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So Big
A toddler finds her doll "so big" in comparison to animals, etc.
- GenresPicture Books
24 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1968
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November 8, 2019
Not a very interesting story. Some cute pictures, but the tale really doesn’t captivate the audience.
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June 17, 2025One of my favorite books from childhood.
November 12, 2013
Esther Wilkin, So Big (Golden Press, 1968)
I always wondered where that “How big is baby?” “Sooooooooooo big!” thing my mother-in-law did with the Bean when he was still only a few months old cam from. Now I know. To me as the person reading it, the biggest drawback of the book was the repetition. I am trying to take into account that it's a pre-lit book and repetition is a big part both of what helps the kids to learn and what keeps their interest. Still, though, this one goes a bit overboard in that regard (“Is my baby bigger than [X]? My baby is bigger than [X]”, where [X] is not only a creature, but a creature doing something, which makes the whole parallelism thing a touch unwieldy, especially when one is holding a baby in the other hand who squirms when impatient. We'll give him a few more tries round it before packing it away—it does seem like the kind of thing that will work better when he gets a bit older—but certainly not my favorite of the ones we got to for the first time this weekend. **
I always wondered where that “How big is baby?” “Sooooooooooo big!” thing my mother-in-law did with the Bean when he was still only a few months old cam from. Now I know. To me as the person reading it, the biggest drawback of the book was the repetition. I am trying to take into account that it's a pre-lit book and repetition is a big part both of what helps the kids to learn and what keeps their interest. Still, though, this one goes a bit overboard in that regard (“Is my baby bigger than [X]? My baby is bigger than [X]”, where [X] is not only a creature, but a creature doing something, which makes the whole parallelism thing a touch unwieldy, especially when one is holding a baby in the other hand who squirms when impatient. We'll give him a few more tries round it before packing it away—it does seem like the kind of thing that will work better when he gets a bit older—but certainly not my favorite of the ones we got to for the first time this weekend. **
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