Baby (MacLachlan novel)

Baby is a 1995 novel by Patricia MacLachlan. It explores the themes of family and abandonment through a store of a family who discovers a baby and has to care for it. With the baby, is a short note, explaining why the baby was left, and with brief information about her.

It was also adapted into a 2000 made-for-TV movie directed by Robert Allan Ackerman and starring Farrah Fawcett, Keith Carradine, and Jean Stapleton.

Reception

Horn Book noted that the age of the book's intended audience was unclear but that it should still be read.[1] Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books called it an "excellent selection for early chapter book readers"[2]The International Reader's Association put it on its 1994 list of books good for teaching.[3]

gollark: > If they're fit to rule they will survive.I mean, kind of? If you randomly remove governments *somehow* when they run into some kind of issue, I figure you would introduce far more problems.
gollark: That would probably be bad. Governments do important things. Sometimes.
gollark: Big governments are ALWAYS in debt. They seem to magically materialize money somehow.
gollark: Indeed. Governments really need better APIs.
gollark: I suspect many office jobs could be automated fairly easily if anyone actually cared.

References
  1. M. M. B. “Baby.” Horn Book Magazine, vol. 69, no. 6, Nov. 1993, p. 746. EBSCOhost.
  2. Morrison, Hope. "Fly Away by Patricia MacLachlan (review)." Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, vol. 67 no. 10, 2014, pp. 530-530. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/bcc.2014.0500
  3. “Teachers’ Choices for 1994.” Reading Teacher, vol. 48, no. 3, Nov. 1994, p. 239. EBSCOhost.


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