Getting Near to Baby

Blurb

Getting Near to Baby is a 1999 children's novel by Audrey Couloumbis. It was awarded a Newbery Honor in 2000 and is an ALA Notable Children's Book. The book's target age range is for readers between the ages of 10 to 14. Getting Near to Baby, was influenced through the authors personal experience as a child, as her aunt experienced the death of her child, because of cystic fibrosis. At the same time a family living nearby had died of bacterial illness, by drinking tainted water.