From a bestselling author-illustrator team comes a heartwarming picture book in verse about the deep and lasting bond between a mother and her child.

No time is a dreamier time than when a new baby is on the way, and in this gorgeous book a mother tells her little one about all the dreams and promises and love she had for him or her even before they met. Laura Krauss Melmed’s gentle verse and Jing Jing Tsong’s lush, vibrant illustrations make this a wonderfully fresh look at the love between a mom and her baby. An ode from an expectant mother to her unborn child. Written in first person, rhyming verses find a mother sharing her hopes and envisioning her new life after she births her baby. Each verse begins with the line "Before we met, I dreamt…"as the mother imagines meeting the child she is carrying in her womb. Melmed offers vivid imagery of the baby's features: skin that is "softer than a flower" and a cry that is "sudden as a shower." On the last three pages the mother meets her baby face to face. Here the mood transformsfrom introspective to celebratory....Melmed captures the unconditional love an expectantmother has for her baby. The book's soothing rhymes are an invitation to repeated bedtime readings. Tsong's ethereal illustrations echo the book's dreamanalogy, depicting the mother with long black hair and possibly Asian features.The colors begin with blues and purples as dark as night. Page by page, thecolors lighten with splashes of shades of red and orange before exploding intoa sunrise....