Darcy and Gran Don't Like Babies is a children's book by Jane Cutler.
It focuses on a young girl, Darcy, who dislikes her baby brother due to thinking he's smelly and ugly, and commonly voices that dislike to people she meets. When, on a walk, her grandmother claims to not like babies either, Darcy realises that she likes her brother deep down.
This book provides examples of
- Annoying Younger Sibling: The reason Darcy doesn't like her baby brother is because she thinks he's stinky and ugly.
- Death Glare: Darcy is illustrated glaring after the neighbour claims she does like the baby.
- The Diaper Change: Darcy's father is seen changing the baby's diaper when she complains to the father that she doesn't like the baby.
- Eat Dirt, Cheap: At the park, the babies who are old enough to play in the sandbox are described as eating sand.
- Fantasy Sequence: When Gran says that Darcy's father is probably right about her growing to like her brother better when he's older, she imagines the two siblings older and playing together.
- Flashback: When Gran says that she thinks what Darcy's mother said about her being just like the baby when she was one, we see an illustration of Darcy's own infancy.
- Friend to All Children: Darcy's neighbour is sure that she must like her baby brother deep down, and she has twin toddler daughters of her own.
- Innocently Insensitive: When Darcy tells her neighbour that she doesn't like the baby, the neighbour responds, "Of course you do!". This makes Darcy angry, since to her it seems as though the neighbour is just being contrary, but later Gran explains that she probably just means deep down.
- Labcoat of Science and Medicine: The doctor is drawn wearing a labcoat.
- The Load: Discussed when Gran says one thing she doesn't like about babies is "all the work they make for everyone".
- No Full Name Given: Darcy's last name is unrevealed.
- No Name Given: Darcy's brother is solely referred to as "the baby", and the doctor and neighbour are also unnamed.
- "Not So Different" Remark: When Darcy tells her mother that she doesn't like the baby, her response is that "a long time ago", she was just like him.
- Unnamed Parent: Darcy's parents and grandmother are only referred to as "Darcy's mother", "Darcy's father", and "Gran".
- Verbal Tic: Gran starts a lot of her sentences with "I don't much like" or "I believe".
