.

This could have been so good! But it fails to deliver.

Mamma Mouse is very happy to have a baby. When she hears her baby’s first words, she is excited. But soon she realises that her baby simply doesn’t shut up and keeps squeaking all day long. In hope of getting some peace and quiet, she sends him out of the house to be with his other animal friends. Baby Mouse babbles and squeaks with every single one of them until they either run away or fall asleep. At the end, Mamma Mouse finds the house too quiet and goes in search of Baby to get him back.

Every parent will be able to identify with Mamma Mouse and how, at times, the constant chatter of our little ones can get on our nerves. However, instead of making optimum use of this comical paradox, the book just ends up with the bare minimum. There’s not much humour except if you make squeaky noises while reading the book aloud to your child. There’s no message or moral at all. In fact, parents will find it a tad more humorous than kids as the latter simply wont understand why Mamma Mouse was so irritated.

The text is quite basic and easy to understand. The illustrations are good enough but not mind-blowing.

I feel like there was so much potential wasted in this book. It was overly simplified. The end was especially disappointing – doesn’t Mamma Mouse want to speak a single word with her Baby even when he wasn’t home all day??? Basically, other than the potential squeaks you can indulge in with your little one while reading this, I didn’t find much else that would make me recommend this book.

My thanks to Penguin Random House Canada, Tundra Books, and NetGalley for the ARC of “Baby Squeaks”. This review is voluntary and contains my honest opinion about the book.

I received an arc of this title from NetGalley for an honest review. When Baby mouse starts to speak, he never stops.

I was so pleasantly surprised at how much I loved this book! It is such a sweet, funny, and relatable story that I think anyone who has ever been around little ones can relate to!

I really loved Anne Hunter's book "Where's Baby?" so I was super excited to read her latest one. It's funny, but there's not much of a story here. In this one, the Baby squeaks until Mama needs a rest. Baby visits a bunch of other animals and then Mama comes to find it. Not much plot.

Baby Squeaks centres around a mouse family and their baby who has just learned to talk, and won't shut up! When Mummy mouse needs a little quiet, she leaves the baby outside the nest and thus begins their journey of making new friends and returning back to the home.

The illustrations are so delightful and cute, they were my favourite part of the book. The book is incredibly short and simplistic, with simplistic terminology and a simple sentence structure. But I quite enjoyed that aspect, as I would recommend this book for ages 0-5. However, one thing I would have liked to see is a deeper narrative, a clearer message or clearer meaning behind this book.

Rated: 3 stars

This is an intriguing little book. The illustrations are almost monochrome but are nevertheless beautifully drawn and interesting. The mice reminded me a little of some of the characters from some of Kevin Henkes's books. I enjoyed the speech bubble concept that runs through the book (full of squeaks!), and I think children would get a kick out of that as well.

The story is very simple and may be a little too simple for some audiences, but the message was cute and I think some children would find it appealing. I would certainly use this book in an early years' setting - probably either preschool or kindergarten.

This book was very simple with few words on each page, as a children’s book sometimes is. I found the illustrations were very cute, but I thought the point of this book wasn’t very clear. Still a great read though!

Hahaha, this book was great! It reminds me so much of my daughter. She went on a trip with my parents and after the 8 hours drive back, my dad handed my daughter over and said "She didn't stop talking once!"

I love the mostly black and white illustrations and the speech bubbles.

A sweet story about a mother mouse and her baby and how one’s personality is uniquely their own—for better and for worse!