Mama’s Milk / Mamá me alimenta

Michael Elsohn Ross ∙ Illustrated by Ashley Wolff

Board Book

Published on Mar 8, 2016 | 24 Pages

Amazon Barnes & Noble Books A Million Bookshop.org Target Walmart

Grades Up to Kindergarten
Ages 2–5

Celebrating the warm and loving bond between mammal mamas and their babies, this lushly illustrated book shows little ones doing what comes naturally-nursing. A perfect choice for cuddling up with a breast-feeding child or preschoolers who wonder how new babies get fed.

Now available as an English/Spanish edition in both hardcover and paperback.

More than 20,000 copies sold.

Backmatter spread includes 20 fascinating nursing facts.

ISBN 9780553538748 (Board Book)
Published on Mar 8, 2016
Published by Tricycle Press
Pages 24
Dimensions 7 x 7
Age Range 2-5 years
Grade Up to Kindergarten

Michael Elsohn Ross

Michael Elsohn Ross is the award-winning author of over 40 books for young people. His bedtime book, Snug as a Bug, is a Bank Street College, Best Book of the Year. His newest books are Mama’s Milk and Play With Me.

Michael grew up in Huntington, New York. He had an early interest in art and nature. After graduating from UC Berkeley with a B.S. in Conservation of Natural resources in 1974 Michael moved to Yosemite National Park, CA. He has worked as a naturalist and environmentalist in the park for 31 years. His work with adults and children has motivated him to create children’s books about the natural world. Over the last 20 years he has been promoting play-based science environments where young people can freely explore, question, and discover. Michael received his credential in Early Childhood Education from CSU Fresno in 1981. Over the years he has worked with very young children in a variety of programs. In the early 1990s he wrote garden-based science curriculum for Life Lab Science Program at UC Santa Cruz. As he field tested the curriculum and watched students, he became convinced that when children could engage in explorative play they would excel at scientific investigation. He became convinced that children are natural born scientists. Following this project he started work on a book that would celebrate scientists at play. The result was Sandbox Scientist (a Smithsonian Notable Book). This was followed by Cricketology, a Scientific American Young Reader’s award winner, and seven books in the Backyard Buddies series. This series encourages children to answer their own questions about common “bugs” and provides examples of experiments devised by students at his local schools. Kitchen Lab, which landed on the Science Books & Film 2003 Best Books List, and the three other titles in the You Are the Scientist series follow the same approach with science that kids can do at home.

Ashley Wolff

Ashley Wolff is the author and/or illustrator of over 55 children’s picture books including I Love My Mommy Because and I Love My Daddy Because, Stella and Roy Go Camping, Me Baby, You Baby, The Wild Little Horse, Who Took the Cookies from the Cookie Jar?, I Call My Grandma Nana and the beloved Miss Bindergarten Series. Her books have won numerous state and national awards.