On the Day You Were Born
- First published
- 1991
- Reading stage
- Picture books & shared reading
Reading this with your child
This book places a birth within the wider context of the natural world. It’s a lovely choice for shared reading, and you can slow down to talk about the sea, the sky, and the living things in the illustrations.
For visual discovery, familiar read-alouds, and lap reading.
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Publication history & sources
This book is in the Publishers Weekly historical bestseller survey. Inclusion in that survey documents its cumulative popularity, but does not establish a specific sales rank within the 1990s.
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