Description

Published by Exposition Press [Published date: 1982]. Hard cover, 54 p. Stated First Edition. Inscribed (personalized) and signed by Author opposite title page. Good in acceptable dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with black lettering on spine. Light scuffing, fading and soiling to edges of covers. Binding tight. Light spotting to edges of text block. Otherwise pages are unmarked. Dust jacket has several chips and tears and creasing along edges and spine. Moderate overall scuffing, aging and soiling to jacket as well with a bit of the color scuffed off along the edges and spine. Price clipped. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Black and white illustrations. Directed toward an older juvenile audience, this book explains sex and prenatal development from the point of view of the fetus. [from jacket flaps] Charlie's having a hard time. He's cooped up in a dark little place that hardly gives him room to move. And he keeps hearing these strange voices coming from outside-talking about all kinds of strange things. Sometimes somebody even bangs on the wall! The worst thing is that Charlie knows he'll have to stay inside nine months before he has a chance to get out! In this delightful book, Charlie is going through an experience that everybody has to go through. Charlie, you see., wasn't "born yesterday," and he hasn't been "born again" - he hasn't been born at all! In fact, Charlie is what those strange voices he hears call a fetus - and he's just waiting to be born!While Charlie's waiting, he learns a lot about the outside world and about what's happening to him in his dark little place. He knows about somebody called "mom." Charlie and his mom are very close. You might say they go everywhere together - to the grocery store, where Charlie hears about rising prices, and to mom's bridge party, where Charlie finds out some mighty puzzling things. Charlie also discovers a person called 'dad.' Mom and dad do a lot of talking about things like 'heart' and 'circulation' and 'skeleton' and Charlie finds out that these are things that are building up in him - and he shows just how they get started and grow. Of course, there are times when mom and dad are together and don't do any talking. Charlie really wonder what's going on then! As Charlie learns about himself he realizes that there's a lot more to him than just block and bones. In the five parts of the heart, for example, he learns that the most important thing is love - which is something he's feeling for his parents and knows that they're feeling for him. And there's so much else that Charlie learns and tells about as he waits for the big day. Every ready will want to share Charlie's adventures. Charlie is a book for everyone who has ever been born!