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Cuthbert's Babies

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Illustrator
  
Pamela Allen

Language
  
English

Pages
  
unpaginated (28)

Author
  
Pamela Allen

Country
  
Australia

3.3/5
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Cover artist
  
Pamela Allen

Media type
  
Print (paperback)

Originally published
  
2003

Genre
  
Picture book

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Publisher
  
Penguin Books Australia

Similar
  
Pamela Allen books, Infant books

Cuthbert's Babies is a 2003 children's picture book written and illustrated by Pamela Allen. It is about a boy who resents the arrival of baby quadruplets and how he accepts them.

Reception

Cuthbert's Babies has been reviewed by Reading Time and Good Reading magazine that wrote "Although not remarkable, this is another solid book from a favourite Australian author/illustrator." while The New Zealand Herald called it "a hilarious tale".

Miyuki Hisaoka in discussing "social roles within a family structure" noted that "Cuthbert's Babies arrives at an analogous conclusion, with Cuthbert and his mother lying on his bed reading a book together in a reprise of the opening page" and "that readers can align with Cuthbert's feeling of alienation without particularly emphathizing with him".

It has also been used in schools, was on the 2004 Storylines Notable Book Awards Picture Books List. and won the 2004 New Zealand Post Book Award in the Picture Book category.

References

Cuthbert's Babies Wikipedia