Bernard Wants a Baby

Joan Elizabeth Goodman. Boyds Mills Press, $15.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-1-59078-088-6

The energetic elephant returns in Bernard Wants a Baby by Joan Goodman, illus. by Dominic Catalano, this time impatient for a new baby brother-but he only wants one on his terms. When Mama has triplets, Bernard must adjust: ""When Sadie slept, both Max and Sue cried. Sue spit up, too. `Take her back,' said Bernard.""

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