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Top 10 Most Recent Books About New Siblings
It's Big Brother Time!
by Nandini Ahuja

Value-priced and starring diverse characters, a heartwarming story for first-time older brothers depicts a boy who embraces the important duties of setting positive examples and helping his family raise an infant sibling who needs to learn everything about the world. 50,000 first printing. 
Shhh! The Baby's Asleep
by JaNay Brown-Wood

One smart little narrator knows just the way to make his baby sister fall back to sleep after his loud and boisterous family and neighbors wake her up! .
A Ticket for Cricket
by Molly Coxe

A rhyming celebration of the challenges of older siblinghood by the best-selling author of Cat Traps finds an energetic Little Cricket searching for a place where he can play and make noise without waking his family’s new baby. Illustrations.
I Love You, Baby Burrito
by Angela Dominguez

The award-winning illustrator of Mango, Abuela, and Me introduces related Spanish-language vocabulary words in an endearing celebration of the modern tradition of carefully and cozily swaddling a newborn “like a baby burrito.” 
Wonderful You
by Lisa Graff

A celebration of the joy of waiting for a new baby to be born depicts family members of all sorts watching a baby-to-be growing to sizes that are compared to a sweet pea, a mango and a pumpkin, before the baby is born its own wonderful self. 
Darling Baby
by Maira Kalman

"Based on the journal she kept when her granddaughter was new, Maira Kalman shares observations about a summer spent with a baby"
The New Baby And Me!
by Christine Kidney

A new baby is on the way! What will he be like? This family of five children all have their own ideas about the new baby - will he be a pirate or painter, a scientist or a dreamer? But there's one thing they haven't thought of...
Special Delivery
by Elliot Kruszynski

Today is a very special day. Little Duck is expecting the arrival of her new baby brother! But Delivery Dude keeps bringing the wrong babies. Little Duck’s house is filling up to the rafters when the doorbell rings again. But thankfully this time Delivery Dude is followed by his Stork boss, a load of very cross parents who have come to collect their babies, Little Duck’s Mom and Dad, and one last very special delivery... Illustrations.
Dog's First Baby
by Natalie Nelson

Investigating the arrival of a new member of the family, Dog is determined to dig up some clues to discover the identity of this loud, silly creature. 
Bright Brown Baby : A Treasury
by Andrea Davis Pinkney

The New York Times best-selling and award-winning duo present this celebration of Black and Brown babies and the happiness, gentle moments and endless love shared between children and their caregivers. Illustrations.
More Books About New Siblings
A New Baby Arrives by Nicola Barber
Big Brothers Don't Take Naps by Louise Borden
There's Going to be a Baby by John Burningham
Samuel's Baby by Mark Elkin
Smile, Principessa! by Judith Ross Enderle
Silly Baby by Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick
It's Not Fair! by Anita Harper
Mail Harry to the Moon! by Robie H. Harris
Not Yet, Rose by Susanna Leonard Hill
Little Rabbit's New Baby by Harry Horse
I Have a New Baby Sister by Paul M. Kramer
What a Good Big Brother! by Diane Wright Landolf
Cornelius P. Mud, Are You Ready for Baby? by Barney Saltzberg
How to Welcome A New Baby by  Jean Reagan 
Because I'm New by Brad Sneed
I Sang You Down From the Stars by Tasha Spillett-Sumner
Ways to Grow Love by Renee Watson
Sophie Peterman Tells the Truth! by Sarah Weeks
New Baby  by Carol Zeavin
 
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