Secrets of the Baby Whisperer for Toddlers -- by Tracy Hogg, Melinda Blau (Authors) (Book - Parent)
"Using real-life examples, Hogg shows how parents, sometimes unwittingly, sabotage their own parenting through their anxious behavior. When a mother talks about how nothing seems to hold her son's...
Ages 13 years and up.
Keep the Siblings, Lose the Rivalry -- by Todd Cartmell (Author) (Book - Parent)
"For most of us, dreams of family harmony and cooperation often give way to the reality of squabbling and fighting between siblings. In Keep the Siblings, Lose the Rivalry, Dr. Todd Cartmell explodes...
All Ages
Age groups: Preschool/Kindergarten (3-5), School Age (6-12)
Living with a Brother or Sister with Special Needs: A book for siblings -- by Patricia Vadasy, Donald Meyer (Authors) (Book - Parent)
Living with a Brother or Sister with Special Needs" focuses on the intensity of emotions that brothers and sisters experience when they have a sibling with special needs, and the hard questions they...
All Ages
Age groups: Adolescence (13-21), Adulthood (22+)
Peter's Chair -- by Ezra Keats (Author) (Book - Child)
"When Peter discovers his blue furniture is being painted pink for a new baby sister, he rescues the last unpainted item, a chair, and runs away." From amazon.com
All Ages
Age groups: Toddlerhood (1-3), Preschool/Kindergarten (3-5)
Max -- by Rachel Isadora (Author) (Book - Child)
"Max finds a new way to warm up for his Saturday baseball game--his sister's dancing class." From Card Catalog
All Ages
Age groups: Toddlerhood (1-3), Preschool/Kindergarten (3-5)
The Drinking Gourd: A Story of the Underground Railroad -- by F.N. Monjo (Author) (Book - Child)
"The stars of the Big DIpper have led a runaway slave family to Deacon Fuller's house, a stop on the underground railroad. Will Tommy Fuller be able to hide the runaways from a search party--or will...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
The Egypt Game -- by Zilpha Snyder (Author) (Book - Child)
"Two girls get involved in an elaborate 'Egypt game,' a fantasy game that soon leads to strange, unexplainable happenings. PW called the characters in Snyder's Newbery Honor winner 'true originals.'" ...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Amy's Eyes -- by Richard Kennedy (Author) (Book - Child)
"Amy's sailor doll turns into a real live person, and she becomes a doll in this epic voyage that blends humor, fairy tale and adventure." From Publishers Weekly
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
The Book of Three -- by Lloyd Alexander (Author) (Book - Child)
"The tale of Taran, assistant pig keeper, has been entertaining young readers for generations. Set in the mythical land of Prydain (which bears a more than passing resemblance to Wales), Lloyd...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Across Five Aprils -- by Irene Hunt (Author) (Book - Child)
"Narrator Terry Bregy adopts an appropriately boyish tone for his reading of Across Five Aprils By Irene Hunt, A Newbery Honor Book in 1965. Bregy compels readers to hear young Jethro Creighton's...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)