Sweet Babe! is an adorable ode to all the grandmas and their grandkids by Robin Rosenthal. Released 18th Feb 2025 by Penguin Random House on their Tundra Books imprint, it's 32 pages and is available in hardcover and ebook formats.

This is *such* a sweet and exuberant little book. It's a celebration of the special alliance that exists between grandmothers and their grandkids. Fully illustrated with simple humorous drawings throughout (see cover); the drawings are full of movement and fun. Every grownup ever has played "where's the baby?!?", and this one brings the smiles.

The particular grandma in the story is Jewish, and the book is full of Yiddish words and sentence construction humorous and warm. The author has included a small glossary at the back, but the words won't give any troubles at all in context.

Five stars. It would be an excellent choice for public or school library acquisition, for home library, or for story-time/caregivers/babysitters/grandparents, etc.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

This book makes me think of a stereotypical Jewish grandma who is very excited to see their grandbaby. There are words in here the give reason for the glossary in the back, which is part of what makes me think Jewish grandma. This was just fun. That baby talk, happy to see them, their tummy, type of book. The illustrations are really fun. The catalog page tells how the book was illustrated, probably to stave off any idea this might be AI. I think this book was beautiful and fun and something kids would love to hear having read to them.