I’m Big Now by Anthea Simmons and
Georgie Birkett (2017)
It’s always refreshing to find a new sibling book that is
positive, and this one does a great job of honoring the feelings of the older
sister, while still framing things in a positive helpful manner. To deal with
her feelings of jealousy and displacement, she pretends to be a baby. In each
case, a loving family member affirms her feelings and reminds her that she’s a
big girl now in rhyming text.
Themes/topics: siblings, new baby, growing up,
pretending
Sample text from two spreads:
The baby’s got his
mushy food, he gets it in his hair. But I’ve got crunchy cereal and I sit on a
chair.
“Would you like
breakfast all mashed up?” Mummy teases me.
“No!” I can eat my
big girl food with big girl teeth you see.
The baby’s on the
changing mat and he’s not very happy.
I’m up on my potty.
I don’t have to wear a nappy.
“This was you,
once,” Daddy says.
“You hated diapers,
too.”
“I’m a big girl,
now,” I say. “I do what big girls do.”
