Julius, the Baby of the World by Kevin Henkes

For example, she delights in insulting her oblivious baby brother: “If you were a food, you’d be a raisin,” she whispers into his crib. Through bright watercolors and handwritten, cartoon-style dialogue, Henkes relishes Lilly’s wickedness. Kevin Henkes, creator of Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse refuses to shy away from the truly powerful and sometimes dark feelings of children. Soon the jealousy is too much for her, and she embarks on a rejection campaign that is hysterically funny, but also comforting for siblings who probably feel just as much resentment but would never go to Lilly’s extremes. But when her parents repeatedly coo, “Julius is the baby of world,” Lilly’s mouse hackles begin to rise. At first, big sister Lilly thought it might be fun to have a new baby in the family.

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I definitely recommend it for any child in the suggested age range of 4 - 8.Brief Summary of Book: Julius, the Baby of the World by Kevin Henkes And the resolution - banding together to protect her brother from an outsider - is pretty realistic too, the surplus of mice notwithstanding. (Really, I'm just happy they use their words instead of their hands.)Īnd of course they didn't pick up the words 'hate' and 'ugly' and 'disgusting' from the book, they picked it up from other children and from us - who doesn't say, when they burn their toast for the third time in a row, 'Ugh, I hate burned toast'? Who doesn't say, when their kid picks their nose at the table, 'Ugh, that's disgusting, go wash off and don't do it again'? Who doesn't say, when they find a bug in the house, 'Hey, an ugly bug! Let's put it outside!'? (Who really wants to limit their child's vocabulary and leave them hopeless when they start school?) Gosh, if I go through a day without hearing 'I'm NEVER gonna be your SISTER ever AGAIN' and 'I hate you, you're MEAN!' and 'You're UGLY and MEAN and I'm gonna PEE ON YOU!' I start feeling foreheads! And of course my two nieces love each other very much (heaven forbid I put one in time-out for antagonizing her sister, it's the other one who whines and tries to convince me it's unnecessary and sneaks around to hand out hugs behind my back!), but like all young children they have big emotions and limited means of expressing them. The rest of us live in the real world where four is the age of the potty mouth. Show More 'disgusting' either don't have four year olds (Lilly's approximate age), have blocked that age from their memory, are lying, are lying to THEMSELVES, or have the sweetest, nicest, most wonderful children in existence.