Mother and Child: The Wonderful Things You Will Be by Emily Winfield Martin

WHEN YOU WERE TOO SMALL TO TELL ME HELLO,

I KNEW YOU WERE SOMEONE I WANTED TO KNOW.

The first time alone with a new baby is the time a parent realizes the enormity of what it means. There a whole new person there, with unknown possibilities, a future yet unforeseeable, with so many possibilities, a personality that they must begin to know. They look at each other and both see someone important. And as the child grows, the parents go along also, showing the child the world.  And they know...

THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THERE HAS EVER BEEN A YOU.

There is much to wish for the new child–-kindness, cleverness, the strength to stand up for the good, the capacity to love and to enjoy life. In Emily Winfield Martin’s (Random House), this little book is the way to greet the new one with hopes and wishes and warnings for what lies ahead, set out in a bright four-page gatefold spread of the many things children do as they grow. And the parent cannot help thinking about all the millions of steps and sights and joys the child will take and see and feel in the time together that lies ahead. This little best-seller is a wonderful alternative to a card and/or baby gift to the new mother and child.