Synopses & Reviews
This charming book, really two books back-to-back, shows preschoolers that mommies and daddies are equally important and equally special. Five different irresistible animal pairs demonstrate that mommies can teach you how to ride a bicycle, give you a piggyback ride, sew a button on your teddy bear, and much more. Then the book can be flipped over to show five daddies doing the same things, in their own way. The text, identical in both sections, is short and simple, allowing the illustrations to speak volumes. Children from any kind of family will be able to relate to the familiar domestic scenes portrayed with plenty of whimsy and warmth.
Synopsis
Daddies can do lots of things, like bake you a birthday cake, play with you in the park, and take you trick-or-treating. But what do they do best?
Mommies can do lots of things, like teach you how to ride a bike, sew a loose button on your teddy bear, and read you a cozy bedtime story. But what do they do best? The answer is made perfectly clear in this irresistible celebration of parents and the everyday things they do.
Synopsis
Daddies can do lots of things, like bake you a birthday cake, play with you in the park, and take you trick-or-treating. But what do they do best?
Mommies can do lots of things, like teach you how to ride a bike, sew a loose button on your teddy bear, and read you a cozy bedtime story. But what do they do best? The answer is made perfectly clear in this irresistible celebration of parents and the everyday things they do.
About the Author
Laura Numeroff is the author of the best-selling modern classic If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and the popular What Mommies Do Best and its sequels. She lives in Los Angeles, California.Lynn Munsinger was born in Massachusetts. She has illustrated more than ninety books for children -- bringing Wodney Wat, Tacky the Penguin, a porcupine named Fluffy, the Teeny Tiny Ghost, and Ogden Nash's Custard the Dragon to charming life. Her watercolor illustrations have been praised for their "classic quality" (Publishers Weekly) and "mix of wry humor and affection" (Booklist).