Babies Don't Eat Pizza: A Big Kids' Book About Baby Brothers and Baby Sisters

This is a really excellent book for the older kiddos. It discusses a huge variety of topics while keeping things simple enough to understand. The book walks you through where babies come from to what happens when they arrive to what older siblings can do with baby and even discusses tough emotions like jealousy and not wanting baby. It also touches on some of the less expected topics such as adoption, which made me very happy to see! I’m very much looking forward to reading this one with my little dude! I expect it will be perfect for him at 8years old to understand and open some dialogue.

Very informative and beautiful book. My almost-four-year-old seems to like it. I like the accurate information presented. It covers all things expected about having a new baby. Nice glossy print as well.

This is a great book for older kids or just younger kids who are particularly smart and interested in the whole baby thing! It’s probably best for kids age 5-7 but my 3.5 year old daughter was absolutely enthralled, because she’s been so into the doctors role in all this. The book goes into nice detail about babies that most books don’t, such as how their birth hair can fall out and grow back another color. Many reviews mention the birth page, so I included a photo. I loved this page because my daughter was and new baby will be born via c-section and I’ve struggled with how to explain this to a curious 3 year old who can only otherwise guess that the baby would come out of my belly button, lol! The explanation in the book was perfect! Accurate but not graphic. If you’re looking for something super cutesy, rhyming, or for a 2 year old, this isn’t the book for you. It’s not baby-ish. It’s very informative, while still being for children. The illustrations are cute but the main attraction is the written word. If your child is especially curious about birth and babies this is a great book! It also talks about all the things big siblings can do with babies and how parents still love the older kids after baby arrives.

I bought this for our 8 year old son who will be 9 by the time our baby arrives. I was aware that the book stated it was for older children but was concerned that with it being picture book style it might be too babyish for our son. I took the chance given the good reviews it already had. My son loves the book as do my husband and myself. It has plenty of text, an appropriate level of description and the humour is a great way of taking a light hearted approach to the potentially challenging event of welcoming a new baby into a family. The book does use a couple of words like "diaper" and "bassinet" which are American terms but our son was aware that a diaper was a nappy from watching American made TV shows and it was easy enough to explain that a bassinet is like a crib or cot.

Nice and colourful book with a lot to speak about with your older child. It considers different options (e.g. Breastfeeding and bottle) so it's quite complete. I was very happy to have purchased it.