Note: I received a digital review copy through NetGalley. ( )

diverse picture book (world cultures, new baby for older siblings?; for preschoolers 3 and up)
* prominently features diverse characters: families from around the world, babies being carried by various family members from what can be interpreted as single-mother households, grandma- or grandpa-as-caretaker households (grandpa is wearing a turban and the little girl sibling is wearing a headscarf), single dad (in a wheelchair) households, adoptive auntie/uncle households--or they can be interpreted in the nuclear family way. The final spread shows a biracial family.
* woulld work for preschool storytime -- the text is too long for toddlers, but this might work for a "new baby coming" theme to prep kids for a younger sibling, or it could work well as a one-on-one readaloud. All of the caretakers say "upsy daisy" when they lift their little ones up, which seems both quaintly cute but also overly generic. I guess I'm ok with it, though doing different voices can be tricky because accents are hard to do correctly and probably best avoided... something to consider. ( )

This is a great book depicting various family makeups as well as diversity. Using babies and how they are carried, they show families from around the world. The illustrations are wonderful. They are done by cutting and pasting layers of paper and it makes them look three-dimensional. This is a good book for family libraries as well as kits in a school library when teaching about diversity and multiculturalism. The publisher generously provided me with a copy of this book via netgalley. ( )

This is a sweet book about how different cultures can carry their children. It can help students with cultural diversity. This can open up conversations about how they do things at home. ( )