Baby Loves

by Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mary Cassatt (Illustrator)

Celebrating the many precious first experiences in a baby's life, an enchanting picture book features lavish images by the legendary Impressionist Mary Cassatt that have been taken from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's vast collection.

Genres: Picture Books, Art

48 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, (colloquially, the “Met”) is the largest art museum in the United States.

It was founded on April 13, 1870, "to be located in the City of New York, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in said city a Museum and library of art, of encouraging and developing the study of the fine arts, and the application of arts to manufacture and practical life, of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects, and, to that end, of furnishing popular instruction."

Reviews

[Coach D]

An old favorite we somehow missed rating when we first read it back in 2015 or 2016! We're super into art and artists these days so it seemed worth revisiting.

[Suzanne Lorraine Kunz Williams]

I loved the concept of this book. But I just don't enjoy looking at so many pictures of naked babies. Minus those I think it would have been a delightful book.

**Talking points - What babies do you know? Why are babies so wonderful to be around?

[Pinky]

A book of mothers and their babies along with Mary Cassatt's paintings.

[Amy]

Loving Mary Cassatt and babies are prerequisites to adoring this book. Each page accompanies a painting with a two-word description: baby loves, baby claps, baby sits, and more. Children are never too young to appreciate fine art, but I must confess, I bought this book more for myself than my one-year-old daughter. Simplicity reigns and conquers in its pages.

[Candice]

A very nice book to get a child acquainted with fine artworks. Each two-page spread consists of a short phrase, "Baby sits," "baby stands," etc. paired with one of Mary Cassatt's mother and child paintings. The paintings are in color and are so beautiful. At the back of the book is a guide to each of the paintings, all of which can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[Robert]

What an interesting concept for a book! The Metropolitan Museum of Art published a series of paintings it has in its collection of babies. Simple text is interspersed to describe what the baby is doing. This is a fun read with babies. I love the paintings.

[Marianne]

This is a wonderful picture book with the paintings of the artist Mary Cassatt. It shows different poses of babies with their mother. Beautiful.

[Michelle Farella]

Children in famous works of art, great way to introduce children to art.