The young girl saves her most important question until the end.

As for her lap, Mama tells her daughter it will return after her sister is born. “When my sister comes, do I have to share my blanket?” ‘Will your lap ever come back?” Mama assures the girl that her blanket will always be hers and suggests making another one together for her baby sister. All of Halpin’s paintings warmly show how the girl’s parents have included her in preparing for her sister’s arrival.Ĭlutching her blanket, the questions turn more personal. While the baby will not be born with freckles, her father thinks yes, perhaps after a few summers by the lake have passed.Īs the young girl asks questions, Halpin’s gorgeous illustrations not only depict her excitement in the present but also the girl’s visualizations of helping her baby sister learn to swim and take a bath in the future. “Does my sister know me already? “Will my sister have freckles?” Mama explains that the baby already knows her sister’s voice. Mama’s Belly tells the tender story of an inquisitive young girl who poses a variety of questions to her parents about her sister’s arrival. There is no doubt that a new sibling can cause feelings of both excitement and apprehension. If you are interested in reading more of Kate Hosford’s books you can follow the link below to her author page.A very special thanks to Barbara Fisch of Blue Slip Media for sharing Mama’s Belly with Beagles and Books. We felt the story should get a big 3 thumbs up as it is a great conversation starter for the subject of infinity and what it means to others. It was hard to see from a child’s perspective of infinity. While we as adults generally don’t measure our time in exaggerated terms unless waiting in line at the DMV or bank. While thinking about the correlation between infinity and the little girls shoes I’ve come to the conclusion that for a 5 year old and their sense of time that maybe the little girl in the story felt like it had been an infinite amount of time that anyone had noticed her red shoes. Though the shoes were mentioned briefly in the end when her grandmother tells her how nice they look. We found it hard to pull a correlation between the red shoes and infinity. In the beginning of the story she mentions her excitement desire to show them off then she drifts her thoughts to the stars and the infinite amount of stars.

The flow of the story gets thrown off by the random mention of the little girls new red shoes. Katherine and I like this book for its wonderful Illustrations and visual views of “Infinity”, stars, numbers etc. Only to realize Infinity is to never be reached. Is it something she can even fathom? She asks others around her what their view on Infinity is. Infinity and Me is a story about a little girl who starts wondering what Infinity is.

Infinity and Me by Kate Hosford