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This is my most loved book in the whole world and has been since I was a young girl. I first saw it at my friend's house when I was about ten and I longed to buy it but couldn't find a copy in the stores. She lent it to me for some time and I was so pleased. When I was in my twenties, I found a copy and was so happy to actually own it. I now have three copies and cherish each one. My favourite picture in the book is the one depicting the mother with her new baby daughter in the pram and her older daughter with Baby Dear in her carriage. There is a little dog frolicking about with them as they all walk on a country road. This book embodied and represented to me a dream and hope that one day I would be the mother in that picture with my daughter and we would be walking with our babies. This came true - right down to the dog and the country road! As my daughters were growing up, I bought more of Eloise Wilkin's books because I love, love her illustrations of babies and children. My husband and I read all of the books over and over to our daughters and then they read them themselves and the books found new homes on their shelves. Gradually, I reclaimed the books as our daughters grew older and then grew up and presently the collection, albeit a little tattered, is in a special place on my bookshelf again. Now, at almost fifty eight years old, I still love reading them and am always misty eyed when I look upon that beloved illustration of my dream come true in "Baby Dear".
