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[ 책 소개 ]
* An International Reading Association Children’s Choice
* Golden Archer Award 수상작
* Cooperative Children's Book Center Choices List
* CBC (Children's Book Council) Children's Choices
* The Horn Book Fanfare
* Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award Winner
* New York Public Library Children's Books: 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing
* Junior Library Guild Selection
브레인스 부부는 새로 태어날 아기가 천재가 될 수 있도록 뱃속에 있을 때부터 조기교육을 열심히 했습니다. 엄마는 뱃속의 아기가 들을 수 있도록 큰 소리로 책을 읽어줬으며, 음악감상과 외국어 테이프도 듣는가 하며, 텔레비전의 뉴스도 들려 줬습니다. 새로 태어난 아기는 이런 부모의 기대를 져버리지 않고 태어난 첫날부터 천재성을 유감없이 발휘했지요. 태어난 첫날부터 신문을 읽고, 자동차를 고치는가 하면, 그날 저녁에 처음으로 말을 하기 시작했습니다. 그리고 처음 한 말이 내일 학교에 가고 싶다는 것이었지요. 하루만에 초등학교 전과정을 마치고, 바로 의과대학에 진학해서 2주만에 의사가 되었습니다. 아기의사는 전국적인 유명인사가 되었으며, 우주센터에 들어가서 일주일 동안 훈련을 받은 후 로케트를 타고 우주로 날아갔습니다. 전 세계인이 지켜보는 가운데 우주 유영을 시작한 베이비 브레인스는 위아래와 좌우의 반짝이는 별들을 둘러본 후 뭐라고 조그만 소리로 웅얼거렸습니다. 지상의 우주센터에서는 좀 더 큰소리로 다시 한번 더 말해달라고 하자 베이비 브레인스는 울음을 터뜨리면서 "I want my mommy!"라고 소리치네요....
지상으로 돌아 온 베이비 브레인스는 그 후로 엄마가 목욕시켜주거나, 아빠가 번쩍 들어올려서 간지럼을 태워주는 것을 좋아하는 보통 아기와 같이 생활했으며, 엄마의 품 속에서 자장가를 들으며 잠자리에 들었습니다. 하루의 대부분을 유모차에서 보내는 베이비 브레인스는, 하지만 주말에는 다른 의사들과 함께 병원에서 환자를 수술하는 것만은 여전히 좋아한다네요...
[ 서지 정보 ]
Edition: Paperback: 32 pages
ISBN-10: 0763636827
ISBN-13: 978-0763636821
책 크기 : 28cm x 23cm
[ 영문 서평 ]
Book Description
It’s never too early to start bringing up the smartest baby in the whole world. So thinks the expectant Mrs. Brains, who reads to the baby
inside her tummy every night and plays music and language tapes to her baby during the day. And soon enough, Mr. and Mrs. Brains have their very own Baby Brains! He reads the paper, fixes the family car, and works as a doctor in the local hospital. Now even the space program is calling on him. Is there anything Baby Brains can’t do?
Publishers Weekly
Taking droll liberties, James (Little One Step) offers a sly send-up of parents who hype their children as la cr me de la cr me of cleverness. During her pregnancy, Mrs. Brains reads aloud and plays music and language CDs to "the baby inside her tummy," and she turns up the television when the news comes on. The day after she and her husband bring Baby Brains home from the hospital, the newborn reads the paper, fixes the car and announces he wants to go to school. Within days the infant is enrolled in medical school, and word of his brilliance spreads. Accepting an invitation to help with a space mission, the baby blasts off into outer space. There, while taking his first space walk, the tot looks at the "vast starlit sky" above and below him and wails, "I want my mommy!" Back at home, the wee one gets a bath, a tickle and a song from his parents and settles into the coddled routine of a typical baby-"except... on weekends... when he still liked to help out at the local hospital." A final image of him performing surgery makes for the perfect visual punch line. James's watercolor-and-ink renderings of the diminutive hero's extraordinary feats put an uproarious spin on the understated text. Boastful parents who can laugh at themselves, as well as their cherished offspring, will find abundant chuckles in these pages.
Children's Literature
This book about the smartest baby in the world is fun, fun, fun. The plot centers on the remarkable new baby born to Mr. and Mrs. Brains. Their pre-baby regimen included saturating the unborn child with literature, music, language, and even TV news. Thus at birth, Baby Brains is a genius. Right away he can read and go to school and after a few weeks he begins work as a doctor. Baby Brains easily fulfills the prestigious job of astronaut after only a weekend of training. Or does he? At this point the author presents readers with a humorous twist. When Baby Brains takes a space walk, and is asked for a comment he can only remark to the world, "I WANT MY MOMMY!" With this clever tale, James addresses the timely issue that many parents today believe their babies are geniuses. His ability to poke fun however will not put parents off. Instead, reading the book aloud or to oneself offers an uplifting experience. Illustrations of Baby Brains doing the remarkable complete this humorous package. Present the tale to preschoolers and primary graders to garner some happy responses.
School Library Journal
Mr. and Mrs. Brains "wanted to make sure their baby was going to be very smart," so they read aloud, played music and languages, and turned up the news for the child in Mrs. Brains's tummy. Sure enough, Baby Brains is discovered reading the newspaper on his very first morning at home. He attends school the following day, announcing his desire to study medicine. In just two weeks, he begins his medical practice and is discovered by the press. When scientists invite him to join their next mission, the world watches as he walks in space. But he reacts to the immensity of space as any infant astronaut might, by wailing to Ground Control, "I want my mommy!" He's rushed home to hugs, warm baths, tickles, lullabies, and the life of a pretty normal infant-except on weekends, when "he still liked to help out at the local hospital." Beginning with the diaper-clad tot perusing a stack of books on the title page and closing with him at his laptop wearing his onesie, this tongue-in-cheek tale will tickle the funny bones of young listeners. The loose and playful lines of the watercolor-and-ink illustrations are used judiciously and to great effect; this economy applies as well to the carefully controlled and well-paced text. The perplexed and awed adults and the absurdly competent baby are perfectly silly and delightful. From the far reaches of space to the snuggly warmth of his welcome home, readers will enjoy the adventures of "the smartest baby in the whole world."
Kirkus Reviews
After Mrs. Brains exposes her son in utero to books, music, and TV news, newly born Baby Brains is reading the newspaper the morning after he comes home from the hospital, fixing the car that afternoon, and performing surgery within a few weeks. With results that parents who compulsively surround their diapered offspring with Baby Einstein products and such can only envy, what's left? A trip into space-but floating alone, high above the Earth, Baby Brains finds intellectual pleasure giving way to a more elemental need: "I want my Mommy!" James illustrates Baby Brains's brief career with lively, Quentin Blake-like cartoons featuring a high-domed toddler and pair of flummoxed-looking parents. Their anxiety changes to proud content when he reverts in the end to more baby-like behavior-except on weekends, that is, when he returns to the OR. Overachieving parents will enjoy this gentle poke in the ribs as much as will their doubtlessly brilliant progeny. |
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