This gorgeous little book packs so much diversity into its beautiful artwork! My daughter delighted in children who looked liked her and families that look like ours! Any family looking for a diverse children's book should pick this one up IMMEDIATELY!

I love this book as it depicts kids from all over the world and how they are carried. Simple language and nice pictures help create an interesting read for young children.

This is a fabulous book. The illustrations are beautiful and display a tremendous amount of diversity of different types of families and different family members. The characters are all different colors and races and the family makeup is so variably structured that it just shines through.

The illustrations are wonderful. They are done by cutting and pasting layers of paper and it makes them look three-dimensional. This is a good book for teaching about diversity and multiculturalism.

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"Up" is a beautiful picture book displaying diverse families, lifestyles and communities and how they carry their young children. I truly appreciated the author's dedication to showing families from around the world as well as people of varying abilities. This book would be an excellent addition to an early childhood study of families or different cultures. I am looking forward to sharing this with my class.

I enjoyed this book but I think that maybe it could have done with the country names on the pages to show how the different families carry the children in those areas (to help children learn a bit more), that said its has lovely artwork, the story is nice and is visually pleasing overall.

Simple book with a lot of diversity in the illustrations.

I love the illustrations of this book. It also shows kids that no matter what your race, we all love.

Babies from around the world are lifted into the arms of those that love them in this beautifully illustrated and multicultural book! Perfect for helping little ones learn all about the similarities and differences of others, this book would be a great addition to any elementary classroom!

I liked “Up,” but I wish they would have said what country they were featuring. Also, the style of carrying the babies wasn’t exclusive to certain countries in most cases, so it was more about ways to carry kids in general. Still cute.

4 stars

“From West Africa to Peru, from Egypt to Canada’s Far North, from Korea to India, from Poland to China and Afghanistan and the place you call home, all around the world, families carry their babies in many different ways. Come join us and see . . . ”


Clever, colourful collage brings the illustrations of this cute book to life. When the author says “families” she means everybody. This shows parents, grandparents, cousins, big sisters, Dad in a wheelchair – all different colours and ages.

And when she says “around the world” she shows us a baby in the hood of Granny’s Eskimo parka, a baby in sari-clad Auntie’s sling, and two little ones in the baskets at each end of a pole carried across Chinese uncle’s shoulders.

The people and backgrounds are international, but the language is all English, and the catch-phrase is “Upsy-Daisy” as each person lifts and carries the tot. Kids will like the repetition.

Very cute, and I think all families and carers of young kids will find a page that a child can relate to. And I think anything that celebrates all the things we have in common – looking after our little ones – is to be commended.

Thanks to NetGalley and Owlkids Books for a preview copy.

This is a great book depicting various family makeups as well as diversity. Using babies and how they are carried, they show families from around the world. The illustrations are wonderful. They are done by cutting and pasting layers of paper and it makes them look three-dimensional. This is a good book for family libraries as well as kits in a school library when teaching about diversity and multiculturalism.

GORGEOUS 3-dimensional paper art. I felt like I could just reach out and touch it. Inclusive of gender, culture, and ability, with people of all different ages and sizes. Colorful, fun, happy... this one is a must-buy.

Heartwarming and beautifully illustrated, this book is especially recommended for storytimes with a baby and an older sibling.

I liked this book. I think the title needs shorted to just be Up, or Upsy Daisy. It is a look at various ways babies are carried. It has nice artwork, a nice story, and is visually pleasing.

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I love this book as it depicts kids from all over the world and how they are cared for. Simple language and nice pictures help create an interesting read for young children. Would be a good book for a multicultural family kit.