Reviews for The gigantic baby

The average rating for The gigantic baby based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-04-20 00:00:00 William Faver This story is an allegory, primarily, about how big of a deal it can seem when a new baby arrives and commences to cry all through the night, waking everyone up and making life seem very difficult. This is what it's like when Marvin's parents bring his new baby sister home from the hospital. At first, her crying seems ordinary ("She seems to cry a lot," Marvin tells his friends at school), but as the baby continues to wail she grows bigger, and the volume of her crying increases, and she grows still larger, and louder, until it seems that the entire scenario is out of control and nothing can be done to save the family. Then Marvin comes up with a simple idea to counteract his baby sister's crying, and his idea works perfectly to remove the constant noise and transform the baby into something nice, after all. Marvin didn't give up on his sister, and the rewards are terrific. I like Mordicai Gerstein's writing style, and even though he wasn't the illustrator for this book, I liked it overall, anyway. I would give one and a half stars to The Gigantic Baby.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-01-10 00:00:00 Hans Halko Mommy says: Plays on the fears of a first born adjusting to the arrival of colicky #2. Fears of the Mom & Dad, too, for that matter.