Walk On! A Guide for Babies of All Ages

Frazee, Marla. Walk On! A Guide for Babies of All Ages. Unpaged/ Harcourt, Inc. 2006 ISBN 0-15-05573-8 $16.00 (Preschool)


Marla Frazee encourages restless toddlers to get up, leave behind the prickly carpeting and feel the wind blow through their wisps of hair. Walking: a simple concept to an adult, but a child? Frazee generates a how-to for baby to get up and go. A voice of encouraging coos and the reassuring proclamations guide baby to have the wobbly confidence to escape the ever-familiar carpeting beneath baby’s bottom. From baby’s first realization that “sitting there on [its] bottom [is] getting boring” until toddling off to the unexplored, Frazee’s pictures bring about a playful reality portrayed through soft tones of a child’s eye. Similar to Frazee’s beloved Mrs. Biddlebox, baby learns to move on in the world and achieve new beginnings. Frazee’s lively artwork and connections to a perspective so long ago forgotten, reminds readers of all ages that there is still a world out there to explore.

Ashley LaBrie, BGSU student