This is one of the very best books for preparing a child for a newcomer in the family. Not only is it full of what life with a baby is like, but it is clever and funny too with lots of details parents will enjoy. There are five families shown, one with twins, and we see the babies and their families in all sorts of active and passive situations. We meet the parents first, and then go on to seeing breakfast with the babies, their high chairs, and what they eat. Toys and siblings come next, and each of the sections have single word titles along with single words by each item - excellent for discussion purposes. We see babies in their prams, playing games, having dinner, having accidents (many of these very funny!), playing in the garden, having tea, and reading stories with parents (one of these being a desperate father reading Hugh Jolly's childcare book while trying to comfort his crying baby). Finally, we see bath time and bedtime. and exhausted parents in the aftermath of all the chaos. It's wonderfully evocative of what life is like with small babies, and as one of the families is black, it has an interracial aspect too. Fathers are seen helping equally with mums, and the whole book is modern in spite of having been first published over 30 years ago. Can't be bettered! All the joys and some of the problems of sharing life with a new person are here.