“Small. Ball. The point of a pin. Then it divides … Our story begins.” A deft, skillful blending of information and anticipation in a rhyming text documents the gestation of a human baby and a little girl and her family’s preparations for the arrival of a new family member. Each spread features an image showing the development of the fetus on the left hand side—clearly labeled with the trimester, month and weeks of gestation—with the family’s activities on the right. While it would have been helpful to have the actual size of the egg, zygote and embryo in the first three page spreads clearly differentiated visually from the illustrated size (the remaining images are illustrated actual size), the end matter provides helpful additional information about the illustrations, in which the images are based on the 40-week gestation period used in medicine and science. More about babies in general is also provided at the end of a volume that concludes with the young Asian American girl and her family welcoming their newest member. (Ages 3–7)