The New Baby Paperback – 30 May 2008

There are some positives to this book. My daughter loves the stickers and it explains how much attention and sleep a baby needs. It also depicts breastfeeding. However, I found it be full of gender stereotypes. There is a line that say something like "mum is really busy with the baby so dad and the children must help her" No sorry, dad has slightly more responsibility than the children do with regards to his baby. Also the little girl is always depicted as either caring for her doll or the baby while the little boy is playing about oblivious to the baby. The only interaction we see of him with the baby is when he snaps into protector mode and chases the pets away from the sleeping baby. Thats just some of the examples that annoy me. This isn't the message I want to give to my little one about families and roles within families.

We bought this to help get our daughter ready for her baby sister to arrive but in the end didn’t use it. The pictures are very old fashioned and the images of the mum in hospital were a bit daunting - not scary - just the way they were a bit old fashioned and a bit formal. Lots of stickers which is good but I wasn’t what we wanted. I think it needs updating. I wouldn’t recommend it.

We love this sticker book!I bought this for my 2 year old to help prepare him for the arrival of a sibling. The story is pretty much the same as the New Baby book, with a few added sentences. Unlike some other Usbourne sticker books where you just stick the stickers wherever you like, this book contains the story, with clear guidance as to where the stickers should go. Amongst the text are line drawings to replace a word, for example 'cat'; you then find the sticker with the cat and stick it over the image of the cat. My child enjoyed lining up the sticker perfectly with the image. Although the pages aren't super glossy, they are smooth enough to allow some repositioning of the stickers. My sone enjoyed this much more than the Farmyard Tales sticker book, which contains no story.Now that the sticker book is finished, my child still wants the story read to him, unlike in other completed sticker books where the books would just get chucked into the recycling.The story itself is very sweet and provided us with lots of areas for discussion, which all helped to prepare my child for his new sibling.We enjoyed this so much that I will buy it again if we have another child, to help prepare the second child for a baby sibling.

Such a high quality product and great for giving some quality time and attention to older brother or sister when new arrival comes. We’d borrowed the book from the library and liked it so much that we ordered this. Only downside (depending on age of the child) is that the stickers need to be stuck in conjunction with reading the story rather than sticker ‘free for all’ which works better with a 2 year old but you can work around it - only reason I wouldn’t give 5 stars

We got this book for our almost 4 year old son to help him prepare for the arrival of our new baby. He loved reading the pages with us at bedtime & it encouraged us to elaborate more about why would happen when baby arrives like mummy going to hospital, feeding baby, where baby would sleep etc. He also loved filling in the new words he’d learnt when we got to each sticker so it really helped his vocabulary. Even when he stickers were in, he still enjoyed having this read to him.Only thing worth noting is that baby in the book was a girl. We didn’t know what we were having (& turned out we were having a boy). When I read the book to him, I therefore didn’t read ‘she’ but substituted for ‘baby’ so we didn’t confuse him.

Fab little sticker book I bought for my daughter as we’re expecting baby no 2, it’s great to help explain to them what’s going to happen. Definitely recommend.

This book was a bit disappointing, was hoping my son would get something from this but he didn’t, just enjoyed the stickers. Not much content to it.

It's a good overview of what to kind of expect. Aimed at ages 5 years and below, and maybe SEN too. My child is a bit old for this, but will give it a go anyways.