We Sang You Home by Richard Van Camp, illustrations by Julie Flett.
Orca Books, 2016.
Board book, 26 pages.
This lyrical book is the story of a family – two parents, and the baby they sang home and love.
The book starts with a couple on a blanket in the forest, singing. Then they are joined by a tiny baby as they go about their day. Baby sleeps and snuggles and grows teeth and crawls and gardens with mom and even walks until eventually they are back in the forest singing with baby.
The text is a poem or a prayer written in the second person, which normally I dislike, but works perfectly for this book intended to be read from parent to child. There are two lines on the left page of every two-page spread except the final one, which ends with the final picture across from the copyright page.
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