Disclosure: I received this book to review in exchange for sharing my honest opinion.
I admit I dread having to explain the whole truth about where babies come from to my kids but for now they are fine with simple answers. The book The Baby Tree
Sooner or later, every child will ask, Where do babies come from? Answering this question has never been this easy or entertaining! Join a curious little boy who asks everyone from his babysitter to the mailman, getting all sorts of funny answers along the way, before his parents gently set him straight.
New from award-winning author and illustrator Sophie Blackall comes a beautiful picture book full of playful details to help answer the age-old-question..where do babies come from?
My kids (Ages 2, 5 and 7 years old) love the story and I have read the book so much I can recite it practically. They think the idea of a baby tree is hysterical! Then there is a picture of babies waddling out of the hospital that looks silly as well! I really like the questions though in the back of the book because it can be hard to find the right and appropriate words to use and it gives great wording for the questions. It explains that kids around 6 to 8 years old want more details on what happens and where it comes from! As a parent you can use their wording as a whole or guidance. It even answers questions about twin, adoption, and babies with two moms or two dads. I’d recommend this book to any parent whether you have one curious child (aren’t they all) or even as a gift for a child who is going to be a big brother or sister.
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Natalie J Vandenberghe says
The first thing that came to mind was the traditional “stork brought the baby”
TawndaM says
I’ve heard The Stork, growing in the garden, I’ve even heard people saying Santa brought them… 😉
mary diehl says
I have kids saying that they come from the tooth fairy. lol, not sure why except I figure they was told that.
Leela says
I’ve heard a lot of stork stories.
Deborah says
I have only heard “babies come from the Cabbage Patch” and “the stork brings babies”. lol
Tee Mcc says
Babies come from santa
Patti Hess says
My Mom use to say baby’s came from the Cabbage Patch
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Lea says
The stork brings the down from the sky.
sandra says
my son asked me yesterday what adoption was….
Kim Reid says
I’ve always heard the stork story when I was growing up!
Stephanie W says
I heard babies come from storks.
Teresa Thompson says
The stork of course.
Gina H. says
From the cabbage patch.
Nancy says
Some old, old stories were that storks delivered babies or that doctors brought them in their big black medical bags.
Yolanda says
My mother told me and my sisters the truth and I do the same to my children.
JLin says
from a rock
Patricia says
Babies grow in tummies when you eat watermelon seeds.
laurie nykaza says
I heard the stork was always the joke
jillian warner says
beans
Sue Hull says
I told my nieces that babies are from Jesus and he puts them in mommies tummy. So far it’s worked b/c they haven’t asked me since. My daughter had my granddaughter 3 wks ago and my youngest niece says I’m going to tell her Jesus put her in her mommies tummy. So sweet. Thank you for the cute giveaway 🙂
kelly willis says
swollowed a watermelon seed lol
Tiffany Schmidt says
The stork of course. He even brings animal babies, ie Dumbo!
June S. says
We were always told when we were kids that the stork brought us. I never believed it though!
sandra davis says
my parents always told me that the stork brought the babies.
Colleen Maurina says
My grandson told me that you go to the hospital to get a baby!
stacey b says
My parents also gave me the boring old Stork story…
erin dear (@mummadear) says
I always thought the stork brought babies.
Kaycee @ My Crafty Zoo says
My Mom told me her horse kicked a rock and she found me underneath it. 😀 When I was a kid she would point out which rock it was when we’d go up a certain place. LOL
Linda Madden says
I was told the storm brought babies. Don’t know what that was but I believed it. 😉
KATIE KLEIN says
My mom has always told me that a stork brings the babies.
Kristen says
I heard you find them in the cabbage patch.
Em Ma says
I’d heard that the stork brings babies
vickie couturier says
we were told to find them in a cabbage patch
Maralea says
I have always heard the stork delivers babies.
Alesha OL says
Of course,the stork, a nest, your tummy
Jessica says
When I was little I knew babies came out of their mommy’s tummies. I just figured they were living in there the whole time and just started growing when they were ready to come out.
Terra Heck says
I’ve jokingly told my kids they’ve come from the Cabbage Patch fields. Thanks.
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Elena G says
My parents used to tell me” the stork story”. Now I am at the point when I need to tell my son the true story but I am kind of uncomfortable, I will anyway though. This books looks very cute!
Inga Seno says
My cousin when she was young she used to say that daddy buys seeds and gives one to mommy to eat and from that seed baby starts growing in the belly. But funniest was when adults ask her if mommy can buy seeds too,she said that they selling them just for daddies! 🙂
April Brenay says
I went to the cabbage patch hospital as a kid and forever thought that was how babies came from 🙂
Kimberly says
My little sister thought that babies come out of your belly button. My little girl hasn’t had any crazy hypothesis just yet. She knew her baby brother was in my tummy, but didn’t ask how he got there!
June Ebinger says
BABIES ARE BORN IN THE CABBAGE PATCH
Meghan McGrath says
I was always told they came from when two people loved each other so much and kissed then shortly after they would have a baby!
Beanybopp says
I heard the stork and cabbage patch stories
shelly leatham says
Grandma told us babies were found under the cabbage leaves……
Susan W says
I always heard that babies were delivered by a stork.
Darlene Sullins says
My mom use to tell me that babies came from kissing guys… lol!
Denise Taylor-Dennis says
I think when I was growing up the stork story was still popular.
abedabun dawn says
I remember hearing a woman tell her kid that she found him on the rail road track lol. At the time it upset me but then realized the kid knew she was joking.
Alona Y says
My step-mother was the one to explain this to me when I was really young, all I can remember is her telling me that both mom and dad slept through it and didn’t know it happened! Weird!
brittany says
my niece said babies come from your belly button when it explodes 🙂
Julie Lee says
Babies come from lots of LOVE!
ken ohl says
my grandmother used the stork story
Sus says
From under a mushroom.
Nannypanpan says
My son thought women sort of throw them up to get them out
Kristan Price says
My mum always told me babies were delivered by storks.
Melissa Stover says
I was told Kids were found under rocks when I was little lol, I believed that for a long time hahaha
Melanie S says
My parents told me that they would get my baby brother from the baby store
Anne Perry says
The stork and mama’s tummy
siawvay says
someone told me babies come from heaven when I was a little girl