Categories: Friendship & Getting Along, New Baby

Share!

This book may help to explore disgruntled feelings between an older and a younger baby sibling who at about 6 months is starting to want to play with their toys and things. It is hard to share everything and resentment can build up inside.

Author: Anthea Simmons
Illustrator: Georgie Birkett
Publisher: Andersen Press Ltd

Sharing can seem difficult and a bit unfair, especially with a younger baby brother wanting to pull away your toys. “Share” says mummy in the story to the little girl aged about 4 or 5. So she does, and so lots of toys and special books get sticky and soggy with a young baby wanting to play with them. Not surprisingly, older sister gets fed up and begins to ‘share’ things like a drink of milk in an open cup and a paint brush with her little brother on purpose, so he gets sticky and soggy and messy too. In the end they share a lovely bubbly bath together and share a cuddle in bed with mum.

Things we liked:

The book is told from the child's point of view. A lovely ending with older sister and younger baby brother snuggling in bed together and sharing their mummy with a hug altogether.

Worth noting:

This book helps parents to understand that maybe it is not always fair to ask an older sibling to share with a younger and to see from their older child's point of view why they might get fed up with constantly being told to share.

Review by: Debbie Brace