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About Vampire Baby
Product Description When Tootie gets her first teeth, it’s clear to her big brother that she’s no ordinary baby. But how to convince Mom and Dad? It happens overnight: little sister Tootie goes from cuddly, ga-ga-googoo, I-want-my-ba-ba baby...vampire baby. Now she’s sinking her pointy fangs into everything — furniture, toys, and especially her big brother (“Youch, Tootie! No bite!” ). Mom insists that it’s just a phase, but Tootie’s brother knows better. Just look at her hairline! Or the fact that all her favorite foods are bloodred! With perfect comic timing, Kelly Bennett and Paul Meisel give a fresh slant to the new-baby story, proving that even monstrous little arrivals have a funny way of staking their siblings’ affections. From School Library Journal PreS-When baby Tootie gets both canine teeth simultaneously, she becomes Vampire Baby overnight. She "sinks her fangs" into everything, including her older brother, the story's narrator. On shopping day, he puts Tootie in a cape and gives her a sign that says, "Wanted good home for Vampire Baby." A vampire family happens to be in aisle 13 at the same time and offers to take the baby "homey-womey." But when the boy shouts at Tootie for chomping on his nose, her brother comes to her defense and decides to keep her after all. Simple pen-and-ink and watercolor cartoon illustrations accompany text that may interest a preschool audience with teething younger siblings. Young listeners may enjoy repeating, "Youch, Tootie! No bite!" but the appeal of this story may otherwise be limited.-Lindsay Persohn, University of South Florida, Tampaα(c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. From Booklist Although his baby sister, Tootie, used to be sweet, cuddly, and toothless, she’s suddenly grown fangs! The unnamed little boy narrator joins his mom and baby sister at the doctor’s office, where the doctor assures them that she’s no vampire—Tootie’s canines have just grown in before her incisors. But Tootie’s brother isn’t convinced, thanks to her excessive, painful biting: his feet, the dog’s toy, their father’s newspaper. So he decides to give away this vampire baby and is delighted when a vampire family—including a boy about his own size—expresses interest. But when the vampire boy scolds Tootie for biting, her brother leaps to her defense and decides that Tootie, vampire or not, is his baby sister to keep. The soft, brightly colored illustrations suggest that no harm is really going to come of the brother’s impatience or Tootie’s biting. Readers who already like vampire stories will get an extra jolt of fun from this picture book. For a more nuanced take on the same theme for this age, see Joann Sfar’s Little Vampire books. Preschool-Grade 2. --Francisca Goldsmith Review Simple pen-and-ink and watercolor cartoon illustrations accompany text that may interest a preschool audience with teething younger siblings. —School Library Journal Meisel’s illustrations, executed in acrylic, watercolor, collage, pencil, ink and pastel, are full of details that add light, humorous touches to the tale, lending just the right touch of charm. Casting Tootie as a potential vampire gives the well-worn new-baby theme a fresh, comic twist. —Kirkus Reviews Bennett’s humorous conversational text plays to realism (i.e., Tootie is a normal teething baby and her brother’s imagination is getting the better of him) while Meisel’s clean-lined mixed-media illustrations agreeably maintain the baby-as-vampire conceit. —The Horn Book About the Author Kelly Bennett is the author of many books for children, including Not Norman: A GoldfishStory. Kelly Bennett lives in Houston, Texas. Paul Meisel is the illustrator of Harriet’s Had Enough! by Elissa Haden Guest, What’s the Matter in Mr. Whiskers’ Room? by Michael Elsohn Ross, Dear Baby by Sarah Sullivan, and many other books, including the Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor–winning Se
