Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs
10 best books like Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs (Ellen Galinsky): NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children, The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family Thrive, Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five, How Children Learn, How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting, No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind, Rivet Your Readers with Deep Point of View, Teach Your Children Well: Why Values and Coping Skills Matter More Than Grades, Trophies, or "Fat Envelopes", Einstein Never Used Flashcards: How Our Children Really Learn--and Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less
NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children
| Author | Po Bronson |
| ISBN | 0446504122 |
In a world of modern, involved, caring parents, why are so many kids aggressive and cruel? Where is intelligence hidden in the brain, and why does that matter? Why do cross-racial friendships decrease in schools that are more integrated? If 98% of kids think lying is morally wrong, then why do...
The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family Thrive
| Author | Daniel J. Siegel |
| ISBN | 0553807919 |
Your toddler throws a tantrum in the middle of a store. Your preschooler refuses to get dressed. Your fifth-grader sulks on the bench instead of playing on the field. Do children conspire to make their parents’ lives endlessly challenging? No—it’s just their developing brain calling the shots!
In...
Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five
| Author | John Medina |
| ISBN | 0979777763 |
What’s the single most important thing you can do during pregnancy? What does watching TV do to a child’s brain? What’s the best way to handle temper tantrums? Scientists know.
In his New York Times bestseller Brain Rules, Dr. John Medina showed us how our brains really work—and why...
| Author | John Holt |
| ISBN | 0201484048 |
This enduring classic of educational thought offers teachers and parents deep, original insight into the nature of early learning. John Holt was the first to make clear that, for small children, “learning is as natural as breathing.” In this delightful yet profound book, he looks at how we learn...
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
| Author | Adele Faber |
| ISBN | 0380811960 |
Here is the bestselling book that will give you the know-how you need to be effective with your children. Enthusiastically praised by parents and professionals around the world, the down--to--earth, respectful approach of Faber and Mazlish makes relationships with children of all ages less stressful...
Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting
| Author | Laura Markham |
| ISBN | 0399160280 |
A groundbreaking guide to raising responsible, capable, happy kids
Based on the latest research on brain development and extensive clinical experience with parents, Dr. Laura Markham’s approach is as simple as it is effective. Her message: Fostering emotional connection with your...
No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The pioneering experts behind The Whole-Brain Child and The Yes Brain tackle the ultimate parenting challenge: discipline.
Highlighting the fascinating link between a child's neurological development and the way a parent reacts to misbehavior, No-Drama Discipline...
| Author | Jill Elizabeth Nelson |
Dear Novelist: Would you like your readers to live your stories, not merely read them? Deep Point of View anchors your readers inside the point of view character(s) of your novel. This handbook shows you how to perform the transformation from ordinary narrative to deep narrative in clear, easy-to-master...
| Author | Madeline Levine |
| ISBN | 0062196685 |
Psychologist Madeline Levine, author of the New York Times bestseller The Price of Privilege, brings together cutting-edge research and thirty years of clinical experience to explode once and for all the myth that good grades, high test scores, and college acceptances should define the parenting...
| Author | Kathy Hirsh-Pasek |
| ISBN | 1594860688 |
Now Available in Paperback!
In Einstein Never Used Flashcards highly credentialed child psychologists, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Ph.D., and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Ph.D., with Diane Eyer, Ph.D., offer a compelling indictment of the growing trend toward accelerated learning. It's a message...
Conflict pulls readers into a story and suspense carries them along until its conclusion. Expert author of over 15 thrillers, James Scott Bell offers proven techniques that help writers craft fiction that their readers won?t be able to put down. Learn how to believably weave conflict and suspense...
| Author | Ethan Long |
| ISBN | 0399256113 |
Three side-splitting stories in one great picture book!
In three laugh-out-loud situations, an irresistible cast of colorful birds illustrate the concepts of "up," "tall" and "high." First, a short peacock proves that he may not be tall, but he definitely isn't small. Then, a resourceful...
Brick: Who Found Herself in Architecture
| Author | Joshua David Stein |
| ISBN | 0714876313 |
A young brick goes on a journey to find her place in the world by visiting ten celebrated brick structures around the globe
When Brick was just a baby, tall buildings amazed her. Her mother said, "Great things begin with small bricks. Look around and you'll see."
Brick's observations...
The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression
The bestselling Emotion Thesaurus, often hailed as “the gold standard for writers” and credited with transforming how writers craft emotion, has now been expanded to include 55 new entries!One of the biggest struggles for writers is how to convey emotion to readers in a unique and compelling...
Child Psychology: A Very Short Introduction
| Author | Usha Goswami |
| ISBN | 0199646597 |
This Very Short Introduction provides an up-to-date, authoritative, and accessible guide to modern child psychology, from birth to early adolescence. Beginning with infancy, Usha Goswami considers the process of attachment and bonding, showing how secure attachments enable the development...
| Author | Francesco Tonucci |
| ISBN | 9500383764 |
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Writing Picture Books: A Hands-On Guide from Story Creation to Publication
| Author | Ann Whitford Paul |
| ISBN | 1440353751 |
Master the Art of Writing Enthralling Tales for the Youngest pre-and emerging readers!
Fully updated and thoroughly revised, Writing Picture Books Revised and Expanded Edition is the go-to resource for writers crafting stories for children ages two to eight. You'll learn the unique set...
Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too
| Author | Adele Faber |
| ISBN | 0393342212 |
Already best-selling authors with How to Talk So Kids Will Listen Listen So Kids Will Talk, Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish turned their minds to the battle of the siblings. Parents themselves, they were determined to figure out how to help their children get along. The result was Siblings Without Rivalry....
Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids
| Author | Kim John Payne |
| ISBN | 0345507975 |
Today’s busier, faster, supersized society is waging an undeclared war . . . on childhood. As the pace of life accelerates to hyperspeed–with too much stuff, too many choices, and too little time–children feel the pressure. They can become anxious, have trouble with friends and school, or even...
| Author | Alexandra Penfold |
| ISBN | 0399554297 |
A hilarious story about what happens to the littlest and loudest Viking when an even littler and louder Viking arrives, perfect for fans of The Princess and the Pony and I Don't Want to Be a Frog.
Sven might be the littlest Viking, but he has no trouble making himself known. He has the loudest warrior...
Literature & Composition: Reading - Writing - Thinking
| Author | Carol Jago |
| ISBN | 0312388063 |
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Cómo Empezar a Escribir Historias
El Programa Nacional de Salas de Lectura es uno de los escasos proyectos culturales de largo alcance en México: tiene casi dos décadas ofreciendo a ciudadanos de todas partes del país (y no necesariamente especializados en literatura) la posibilidad de crear bibliotecas y círculos de lectura...
| Author | Francesco Tonucci |
| ISBN | 9682957788 |
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| Author | Nathan W. Pyle |
| ISBN | 0062970690 |
I feel more attractive.
Honestly, you are.
It’s the star damage.
I CRAVE STAR DAMAGE.
Straight from the mind of New York Times bestselling author Nathan W. Pyle comes an adorable and profound universe in pink, blue, green, and purple. Based on the phenomenally popular Instagram...
| Author | Jennifer Sattler |
| ISBN | 1534126384 |
Bully the bullfrog lives in a pond full of lilies. The flowers are beautiful, fragrant, and enjoyed by the many other creatures that also inhabit the pond. The pond is a very pleasant place to live. Or it should be. Instead, Bully decides that only he should be able to enjoy the beautiful lilies. He demands...
| Author | Jannie Ho |
| ISBN | 0762462663 |
Humor, a surprise ending, and an unlikely friendship make Bear and Chicken fall into the ranks with Mo Willems and Dev Petty, and the soup recipe at the end will inspire young chefs to get into the kitchen and cook!
When Bear finds a chicken frozen in the winter snow, he brings it home to try to defrost...
| Author | Benjamin Strouse |
| ISBN | 1457533421 |
A boy finds a dog and takes him home. The two of them love playing together, but then the boy gets hurt. The dog is taken to an animal shelter and someone else adopts him. The boy is told that he simply isn’t old enough yet to care for a dog. Happily, the boy still gets to visit the dog and tries to grow up fast...
| Author | Rob Biddulph |
| ISBN | 0007594151 |
It’s a dog’s life in the big city… Come join one busy dog on her journey to find her place in the world, in this third sublimely illustrated book from the bestselling, award-winning Rob Biddulph.
For busy dogs
A busy day
Of busy work
And busy play
But one dog doesn’t quite...
| Author | Salina Yoon |
| ISBN | 1619639513 |
Dennis is an ordinary boy who expresses himself in extraordinary ways. Some children do show-and-tell. Dennis mimes his. Some children climb trees. Dennis is happy to BE a tree . . . But being a mime can be lonely. It isn't until Dennis meets a girl named Joy that he discovers the power of friendship--and...
The Grizzly Bear Who Lost His GRRRRR!
| Author | Rob Biddulph |
| ISBN | 0062367250 |
From the award-winning author and illustrator of Blown Away, Rob Biddulph, comes a delightfully hilarious story about a grizzly bear named Fred who loses his GRRRRR.
Each year, for as long as the forest has stood, a contest is held for the bears of the wood… Fred is the champion. He’s the...
