Little girl doings set in a big city suburb, make this fine read-aloud stories for everyday and for a prelude to getting a baby sister. Around their summer home, six-year-old Susan makes new friends at the playground in the park and at the beach. When Grandmother comes to visit, Mother, who has been dressed in comfortably flowing top jackets throughout Kathleen Voute's black and white drawings, goes to the hospital to have her baby and Susan is thrilled with the outcome. Companionable.