The Perfect Baby Blog is on a brief hiatus while I’m in Canada. Until May 26, when regular blogging will recommence, I’ll be posting excerpts and illos from The Perfect Baby Handbook that provide an insider glimpse of how the book came together. Today: Let’s take a look at some of the early illo concepts […]

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The Perfect Baby Blog is on a brief hiatus while I’m in Canada. Until May 26, when regular blogging will recommence, I’ll be posting excerpts and illos from The Perfect Baby Handbook that provide an insider glimpse of how the book came together. Today: A challenge. Chapter One includes a guide to setting up a […]

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Here, we have a $92 prefabricated eco-lemonade stand. Made of premium recycled cardboard. What a marvelous, crucial invention. Only a reckless parent would let his child attempt entrepreneurship spontaneously, by herself—possibly suffering injury or embarrassment while improvising a lemonade stand out of, say, a folding card table. Babygadget.com, who ardently recommends this product, has this […]

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In Amy Krause Rosenthal’s beautiful new picture book, Spoon, the title character is bummed out by his mere spoonness. As Booklist puts it, the eponymous scooper is “feeling down because his life is not as exciting as those of his friends Knife, Fork, and Chopsticks [an especially worldly couple]. He covets their thrilling jobs and […]

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Here at Perfect Baby Handbook Worldwide HQ—a musty old edifice with a stale air of tradition—we were initially intrigued by the refreshingly new-fangled approach to family highway travel depicted here (from a sensible, funny Babble.com story called “Parenting Trends: 10 that are in, 10 that are out“). Then, we began to worry. Our first thought […]

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