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School Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 2004
PreS-Gr 1 Guthrie's song is brought to life by Frazee's gouache illustrations, which tell a story all their own. A guitar-playing narrator and his younger siblings sit together on their front porch, as the boy tries to explain where babies come from. The text reads, "I guess little babies come along/just about any way they can./Cars, trucks, tractors, airplanes, /any way they can come." In subsequent illustrations, the children dash off, wait for a train togeth...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2004
This one's all about the pictures. Guthrie's folksong about one possible way babies might be delivered is buoyant but disjointed; Frazee turns it into a coherent, child-appealing picture book. A young boy with a guitar boards the new baby train, accompanying some dozen infants heading for their new homes. The babies, as we've come to expect from Frazee (see Susan Meyers's Everywhere Babies, rev. 5/01), are nicely differen...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
