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|title=Let's Go, Baby-o!
|author=Janet McLean and Andrew McLean
|publisher=Allen and Unwin Children's Books
|date=April 2014
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|website=http://mcleanpicturebooks.com/books.html
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Hey! Baby has woken up in his cot and wants to play. Luckily his singing, dancing, jiggling and bouncing older cousin is there to spring him free and start the fun. They leap and chant and jump and sing. Meanwhile, in the garden, the rest of the family, the pets and the wildlife are having some drama of their own. Baby and his dancing cousin pause to look out the window. Their observations inspire them to move and sing again.
''Let’s Go, Baby-o!'' is quite unlike any other baby or toddler book I’ve come across before. That’s saying something as the local librarian has used a lot of ink stamping my baby-o’s Sure Start reading passport. There’s a bit of everything in here. There’s rhythm and rhyme. There’s movement and drama. There are striking illustrations and an opportunity to practice counting. '''Let’s Go Baby-o!''' is a book of multiple dimensions. The repetition of alternating window gazing and wild dancing, is a comforting anchor point but outside the scene is changing, a mild drama unfolds. How will this inspire movement and rhyme? How will baby and cousin dance together? Look right there! Is that another toy of baby’s sneaking in to peep out too? Let’s count them and name them and watch them dance. There’s an educational message for mum or dad too. Every house has a window. Every parent can find a rhyme. Every baby wants to communicate and learn about their world. '''Let’s Go Baby-o!''' is not an end in itself, it’s intended to enrich parent-child interaction, so the reader can begin their own rhyming, rhythmic journey.
There are some accurate, and touching, observations to be found between the boards of this book. I’ve stood at the window many times with a tired, or grumpy, or simply nosey son, tucked in my arm or perched on the ledge. Just like the illustration, he is intrigued by what is going on outside. Scenes more mundane than the one unfolding in ''Let’s Go Baby-o!'' fascinate him. Baby-o cuts a slight and vulnerable figure to me as he crouches looking outside, clutching his cuddly toy and trying to make sense of the world. No time to be maudlin though – cousin has another dance and rhyme to lead - ''to the flip, to the flop to the hop-hop-hop.''
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