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Baby's energy knows no bounds--and poor Mommy is "Tired and frumpy / Grouchy chumpy / Oh, what a grump!" After a day of cleaning up Baby's concoction of squishy applesauce-ketchup gravy and reading story after story to her sleepless child, who can blame Mommy for "slumping, crumpled, sleeping / Fast asleep in her big chair"? Certainly not Baby, "Smart, good Baby," who finally climbs into... More

Baby's energy knows no bounds--and poor Mommy is "Tired and frumpy / Grouchy chumpy / Oh, what a grump!" After a day of cleaning up Baby's concoction of squishy applesauce-ketchup gravy and reading story after story to her sleepless child, who can blame Mommy for "slumping, crumpled, sleeping / Fast asleep in her big chair"? Certainly not Baby, "Smart, good Baby," who finally climbs into his sleeping mother's lap for that long-delayed nap.

The rhythm and sounds of Janet S. Wong's text are what will appeal to small children; the subject matter is for all the exhausted parents of the world. Wong's tender rhymes reflect the conflicting emotions of the worn-out mom, as she sets her baby in his crib and "Drums on Baby's rump pum pum pum! / Rubs his back / Plump arms / Plump legs" and tiptoes out--only to hear the cries of her awake-again loved one. John Wallace shows his own expertise in the field of weary parenting, in his thoroughly delightful watercolors depicting a frazzled mother and her son. (Baby to preschool... and sleepy, grumpy parents) --Emilie Coulter

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