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My babygirl is officially 2 months old! I'm already sobbing she's getting so big so fast I hate/love it.

“The soldiers played cards and blew smoke out the open windows. They talked to Pop and how they would soon be shipped overseas any day now and were missing that girl of mine already, and my grandma's apple pie.“

This book makes many historical connections to what life was like during World War 2. During this time many people encountered economic challenges. Many women went to work while their husbands served, leaving many children without consistent adult supervision. This also made it hard for single mothers which may have been why the baby was left on the staircase. This story helps students understand economic hardships, fear, and loss of loved ones.

The Summer We Found the Baby by Amy Hest (2020) is a children's historical fiction book that is about three kids who discover an abandoned baby on the staircase of a library. This book is based on the time period of world war two. Amy Hest focuses on factual information by describing what life was like during this era. She focuses on fiction by the fictional narrative of three children discovering and taking the baby for themselves.

“Nine months long, from start to end, a tiny baby is growing in a mothers tummy, waiting to be your friend”

I wouldn‘t use this in my classroom because it‘s not a topic I would really talk about with kids unless they had a question about it

I thought this was a really well done book. It explained a confusing topic in a child like way and the illustrations were great

“Where are we going to get the baby?”

This is a book I would recommend a families to help explain a new sibling in the family, but it is not one that I would use in a classroom just because it is a very personal family nature and some parents aren‘t gonna be comfortable with that.

This book might be better for parents/the home than in the classroom, but would still be a cute book for the classroom library!