Hardcovers: Child Care & Parenting
Edited by Dick Donahue and Skip Skwarek. Compiled by Alia Akkam, Natalie Danford, Diane Patrick, Sarah Robbins, Judith Rosen and Michelle Wildgen. -- Publishers Weekly, 6/29/2009
BANTAM
Child Sense: From Birth to Age 5, How to Use the 5 Senses to Make Sleeping, Eating, Dressing, and Other Everyday Activities Easier While Strengthening Your Bond with Your Child (Oct., $25) by Priscilla J. Dunstan.
FREE PRESS
You: Having a Baby—The Owner's Manual to a Happy and Healthy Pregnancy (Dec., $26.99) by Michael F. Roizen, M.D., and Mehmet C. Oz, M.D., answers expectant parents' questions on diverse topics.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT
Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow into Troublesome Gaps—And What We Can Do About It (Sept., $24) by Lise Eliot argues that boys' and girls' brains are largely shaped by how they spend their time. 35,000 first printing.
HUDSON STREET
Dangerous or Safe? (Oct., $25.95) by Cara Natterson, M.D., differentiates between foods, medicines and products that pose a threat to youngsters and those that are completely safe.
ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD EDUCATION
How to Walk to School (Sept., $24.95) by Jacqueline Edelberg and Susan Kurland describes how motivated parents transformed a challenged urban school into one of Chicago's best.
SOURCEBOOKS
Why Good Kids Act Cruel (Jan., $24.99) by Carl Pickhardt provides tools for understanding adolescent behavior and the long- and short-term effects of social cruelty.
TWELVE
Nurtureshock: New Thinking About Children (Sept., $24.99) by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman demonstrates how modern nurturing strategies are backfiring because key elements have been overlooked. Author tour.
VIKING
Lighting Their Fires: Raising Extraordinary Children in a Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World (Sept., $24.95) by Rafe Esquith explains how parents and teachers can instill lifelong values in children. 10-city author tour.
WELCOME BOOKS
(dist. by Random House)
The Big Book for Toddlers (Sept., $24.95), edited by Alice Wong and Lena Tabori, offers a treasury of activities, fairy tales, nursery rhymes, games and more; includes vintage illustrations.
