Little Mommy (Little Golden Book) Hardcover – April 8, 2008

My 21 month old daughter brings this book to me constantly to read it to her, and it has fast become her very favorite book.The pictures are just beautiful, and I love the story. The little girl has obviously been trained well at the hand of a loving mommy, and the little girl is a wonderful "little mommy" herself.I would like to comment on some of the anti-little mommy reviews that I read on here. It seems that the main arguments are that this book teaches that women can only be home raising their children and that it shows mothers basically slaving and exhausting themselves when they are home. Um, yes, staying home and raising your children requires much work, and at times is exhausting, and I'm not going into the moral ramifications of allowing daycare workers, nannies, and preschool teachers to shape the morals of our children, rather than being home and shaping them ourselves, in this review.However, this book is a great depiction of what it is to truly mother your children. The girl HAPPILY takes up the work. She's not dreading each diaper change, dreading the housework, or the cooking, and when she goes to bed at night, though exhausted, she is smiling at her babies, and quite content with her lot. She takes her babies by her side as she works (obviously she learned this at her own mother's knee), and I personally love this depiction of a mommy's role.The book is called Little Mommy. It's not called Little Doctor, Little Lawyer, or Little CEO, and the book rightly depicts a Little Mommy. If you want a book showing little girls pretending to be doctors, lawyers, or CEO's, buy them. But to say that this book is limiting your daughter by showing her that girls can only do one thing is ridiculous. If you bought a book called "Little Lawyer," I doubt you'd be reviewing the book negatively because it shows that women can only be lawyers.Would you prefer the book to show the mother waking up frazzled in the morning, complaining about her husband, chasing the children out of the house because it's time for daycare, feeding them poptarts in the car because the mother has no time to cook for her familiy, talking on her cell phone while her children watch a DVD in the backseat on the way to day care, then leaving her children at daycare crying, screaming, and pitching a fit because they'd rather be with their mommy than left with a bunch of strangers? That's what the Little Mommies of today are learning that mothering is, but I doubt that a book depicting motherhood as it truly is today would be palatable to the mothers complaining about this book either.If you want a book that shows a loving mother HAPPILY taking care of her children, her home, and her husband, this book would be a lovely choice for your family. If you want a depiction of what your daughters are learning it means to be a modern little mommy, this book is not for you. If you want to give your daughter options as to different occupations, buy this book along with books that emphasize other occupations.

Good grief - everyone calm down. Reviewers saying this book left them damaged - sweet mercy! Give me a break. This is a sweet OLDER book - and it's called Little MOMMY. MOMMY. If you want Little Welder or Little Stock Trader, go search that title.The book is sweet and loving and shows the many ways a mom can care for others (something I wish my own mom had done).

Precious book! Very inspiring for little girls!!! My granddaughter does enjoy it!! Beautiful images!!

The cutest Little Golden Book out there!

My 2 1/2-year-old daughter LOVES this book. She brings it to me every day for me to read it to her. The story is simple and delightful: a little girl who is a mommy to her dolls. She does everything for her dolls that her mommy would do for her. She cleans the house, washes the clothes, cooks, takes care of a sick dolly, hosts her neighbor for a tea party, and puts her dolls to bed. The book is written in rhyming couplets that are easy and fun for a parent to read and a child to remember. My daughter has this book memorized and often sits "reading" it to herself. I would give this book 10 stars if I could. It is wholesome, sweet, and something a young child can easily relate to.

Truly the sweetest book to pair with a baby doll, stroller or high chair for a gift!

Really cute. My 4 y/o loves it. I love it. We read it every night. Don't read it or buy it if you will be "triggered" by the "microaggression" that the little girl takes care of her baby, while the little boy goes to work, to to take care of the "family." Not an acceptable way of life to teach your kids anymore according to today's standards. If, however, you can accept that some people live this way, then try this book.As a mom of 7 I'm here to tell you - that little girls like to play with baby dolls and most of them are hard-wired that way. And this book is just a sweet little story written by someone that clearly watched a little girl play with, and love her baby doll. My youngest girl loves reading a book in which a little girl plays just like she does..and she can say, "I do that!" My teenage girl loves reading it it her. Come to think of it...the five older brothers have all loved reading it to her too.

This is the book I read to my children....I love the words and the illustrations....now I read it to my grandchildren. In the 60's and 70's we mothers and women weren't so anal about whether were stay at home moms or moms who wanted or needed to work outside the home......we weren't affronted if our husbands went to work and we stayed home, if we so chose. Some of us....... all my college friends, acquaintances, neighbors and sisters were happy with America and American traditions. If a family member or neighbor or friend worked we didn't berate her and tell her she needed to stay at home with her children. But those who worked didn't berate us and tell us we were lazy and mindless and stupid because we chose to be stay at home moms. I worked out of the home when I needed to and I stayed at home when I wanted to. I respected women who had to work and admired them for being able to work outside the home and still be fabulous, caring moms. In my opinion these women who are insulted and affronted when they read this book, need to chill. My children grew up to be balanced, happy adults even though I read this book to them often...they loved it. Today, some of my daughters and daughters-in law work and some don't. Working moms, don't be so opinionated, you'll be less stressed, happier, and healthier.