For Baby (For Bobbie)

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Author: John Denver
Illustrator: Janeen Mason

Retail Price: Paperback • $8.95 | Hardback with CD • $19.95
Overstock Sale Price: Paperback • $4.48 | Hardback with CD • $9.98

This love song by John Denver adapted as a picture book makes a great a baby gift, but it also will help set a calm sweet mood in a classroom. Sunny, colorful illustrations show families and animals from around the world as the song’s lyrics express unconditional love. It’s a wonderful teaching tool for young children of how parents—both human and non-human—love their children in very much the same way all over the world. A map in the back and a description of the animals shown will help spark discussion with your young ones. The song is one of the most beautiful John Denver ever wrote; the CD comes with the hardback edition.

Book Details

Awards

Indep. Book Publishers Assn. of America Benjamin Franklin Silver Award
Foreward Magazine Book of the Year Award (Finalist)
iParenting Media Award

Reviews

John Denver’s For Baby (For Bobbie) is a beautiful adaptation/interpretation of a famous love song that has been interpreted as reflecting either parent/child or romantic young love. A Sharing Nature with Children book, For Baby contains wonderful brightly colored paintings of animals and people all around the world. At the end of the book, which contains the text of the song, is a world map and guide to all the animals shown in the illustrations, plus a copy of the song and more background information about John Denver’s experiences writing the song. John Denver’s For Baby (For Bobbie) is a touching encasing of a beloved classic love song that will delight parents and children alike. It is suitable for ages 3 and up.

— Midwest Book Review (October 2009)

This is one of the first songs that John Denver ever recorded. It is one of the most beautiful that he ever wrote. In this book, toddlers and parents meet various animals along the way. John Denver orginally wrote it as a love song for a girl named Bobbie. The colorfull scenes from around the world illustrate such beaufitul lines as, “I’ll walk in the rain by your side, I’ll cling to the warmth of your hand”. Mary Travers (of Peter, Paul & Mary) heard the song differently and sang it as a love song for her daughter, a love song froma woman to a newborn child. The author did the beautiful illustrations in this book. Children will really enjoy reading and looking at this book. This book is the fifth one of the “John Denver & Kids” picture book series.

John Denver’s grandmother gave him his first guitar at the age of seven and another at the age of twelve. He loved to sing and play and by the 1970s, he was one of the America’s most popular musicians. Janeen Mason is an accomplished artist, a member of the Florida Arts Council and an illustrator of numberous children’s picture books.

— The Nashville News – Mary Barrett (October 2009)

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