correction
An earlier version of this article incorrectly said the book “Everywhere Babies” was removed from public school libraries in Walton County, Fla. The book was included on a list of books targeted for removal in Walton County, but the book is not among the library’s holdings. The 24 books on the list that were located by staff were all removed. The article and headline have been corrected.
The inspiration for the popular children’s picture book “Everywhere Babies” came to author Susan Meyers more than 25 years ago, after the birth of her first grandchild. It was around Christmas, she recalls, and she kept seeing Nativity scenes everywhere — baby Jesus embraced by his doting mother, surrounded by kindly visitors. Meyers, deeply smitten with her 5-month-old grandson, was struck by the everyday, extraordinary miracle of babies in their earliest months of life, how their development touches the lives of everyone around them. So she decided to write about it.
