Ten little fingers and ten little toes and the joy and the hopes of parents around the globe...that's what little babies are made of. It doesn't matter if you are born in the land of ice or come out the door of a tent in the desert, babies are babies no matter where they begin! So goes the message of the liltingly rhyming new croonable gem from Mem Fox and Helen Oxenbury. The gently diverse babies crawl and cry and look out at us with such great expectations. The prose rhymes on, "And both of these babies as everyone knows, had ten little fingers and ten little toes." The babies gather together magically from around the world in two's and five's and they swing and they play with great glee. And the rhythm, like a mother's heartbeat, plays on and the love is universal. This is another magical read aloud from Mem Fox and the quietly reassuring illustrations from Helen Oxenbury offer the possibility of dignity, acceptance and celebration for all babies. 40 pages Ages Infants to 4