{"id":918109,"date":"2026-10-06T11:24:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T11:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/918109\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T11:24:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T11:24:30","slug":"jimmy-fallon-teams-with-mlb-for-yankees-dodgers-childrens-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/918109\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Fallon Teams With MLB for Yankees, Dodgers Children\u2019s Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Jimmy Fallon<\/a> is going back to the book that launched his side career as a children\u2019s author\u2014this time, with a Major League Baseball twist.<\/p>\n

On Monday night\u2019s Tonight Show<\/a>, Fallon announced that he is partnering with MLB on two new books: Your Baby\u2019s First Word Will Be Yankees and Your Baby\u2019s First Word Will Be Dodgers.<\/p>\n

\u201cParents spend months of their lives trying to get their babies to say \u2018Mama\u2019 or \u2018Dada,\u2019\u201d Fallon told the audience. \u201cSome parents dream bigger.\u201d<\/p>\n

He then revealed the two books.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been working on this for a while,\u201d Fallon said. \u201cThey\u2019re available for pre-order now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Written by Fallon and illustrated by longtime collaborator Miguel Ord\u00f3\u00f1ez, the 32-page board books are set to be released February 2, 2027. <\/p>\n

Each is essentially a team-specific spin on Fallon\u2019s first children\u2019s book, the 2015 bestseller Your Baby\u2019s First Word Will Be DADA, with farm animals enlisted to help parents convince their kids that \u201cYankees\u201d or \u201cDodgers\u201d should take precedence in their vocabulary.<\/p>\n

The two books extend an increasingly sizable children\u2019s-book bibliography for Fallon. Since DADA, he has released Everything Is MAMA, This Is BABY, NANA Loves You More, and PAPA Doesn\u2019t Do Anything! (But Love You). He also wrote 5 More Sleeps \u2019til Christmas and 5 More Sleeps \u2019til Halloween, and co-wrote the bilingual children\u2019s book Con Pollo with Jennifer Lopez.<\/p>\n

Fallon\u2019s forays in children\u2019s publishing put him in some familiar company. Late-night stars have become unusually prolific children\u2019s-book authors, with Jimmy Kimmel<\/a>, Seth Meyers<\/a>, Stephen Colbert<\/a>, John Oliver<\/a>, and others all making the jump\u2014a trend LateNighter explored in 2024<\/a>, looking at the surprisingly natural overlap between writing jokes for adults and writing funny, economical stories for kids.<\/p>\n

The timing of Fallon\u2019s new baseball books is particularly convenient. Both teams whose names he\u2019s hoping babies will learn are still playing in October: the Yankees and Dodgers are each competing in the 2026 MLB postseason.<\/p>\n

Pre-orders are open now<\/a> for both books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Fallon is going back to the book that launched his side career as a children\u2019s author\u2014this time,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":918110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,6517,1187,591,2704,85,115425],"class_list":["post-918109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-jimmy-fallon","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports","tag-the-tonight-show-starring-jimmy-fallon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}