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Customer Reviews

Great beginner "MaMa Book"

2008-09-23
This is the one of my 19 month's old favorite book. He will point to it and say "Mama Book" and will sit still listening to me reading this book from the beginning to the end. He loves the pictures and Snort looks like Jack (from the Thomas the tank engine) so he is very happy to see Snort. This is an excellent book to introduce a toddler to reading.

Great Children's Book

2008-09-14
Are You My Mother?

This is a great book for young children. I loved it as a child and my grandsons love it.

Adoptive Daughter loves it

2008-08-12
We adopted a little girl from abroad. She is still a toddler and too young to discuss adoption. We got her this book to see how she would react. It has become her favorite that she MUST have read to her every night. We feel it is helping resolve issues she might have with being adopted. She especially likes that she can take control of the little bird herself and move it through the scenes to its mother.

Child abandonment? Snort. A fun bedtime book? Yes.

2008-07-29
The years haven't been kind to this book. The illustrations are somewhat dated and, judging by the other reviews here on Amazon, there's an angry contingent of parents with abandonment issues who would rather you skip this book for a guide to raise Indigo Children.

I'm just here to review a bedtime book for my two sons.

More than with most books, I really have to act as I read this book to keep their attention. I'm the cow with a nasally Blue Blood voice, I'm the dog with a droopy drawl, and I'm the snort...SNORT!

My boys like this book and we read it regularly at bedtime. Their bookshelf holds roughly 80-100 books and P.D. Eastman occupies two titles in our collection -- A Fish Out of Water and Are You My Mother?

An Absolute Favorite!!

2008-06-26
This was one of my favorite Dr. Seuss books when I was little. I am 24 now and I still have my book (and yes its falling apart). I am keeping it to read to my kids someday. Cute story about a baby bird who goes looking for his mother who went out to get some food. He meets all sorts of things along the way and asks them all "Are you my mother?". I saw another review about this book saying that it was "Scarry" and I can't help but roll my eyes. I never once thought the book was scarry when I was little nor did my brother. I am sure your kids will love it as much as so many other generations have. Hey it's Dr. Seuss, you just can't go wrong! :)

Timeless Classic Still Appeals to Kids Today

2008-03-10
When Baby Bird hatches from his egg, his mother is off looking for food. What’s a bird to do? Go find his mother, of course! So begins Baby Bird’s hilarious, and at times very touching, hunt for his mother.

Children will love this deluxe cloth edition of P. D. Eastman’s all-time favorite. Soft and snuggly pages, complete with an adorable plush baby bird, let children interact with each wonderful character our little hero meets as he asks again and again, “Are you my mother?”

Favorite from baby-hood on

2008-03-07
What a great story. The illustrations perfectly match the simple words. Any book that Mommy can memorize and then recite in the car while the toddler turns the pages is OK with me.

Actually, I'm not the only Mommy I know who has this one memorized -- a friend got stuck in an elevator with little ones and passed the 25 minutes until they were rescued by reciting this story.

It's a great one -- little children understand the determination, the perplexity, the fear, and the contentment of the little bird as he goes on his quest. The drawings are just right. And then the wonderful ending. Ah! How sweet is childhood.

This is a lovely story.

Love it!

2008-01-19
This book is very simple and I wasn't sure my daughter would like it, but my 21 month old adores it and wants to read it over and over again!

Better than the original!

2008-01-01
This is a very fun book! Our son (11 months) lights up whenever we sit down to read it together. He loves taking the baby bird out of the egg and then through the story. (We did cut baby bird off the ribbon because it seemed sort of restrictive.) I read the original version at a bookstore the other day, and I think that the cloth version is better. It sticks to the action and moves more quickly. I would recommend this for any baby's book shelf.

Wonderful book

2007-12-17
Book includes a little baby bird that is attached to the book which you insert into some of the cloth pages. I love this book. Another good cloth book is the original Pat the Bunny book.