Baby (MacLachlan novel)
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Baby is a 1995 children's novel by Patricia MacLachlan. It explores the themes of family and abandonment through the story of a family who has experienced loss, but discovers a baby girl left on their doorstep, with the only information about her on a short note. The story is told from the perspective of a girl named Larkin, whose family discovers and cares for the baby. The book features and references several poems, including one by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
It was adapted into a 2000 TV movie directed by Robert Allan Ackerman and starring Farrah Fawcett, Keith Carradine, and Jean Stapleton.
Reception[edit]
Horn Book noted that the age of the book's intended audience was unclear but that it should still be read.[1] Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books called it an "excellent selection for early chapter book readers".[2] The International Reader's Association put it on its 1994 list of books good for teaching.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ M. M. B. "Baby", Horn Book Magazine, vol. 69, no. 6, Nov. 1993, p. 746. EBSCOhost.
- ^ Morrison, Hope. "Fly Away by Patricia MacLachlan (review)". Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, vol. 67 no. 10, 2014, pp. 530-530. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/bcc.2014.0500
- ^ "Teachers' Choices for 1994", Reading Teacher, vol. 48, no. 3, Nov. 1994, p. 239. EBSCOhost.
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