Atinuke is a Nigerian-born author who started her career
doing traditional oral storytelling. Her books include a Boston
Globe–Horn Book Honor Winner, a Notable Book for a Global Society,
a Cybils Award Winner, and an Africana Award Winner. She lives in
Wales.
Angela Brooksbank worked as a designer and art director in
children’s book publishing before turning her hand to her own
illustration. Baby Goes to Market is her debut picture book. She
lives in London.
The smiling, all-black cast sort through myriad wares, while the
text keeps up its rhythm, introducing both typical items bought in
a West African market and a gentle lesson in arithmetic as Baby
alternately snacks and stashes his gifts. Indeed, no one will be
able to resist this baby.
—Kirkus Reviews
The vibrant marketplace is filled with color, texture, and patterns
created using a mixed-media palette. The opening and ending
endpapers feature the same pattern that is on the wrap Mama uses to
hold Baby on her back. Young listeners will delight in getting to
know Baby and his Mama as they shop throughout the market. Consider
for first purchase in larger collections.
—School Library Journal
Brooksbank's illustrations, based on her own childhood memories of
going to market in Nigeria, are full of colours, patterns and
prints, and varieties of local transport. Repetition and variation
make the book especially good for the young, and its wealth visual
detail promises many satisfying rereadings.
—Saturday Star
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