Pre-K – 1st grade students will get a number of chuckles out of Big Bad Baby by author Bruce Hale and illustrator Steve Breen.  The highly farcical story begins with a toddler who goes from doing multiple wrong things in his home to hypo-morphing into a giant baby that creates giant disasters in his town.  Leave it to mom to enlist the ever-calming power of the big blue baby blanket, hoisting bad baby away via helicopters back his home and in his mother’s arms.  The always collected mother says that even “Big bad babies need love too” to which baby replies “Gee-gah goo” and “…in bad, bad baby talk means…’I’ll be back.'”  A cute story becomes more worthwhile because of the illuminative illustrations, especially that of the faces of the characters.  They are so well done that this would be a great book to use to discuss the idea of reading body language and facial expression.  The fun nature of the entire story makes this a recommended selection.