School Library Journal Review
PreS-A preschooler cares for her doll just like a mother would a baby. The toy is pushed in a carriage, fed, and bathed. Her diaper is changed and she is put to bed in a lovely pink cradle. Then readers are introduced to the child's mother and new sibling. The big sister announces her intention to help her mommy as much as she can, because "Being a mommy is really hard work!" The digitally rendered illustrations are cheerful and spacious with small details and large images. Each scene features movable, tactile parts such as a doorway made of flaps, a pull tab that empties a bottle, and a fuzzy pink polka-dotted towel. A fun book for aspiring and new siblings.-Laura Hunter, Mount Laurel Library, NJ (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
Baby dolls have been popular for more than a century, and Dodd's young narrator, first seen tottering in her mother's red heels while pushing a baby carriage, walks readers through the care and keeping of her own doll. Readers can take part in the fun, helping feed the doll (a tab makes her bottle appear to drain of milk), change her diaper (a tangle of cloth strips), and rock her to sleep ("And when it's bedtime, I say, 'Night-night. Sleep tight, sweetie' "). Doll-lovers should find the interactive touches entirely satisfying, and the surprise ending demonstrates that the girl's caretaking instincts and enthusiasm extend to a certain real-life baby, too. Ages 3-7. (Aug.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Kirkus Review
A child with a doll demonstrates baby care in this sweet, decidedly purposeful outing. "This is me," begins the stroller-pushing young narrator. "And this / is my baby doll." On she goes to show bottle feeding, diaper changing (sans any visible sign of need for same), bathing and toweling dry, and then putting down in a rocking cradle. "Being a mommy is really hard work!" she concludes meaningfully, and so she promises to give her own mommy lots of help--with "our new baby!" Using a palette of, largely, pale pinks and blues, Dodd crafts big, simply drawn illustrations of the cheery tot with her doll (both Caucasian). They are enhanced by glued-in swatches of soft cloth representing towel and diaper, plus pull tabs that lower a stroller's hood, empty a milk bottle and float a rubber ducky across the tub. A climactic double-flap doorway reveals mommy with both baby and new big sister on her lap. Pushing actual child care duties off on preschoolers is a nonstarter, but this may help prepare younger prospective sibs for family changes. (Pop-up/picture book. 3-4)]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
