When is the new baby coming? What will we call it? What will he do? We don't really need a baby, do we? With sensitivity and wit, John Burningham follows the swirl of questions in the mind of a young child anticipating a baby sibling with excitement, curiosity, and just a bit of trepidation. In perfect tandem, Helen Oxenbury captures the child's loving interactions with his mother - along with the fanciful future scenarios he imagines for the new family member he has yet to meet. Combining a warm, timeless story with illustrations both freshly enchanting and wonderfully nostalgic, this gorgeous book has all the hallmarks of a classic.

Do you know a child who is soon to be a big brother or sister? If there is another baby on the way in your family, this book is an excellent answer to your little one's swirl of questions. The story is presented as dialogue between a mother and her toddler son. Although there are no quotation marks, it is always clear who is speaking; the toddler's many questions about the arriving baby are in dark grey, while the mother's gentle answers are in light grey. For every two-page spread, one entire page is filled with a picture, while small pictures are interspersed between the words on the accompanying page. The pictures showing the toddler and his mother are drawn with vibrant solid colors, while the pictures showing what the toddler is imagining are made up of just a few different colors of pixels, like old comic books.

The toddler and his mother do many different activities while they talk about the baby, like go for a walk, go out to eat, visit a museum, go to the zoo, and many other activities that you and your little one may be familiar with. The toddler's questions and thoughts will likely echo your own toddler's. Or, perhaps when you told your child the good news, they didn't quite understand what it meant, so they don't know what to think or which questions to ask. Either way, this book provides excellent answers to help soothe any worry and get them excited for their new role of big brother or big sister. The story also contains ample amounts of humor. For example, when his mother suggests the baby might be a chef someday, the toddler imagines the baby cooking in the kitchen and making a complete mess; or when the mother suggests that perhaps the baby will be a doctor, the toddler imagines the baby checking a teddy bear's vitals and bandaging him up.