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The Baby Tree

It’s one of those books that’s meant to help parents talk to their children about where babies come from.  The story opens with a young boy getting the news from his parents that they’re going to get a new baby.  Wondering just where they’ll be getting this baby from, he spends his day asking everyone he knows where babies come from, including his baby sitter, his teacher, his grandfather, and the mailman, but he’s not satisfied with any of their answers (babysitter says you plant a seed and a baby tree grows; grandpa says the stork leaves ’em on the doorstep; teacher says hospital; mailman says eggs).  So at the end of the day he asks his folks, who give him a basic clinical answer.  When he thinks over their explanation, he decides all the other folks had a piece of the puzzle except grandpa. The back of the book offers parents some suggested answers for when kids start asking for more details.  All in all, it’s a good tool for opening conversations between kids and adults, but be prepared for some parents who are not happy with information being available that they maybe aren’t ready to share yet.