Added to the Lisbon Public Library collection in celebration of the birth of Caleb William Tompert. Review from Children's Literature: The Schuberts call attention to how the behavior of animal parents all over the world resembles that of human parents. Animals also need two parents, although the roles of each parent differ from creature to creature. Some fathers take some responsibility, but most of the time the main job is done by mothers, alone or in a group. Animal babies are born more or less helpless. They receive different kinds of food and different training as they grow. Then they leave to start their own families, in many ways just ?like people.? Visualizing this natural history in double-page, naturalistic watercolors, the Schuberts project a benign world with sets of loving animals. Comprehensive scenes alternate with specific close-ups of individual animals or small groups. There are no scenes of hunting violence. The final scene of singing mice, while perhaps not realistic, is appealing. Otherwise, there is a wealth of factual information in this simple narrative. Reviewer: Ken Marantz and Sylvia Marantz