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Please, Baby, Please

by Spike Lee

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Publisher Comments:

Go back to bed,

baby please, baby, please.

Not on your HEAD,

baby baby baby, please!

Academy-Award nominated filmmaker Spike Lee and his wife, producer Tonya Lewis Lee, preset a behind-the-scenes look at the chills, spills, and unequivocal thrills of bringing up baby!

Vivid illustrations from celebrated artist Kadir Nelson evoke toddlerhood from sandbox to high chair to crib.

Synopsis:

Now in a board book edition, this exuberant bestseller by the Academy Award)-nominated director and his wife explodes with all the energy of childhood and concludes with the patience, understanding, and unconditional love of a parent. Full color.

About the Author

Spike Lee is one of the most prominent and influential media figures today. His films include the critically acclaimed School Daze; Academy Award nominee Do the Right Thing; Malcolm X; Clockers; and 25th Hour. Born in Atlanta, Spike attended Morehouse College and NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where he earned his master of fine arts degree in film production. Spike and his wife are the authors of Please, Baby, Please, their first picture book with SimonandSchuster. They live in New York City with their two children.Tonya Lewis Lee is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Virginia School of Law. As a children's television producer she has worked with Disney, Nickelodeon, and Noggin/The N, where she was the executive producer of the award-winning documentary I Sit Where I Want: The Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education and the critically acclaimed miniseries Miracle's Boys. She is also the author of Gotham Diaries, her first novel.Kadir Nelson is the widely acclaimed illustrator of many books for children, including Thunder Rose, written by Jerdine Nolen, which received a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award; Ellington Was Not a Street, written by Ntozake Shange, which received a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award; and Hewitt Anderson's Great Big Life, written by Jerdine Nolen, which won the 2005 Society of Illustrators Gold Medal. He is also the illustrator of Deloris Jordan and Roslyn M. Jordan's Salt in His Shoes and Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee's Please, Baby, Please and Please, Puppy, Please. Mr. Nelson lives with his family in San Diego, California.

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brookjp, January 2, 2010 (view all comments by brookjp)
please, baby, Please is funny and sweet and perfect. and by far the best book of the decade. at least the best board book, and that matters, too! if my 15 month old son could write, or talk, for that matter, he would tell you himself.
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boysmom, February 2, 2008 (view all comments by boysmom)
We love this book! My 2 year old has this book memorized and will read it alone, bring it to me to read and it shows up 20+ times a day...we need to get another just to replace it from the amount of use...."Don't eat the sand, please baby please"is the favorite page!
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780689834578
Author:
Nelson, Kadir
Publisher:
Aladdin Paperbacks
Illustrator:
Nelson, Kadir
Author:
Lewis Lee, Tonya
Author:
Nelson, Kadir
Author:
Lee, Tonya Lewis
Author:
Lewis-Lee, Tonya
Subject:
Children's 4-8 - Picturebooks
Subject:
Humorous Stories
Subject:
Ethnic - African American
Subject:
Bedtime Stories
Subject:
Babies
Subject:
Mother and child
Subject:
People & Places - United States - African-American
Copyright:
Edition Description:
B221
Publication Date:
March 2006
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
Baby - Kindergarten
Language:
English
Illustrations:
YES
Pages:
32
Dimensions:
9.92x10.00x.20 in. .34 lbs.
Children's Book Type:
Picture / Wordless
Age Level:
2-5

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