Passing this on from a library listserv:
“An author has written to me through one of my children’s book blogs and I am hoping to help him find children’s books about children who are jealous of the new baby in the family. I found a book called Geraldine’s Baby Brother on WorldCat, but do you know of any others? Books with non-human characters would be a plus for this author, but I’ll still take human characters as well. ”
Here were the suggestions offered; do you have others? Share them in the comments section!
- Julius, The Baby of the World, by Kevin Henke
- Darcy and Gran Don’t Like Babies, by Jane Cutler
- Mail Harry to the Moon, by Robie Harris
- When the New Baby Comes, I’m Moving Out, by Martha Alexander
- Nobody Asked Me If I Wanted a Baby Sister, by Martha Alexander
- Shirley’s Wonderful Baby, by Valiska Gregory
- That New Animal by Emily Jenkins
- Brunus and the New Bear by Ellen Stoll Walsh
- On Mother’s Lap by Ann Scott
- The New Small Person, by Lauren Child
Ormerod, Jan. 101 Things to Do with a Baby. 1st U.S. ed. ed., New York, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1984.
We could read this (picture) book with our older children and compare the family life it depicts to what it was like for us having a new baby in our house. The illustrations, while a bit outdated (e.g. the car seat), are generic enough that it was no problem referring to the baby as a him or a her, depending on which gender was currently occupying the crib in our house.