Reviews for She come bringing me that little baby girl / by Eloise Greenfield ; ill. by John Steptoe.
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I asked Mama to bring me a little brother from the hospital, but she come bringing me that little baby girl wrapped all up in a pink blanket."" Sensitively in touch with his natural idiom and troubled feelings, Greenfield lets us in on one left out older sibling's complaints -- that ""Mama had only one arm to hug me with,"" the baby ""didn't look new with all those wrinkles,"" and when people come with presents ""It was making me sick to see them crowding around that ugly old baby and making those stupid noises."" And if the little boy's revised assessment of the baby (""I looked at her again and she wasn't all that ugly anymore"") and his' willingness to share his parents' affection after Mama tells him she'll need his help caring for the newcomer seem unrealistically sudden, we've already been down far enough with him to accept a change. Welcome too is the softening of the glowing outlines of Steptoe's My Special Best Words (KR, p. 941, J-351) and their integration with his earlier manner, so that both the warmth of the family relationships and the intensity of the child's feelings are forcefully conveyed. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
