"A playful celebration of babies and the families waiting for them to arrive."--

Twelve-year-old Jess O'Fines is resentful that she is expected to watch her baby niece in a Los Angeles hotel room while the rest of her dysfunctional family go off to a wedding rehearsal party -- but when Baby Ruby disappears, Jess is convinced she knows who kidnapped her and determined to get her back on her own, whatever the danger.

A baby encounters a variety of young animals, including a clever monkey, a hairy warthog, and a dusty lion cub, before discovering the most precious creature of all.

Gary the lizard is going to be a big brother, but he's not sure whether the new baby will be a boy or a girl.

A baby is delighted to experience his very first fart.

A new baby in the family can be a big change, but becoming an older sibling is an exciting and important moment in many people's lives. With the help of this engaging book, readers join along with Max and Kate as they help prepare for, and eventually meet, Max's new baby brother. The delightful storyline is accompanied by colorful illustrations and accessible text that allows readers to easily follow along, while also picking up on important skills...

When Peter finds out that his blue furniture is being painted pink for his new baby sister, he takes the last unpainted item, a chair, and runs away.

When Nicola gives birth at her best friend Olivia's seventeenth birthday party, the lives of five teenagers are changed forever--and in the months that follow Nicola, Olivia, Jonty, Ben, and Olivia's eleven-year-old sister, Alice, struggle with their changed relationships.

A very young boy tells his teddy bear about his mixed feelings over the premature birth of his new sibling, and his guilty resentment at the adult's preoccupation with the tiny baby.

Nicki and her friends spend their flight home from Ireland trying to figure out who is the mother of the baby left in their care and unknowingly convincing a young Irish woman not to have an abortion.