Baby (MacLachlan novel)

Baby is a 1995 novel by Patricia MacLachlan. It explores the themes of family and abandonment through a store of a family who discovers a baby and has to care for it. With the baby, is a short note, explaining why the baby was left, and with brief information about her.

It was also adapted into a 2000 made-for-TV movie directed by Robert Allan Ackerman and starring Farrah Fawcett, Keith Carradine, and Jean Stapleton.

Reception[]

Horn Book noted that the age of the book's intended audience was unclear but that it should still be read.^[1] Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books called it an "excellent selection for early chapter book readers"^[2] The International Reader's Association put it on its 1994 list of books good for teaching.^[3]

References[]

^ M. M. B. “Baby.” Horn Book Magazine, vol. 69, no. 6, Nov. 1993, p. 746. EBSCOhost.
^ Morrison, Hope. "Fly Away by Patricia MacLachlan (review)." Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, vol. 67 no. 10, 2014, pp. 530-530. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/bcc.2014.0500
^ “Teachers’ Choices for 1994.” Reading Teacher, vol. 48, no. 3, Nov. 1994, p. 239. EBSCOhost.

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[1] M. M. B. “Baby.” Horn Book Magazine, vol. 69, no. 6, Nov. 1993, p. 746. EBSCOhost.

[2] Morrison, Hope. "Fly Away by Patricia MacLachlan (review)." Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, vol. 67 no. 10, 2014, pp. 530-530. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/bcc.2014.0500

[3] “Teachers’ Choices for 1994.” Reading Teacher, vol. 48, no. 3, Nov. 1994, p. 239. EBSCOhost.

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