Before You Foreword by Dominique Browning two eager children watch step-by-step

two eager children watch step-by-step as their new home is built over the course of a year

“I would everyone to check it out

” —Ruth Rendell

you and your family

Pakistani American artist Shahzia Sikander recounts how growing up as a tomboy in a multicultural home in Pakistan inspired her to become an artist

Before You Foreword by Dominique Browning two eager children watch step-by-stepA picture book celebrating the ways any new addition to a family brings joyful chaos and makes everyday experiences that much sweeter, warmer, better! Before you, there was a bath, a book, and a comfy bed. Then you came and now the bath is sudsier, the book is sillier, and the bed is bouncier! When a new child is introduced into a householdwhether they are being fostered, adopted or being welcomed as a newbornthere is always a before and an after.