Describes babies and the things they do from the time they are born until their first birthday. - (Baker & Taylor)

With an irresistible rhyming text and delightfully endearing illustrations, an exuberant celebration of babies finds them playing, sleeping, crawling, making noise, and doing all the wonderful things babies do best. - (Baker & Taylor)

With an irresistible rhyming text and delightfully endearing illustrations, here is an exuberant celebration of playing, sleeping, crawling, and of course, very noisy babies doing all the wonderful things babies do best.

Every day, everywhere, babies are born. They're kissed and dressed and rocked and fed—and completely adored by the families who love them.

New York magazine's The Strategist chose Everywhere Babies as one of the "Best (Nonobvious) Baby Books to Bring to a Shower." As The Strategist stated: "Babies love looking at other babies, and this book is filled with all kinds of adorable ones." Plus the book's art is "really layered and thoughtful in representing all kinds of babies and parents." The Strategist's kids loved the "really pleasing cadence and rhyme structure."

Marla Frazee's popular books include two Caldecott Honor winners, the Clementine series, and The Boss Baby, among many others.

Booklist Reviews

Ages 2-4. This cheerful picture book celebrates the first year of life. The rhythmic, rhyming text hums along pleasantly, repeating the same four words at the beginning of each stanza, as in "Every day, everywhere, babies play games--peek-a-boo, pat-a-cake, this-little-piggy, roll-the-ball, ride-the-horse, jiggety-jiggy." Parents will appreciate that the art has not only multicultural representation but also includes a mother breastfeeding, along with the usual pictures of infants fed from bottles. The many moods, expressions, and body movements of babies are faithfully, gracefully rendered in the pencil drawings, and brightened with watercolors in rather muted hues. Small children will find plenty of action and detail to lure them into the illustrations, which will validate their experiences by showing familiar activities and equipment. A charming and sometimes amusing representation of babyhood. ((Reviewed March 1, 2001)) Copyright 2001 Booklist Reviews

Horn Book Guide Reviews

This board book edition contains the entire text and all the art from the original picture book. Though much reduced in size, the illustrations—finely detailed, amusing, and animated, with lots of white space around them—still manage to be appealing. While the book's best audience is too old for board books, caregivers may appreciate having a smaller, cheaper version around. Copyright 2005 Horn Book Guide Reviews.

Horn Book Guide Reviews

Cheerful rhythmic verse captions sunny portraits and vignettes celebrating babies in all their multiplicity. Babies are kissed, fed, or rocked in a wealth of domestic scenes whose affectionate good humor and adroit evocation of the universals of child care call to mind the vivid social commentaries of Shirley Hughes. Warm, funny, generous, this is a book that belongs in every library, and every lap. Copyright 2001 Horn Book Guide Reviews

Horn Book Magazine Reviews

Cheerful rhythmic verse captions sunny portraits and vignettes celebrating babies in all their multiplicity. The opening sets both the book's pattern and its all-encompassing tone: "Every day, everywhere, babies are born-fat babies, thin babies, small babies, tall babies, winter and spring babies, summer and fall babies." Of the ten newborns lined up on this first spread, each swathed in brightly patterned fabric, only one is of indisputably European ancestry; the others subtly suggest our country's diversity. Babies are kissed, fed, or rocked in a wealth of domestic scenes whose affectionate good humor and adroit evocation of the universals of child care call to mind the vivid social commentaries of Shirley Hughes-as does a lively sidewalk panorama of babies "in backpacks, in front packs, in slings, and in strollers, in car seats, and bike seats, and on Daddy's shoulders," an occasion that also suggests how many differing family conformations can now be found, including pairs of moms or dads ambling comfortably among the more traditional sort. Frazee's nicely varied use of spreads and vignettes is crowned (near the end of both the book and the infants' first year) with a film-like sequence of one toddler's early venture on two legs-the cocky first steps, the lurches and tumbles, and the triumphant chortle in the last of thirteen images of the same child. "Every day, everywhere, babies are walking-one step, another, they fall down and then...pick themselves up and try it again." Warm, funny, generous, this is a book that belongs in every library, and every lap. Copyright 2001 Horn Book Magazine

Kirkus Reviews

Meyers and Frazee play a happy, well-tuned concerto on every reader's genetically preprogrammed heartstrings with this long parade of babies: swaddled, sleepy, bright-eyed, screaming with joy and/or rage, being fed, nuzzled, carried, and generally loved by a parental cadre that, unobtrusively, will raise no diversity issues. Frazee (Harriet, You'll Drive Me Wild, 2000, etc.) is even better at depicting babies than Jan Ormerod (if that's possible), capturing in dozens of stubby figures everything from those funny-looking tufts of hair topping rounded or lumpy-looking heads to the utter intensity with which babies express their feelings or explore the bright world around them. Meyers's rhymed captions carry the message that every day, everywhere, babies are born, kissed, dressed, played with, and nurtured: everywhere they make noise, like toys—and, when the time comes, turn into toddlers. The text and pictures make beautiful music together, and like babies themselves, this composition is irresistible. (Picture book. 4-8) Copyright 2001 Kirkus Reviews

Publishers Weekly Reviews

With its rounded corners and its cast of emotive infants and loving, diverse parents, Everywhere Babies by Susan Meyers, illus. by Marla Frazee, will quickly become a nursery staple. PW called it "a charming paean to the adoration (and accessories) that families lavish on their offspring." Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Publishers Weekly Reviews

"Every day, everywhere, babies are born," writes Meyers (Hello Jenny), as Frazee (The Seven Silly Eaters) presents the first in a series of wry, elegant watercolor vignettes: a row of multiracial, swaddled newborns whose expressions range from "How did I get here?" to utter boredom. The pages that follow prove that ministering to babies is all-pervasive as well. "Every day, everywhere," as each spread announces in hand-lettered display type, babies are either collecting kisses, getting schlepped, exhausting their parents (a state that Frazee portrays with knowing and hilarious precision), toddling or growing. Rhyming text in smaller type elaborates on each theme: e.g., to "Every day, everywhere, babies are carried " Meyers adds, "in backpacks, in front packs, in slings, and in strollers, in car seats, and bike seats, and on Daddy's shoulders." As Meyers builds to the expected coda (babies being "loved for trying so hard, for traveling so far, for being so wonderful... just as they are!"), it's Frazee's canny wit that tips the work away from sentimentality to evoke a wide range of emotions. A charming paean to the adoration (and accessories) that families lavish on their offspring. Ages 2-5. (Apr.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

School Library Journal Reviews

PreS-Young listeners will appreciate this gentle rhyme that portrays babies with their families and friends being drawn into everyday activities. The lilting text recites the eating, sleeping, and leisure habits of a winsome cast of multicultural tykes, but, most of all, it impresses on readers how much they are loved. Expressive, animated pencil-and-watercolor paintings depict a full range of infant motions and emotions that bring this ensemble to life. The clear double-page spreads usually contain one large or several smaller scenes against lots of white space. The facial expressions in several scenes are particularly captivating and endearing. This delightful homage to the youngest among us should be a hit at toddler storytimes, and the book will be great for individual sharing because there is a certain amount of very basic seek-and-find potential fun to be had in poring over the illustrations. Everywhere Babies should be in every preschool collection.-Rosalyn Pierini, San Luis Obispo City-County Library, CA Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.