We Like to Nurse: A Book Review
My rating: 
5 out of 5.
Details: Children’s paperback book published in 1994.
Subject: Nursing mammals (which include humans!)
Appropriate age of child: age 6 months and up.
Languages: also available in the Spanish version Nos Gusta Amamantar
Cons: I’d love to see a board book version of this. The paperback book is printed with fairly sturdy paper and there is a hardcover edition (although when I checked Amazon.com the hardcover edition was not currently available).
Pros: Purposefully simplistic yet engaging with illustrations and text that appeal to mothers and young children alike.
The engaging children’s book We Like to Nurse capitalizes on children’s love of animals as it shares the important message that all mammals–animal and human–like to nurse. This is one of the few children’s books I’ve read that focuses entirely on nursing yet retains the simplicity and charm of other books for young children. It’s a children’s book that happens to be about nursing, not a nursing book that speaks down to children. Bright colors adorn realistic animal illustrations paired with basic text:
A zebra mommy munches grass while her baby nurses standing up.
The back of the version I read contained the following endorsement from Peggy O’Mara, Editor/Publisher of Mothering Magazine:
Any work of art that celebrates the profundity of the breastfeeding relationship is worthy of note. The art of this book is especially tender and vulnerable–open in the way that breastfeeding is–and opens up to the deeper feelings of this intimate relationship.
I whole-heartedly agree. It’s lovely to see the series of cuddling animal mothers and babies, culminating with the human mother and her infant nursling.
We Like to Nurse is written by Chia Martin and illustrated by Shukyo Lin Rainey.
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