My Baby Loves Halloween

Description

The perfect Halloween gift for your baby or toddler! With My Baby Loves Halloween, celebrate all the lovely things that Baby discovers about Halloween: Baby loves the crisp autumn air. Baby loves candles in pumpkins that grin. Baby loves candy... Celebrate all the sweet things that Baby discovers about Halloween. This board book, the perfect gift for a new baby, features rhythmic poetry from Jabari Asim and adorable art from Tara Nicole Whitaker.

Jabari Asim is an associate professor of Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College in Boston. He is also the executive editor of The Crisis, the NAACP's flagship journal of politics, ideas and culture. He is the author of children's books like Whose Knees Are These, Whose Toes are Those, and has also written acclaimed works for adults. His writing has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the Wall Street Journal, Salon.com, the Los Angeles Times, the Village Voice, the New York Times, USA Today and elsewhere. His first work of fiction, A Taste of Honey, was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. So was his latest book, Fifty Cents And A Dream. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Tara Nicole fell in love with children's books from visits to the local library. This passion for illustration developed into one for animation, as well. Her education in art began early, from classes at Pratt in her youth, to more formal training at RISD and California Institute of the Arts, earning her a BFA in Character Animation in 2002. Since graduating, she has designed for Dreamworks, Nickelodeon, Fox Animation, PBS, CBS, Cartoon Network, and most recently, Disney. She loves dogs and her mini. My Baby Loves Chrismtas marks Tara's debut as a children's book illustrator!