My Place In The Band (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798995201809)

Lumi has a few hours before everything changes.

The baby is coming today. And Lumi's imagination is already running wild. She has questions. Big ones. What if the baby plays guitar, just like her? What if the baby has tattoos like Mom and Dad? What if there is no room left in the band for her?

She is not going to wait and find out.

What follows involves a press-on Halloween tattoo, a costume sleeve borrowed from Dad, a box of markers, and one very sudsy bath that undoes everything.

My Place In The Band is a funny, tender, and emotionally honest picture book for ages 3 to 7 about the fear of not belonging, the lengths we go to feel like we fit, and the surprising discovery that your place was never in danger to begin with.

Features illustrations of tattooed parents in a warm, multicultural family setting.

This isn't a book about parents who didn't have the talk. Lumi has known for months. She's been told, prepared, reassured. But the day the baby actually arrives is a different animal entirely, and no amount of explaining prepares a child for that. What takes over is imagination, and what imagination does with fear is the whole story.

Most books about new siblings tell kids what to feel. They say: be excited, be helpful, be ready. My Place In The Band doesn't do that. It walks right beside the child who isn't sure yet, who has real fears and weird plans and big feelings that don't have names, and it trusts them to find their own way through.

Just a kid, a family, and the discovery that love doesn't divide when it grows... it just gets louder.

Perfect for families welcoming a new sibling, for kids who need to know they are irreplaceable, and for anyone who has ever drawn on themselves with a marker and hoped for the best.