This delightful sequel to best-selling God Gave Us You affirms a parent’s unchanging love for a child and helps little ones accept, appreciate, and love their new siblings.
Now that Mama polar bear has another baby in her tummy, Little Cub is bursting with curiosity. “Why do we need a new baby?” she asks. “If we don’t like the new baby, can we send it back?”
“Will you forget me when the new baby comes?”
Gently and lovingly, Mama and Papa assure their firstborn that the new baby is a gift from God they want very much, just as Little Cub was–and still is. “God gave us you. Now he’s given us two!”
Around here we have no shyness about getting excited to read books about adding a new baby. While part of me wishes we had books like this to explain before OrangeBlossom was born, now with AppleBlossom at 30 months old and almost six months of adoring her little sister... our AppleBlossom is very alert and attentive to learning more about this big sister business. I love [a:Lisa Tawn Bergren|73754|Lisa Tawn Bergren|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1299528643p2/73754.jpg] in every genre she tackles and especially-so in her [b:God Gave Us So Much|8075430|God Gave Us So Much|Lisa Tawn Bergren|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1271892594s/8075430.jpg|12789310] series. (Have you heard my excitement over the new board books?! [b:God Gave Us You|11160299|God Gave Us You|Lisa Tawn Bergren|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1311189672s/11160299.jpg|866941] and [b:God Gave Us Love|11598343|God Gave Us Love|Lisa Tawn Bergren|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1327927610s/11598343.jpg|6826663])
It is no surprise to me that [b:God Gave Us Two|843546|God Gave Us Two|Lisa Tawn Bergren|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1327972992s/843546.jpg|829075] is a new favorite. In this book using as always incredible illustrations from [a:Laura J. Bryant|240456|Laura J. Bryant|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1319467331p2/240456.jpg] the mama and papa explain to their little cub how important and precious she is and about the new one that is an addition and not a replacement for her. This a great affirmation and since we added it to our library a few days ago we've read it more than a dozen times at AppleBlossom's request!
*Thanks to the Blogging for Books program for providing a copy for review.*
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