# help identify "Single Boy" Children's book **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 16, 2018, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-single-boy-childrens-book/821461 "2018-09-16T21:07:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2018, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-single-boy-childrens-book/821461/21 "2018-09-18T00:28:28Z")
When I was trying to work it out, I went into Photoshop, undistorted the pic, [and drew this](https://www.dropbox.com/s/tclk25fzyc5rcom/Smile.jpg?dl=0) hoping image search would work. It didn’t so I completely abandoned that avenue. Maybe I should’ve pursued it. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2018, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-single-boy-childrens-book/821461/22 "2018-09-18T01:08:08Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > When I was trying to work it out, I went into Photoshop, undistorted the pic, [and drew this](https://www.dropbox.com/s/tclk25fzyc5rcom/Smile.jpg?dl=0) hoping image search would work. It didn’t so I completely abandoned that avenue. Maybe I should’ve pursued it. Now that would give a kid nightmares! There is also a less-catchily named [Spanish version of the book](https://books.google.com/books/about/No_llores_Chiquitin_Smile_Baby_Smile.html?id=jeZrPQAACAAJ). You know, when I was in first grade we had a similar little library in a corner of the room, and I always remembered a book from there that featured a little (anatomically correct) naked boy running around doing stuff. For years when something brought that book to mind I would wonder WTF that was, until eventually the magic of Google came along, and I learned that it was (let’s see who knows it without the spoilers) The Night Kitchen by Maurice “Wild Thing” Sendak. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2018, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-single-boy-childrens-book/821461/23 "2018-09-18T01:22:13Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > It is profoundly fuzzy (where is my “zoom and enhance”!?) but my eyes are wanting to see “Smile Baby.” Googling for books with that title gives me _Smile, Baby, Smile_ by Moria Butterfield. I didn’t see a cover with an exact match, but [this one](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7558276-smile-baby-smile) has a curved “smile” shape under the second use of the word Smile, and having primed my mind to that, I can see the same feature in the book in your photos. I’m around 99 percent confident that it is an edition of that book. Very impressive! That is definitely it. Only [one in stock on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Smile-Baby-Picture-Books-Large/dp/1405494352/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1537233642&sr=1-1), Hurry up China Guy! There are more of the board book version, but it has a different cover. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2018, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-single-boy-childrens-book/821461/24 "2018-09-18T02:09:14Z")
Dang, you guys are good! Ordered! Thank you all. Maybe my copy is a little clearer, but once Smile Baby Smile was figured out, then I can see it. Cover seems slightly different from my photo but who cares? ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2018, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-single-boy-childrens-book/821461/25 "2018-09-18T03:14:24Z")
That was some impressive detective work! China Guy, sure hope your daughter enjoys that book again. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2018, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-single-boy-childrens-book/821461/26 "2018-09-18T03:49:28Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > It is profoundly fuzzy (where is my “zoom and enhance”!?) but my eyes are wanting to see “Smile Baby.” Googling for books with that title gives me _Smile, Baby, Smile_ by Moria Butterfield. I didn’t see a cover with an exact match, but [this one](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7558276-smile-baby-smile) has a curved “smile” shape under the second use of the word Smile, and having primed my mind to that, I can see the same feature in the book in your photos. I’m around 99 percent confident that it is an edition of that book. DG - really impressive. I drew a blank but you got it! My daughter spends a lot of time looking at family photos. This one was buried in somewhere among the thousands, and she asked me for help on the book several times. After striking out on my ownself, I turned to the Dope. I’ll post an update after the book gets here. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2018, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-single-boy-childrens-book/821461/27 "2018-09-18T03:52:21Z")
Here’s a [lady reading it on youtube.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jHv6t7hzfE) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2018, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-single-boy-childrens-book/821461/28 "2018-09-18T05:24:37Z")
> [@China\_Guy](#): > > My daughter spends a lot of time looking at family photos. This one was buried in somewhere among the thousands, and she asked me for help on the book several times. After striking out on my ownself, I turned to the Dope. I’ll post an update after the book gets here. Hope it works out well for her and hadn’t been visited by[the suck fairy](https://www.tor.com/2010/09/28/the-suck-fairy/). ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2018, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-single-boy-childrens-book/821461/29 "2018-09-30T18:27:19Z")
Coming back to share that China Bambina got her book and opened it today. It is what she remembered. Here’s a link: [Smile Babe Smile - Google Drive](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1zIPVP9b5PYCcHCzB4T8KTJJfoedvtzqn) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2018, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-single-boy-childrens-book/821461/30 "2018-09-30T21:55:08Z")
Cool. Glad that worked out. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-single-boy-childrens-book/821461/31 "2018-10-01T00:43:13Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > On closer examination, [that _is_ the exact same cover](https://www.booktopia.com.au/http_coversbooktopiacomau/big/9781405494359/smile-baby-smile.jpg) as the book on the shelf. Well done sir! ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-single-boy-childrens-book/821461/32 "2018-10-01T03:31:32Z")
Bravo! ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2018, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-single-boy-childrens-book/821461/33 "2018-10-02T19:20:11Z")
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