Your Child's Growing Mind: A Guide to Learning and Brain Development from Birth to Adolescence
10 best books like Your Child's Growing Mind: A Guide to Learning and Brain Development from Birth to Adolescence (Jane M. Healy): Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?, Time for Bed, Moo!, Between You and Me, Strong Mothers, Strong Sons: Lessons Mothers Need to Raise Extraordinary Men, A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty, The Perfect House, The Perfect Block, Chasing Slow: Courage to Journey Off the Beaten Path, Living Restfully: A Skeptic's Guide to Raising Children Screen-Free
Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?
Author | Bill Martin Jr. |
ISBN | 0805053883 |
What will you hear when you read this book to a preschool child?
Lots of noise!
Children will chant the rhythmic words. They'll make the sounds the animals make. And they'll pretend to be the zoo animals featured in the book-- look at the last page!
Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle...
Author | Mem Fox |
ISBN | 0152010661 |
A good bed time story for kids—but mostly because it's about going to bed.
It's full of the following misinformation:
• The "whole wide world" is actually NOT going to sleep. Only your half of the world is going to sleep. Or perhaps more accurately, "only approximately 1/24th of the...
Author | David LaRochelle |
ISBN | 0802734103 |
When Cow gets her hooves on the farmer's car, she takes it for a wild ride through the country. Moooo! But a bump in the road brings this joy ride to a troublesome end. Moo-moo. . . Has Cow learned her lesson about living life in the fast lane? Moo?
Pairing two talented creators who managed to tell...
This is a fantastic debut novel. Congratulations Lisa Hall!!
WOW!!
It was suggested that I go into reading this book blind. I didn't go in completely blind but I didn't read as many reviews as I normally would. Actually the description itself is fairly short. Perfect description for...
Strong Mothers, Strong Sons: Lessons Mothers Need to Raise Extraordinary Men
Author | Meg Meeker |
ISBN | 0345518098 |
Meg Meeker, M.D., acclaimed author of Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters, now turns to an equally powerful relationship in the family: the one between mother and son.
From the moment a mother holds her newborn son, his eyes tell her that she is his world. But often, as he grows up, the boy who...
Author | Joshilyn Jackson |
ISBN | 0446582352 |
A Grown-Up Kind Of Pretty is a powerful saga of three generations of women, plagued by hardships and torn by a devastating secret, yet inextricably joined by the bonds of family.
Fifteen-year-old Mosey Slocumb-spirited, sassy, and on the cusp of womanhood-is shaken when a small grave is unearthed...
In THE PERFECT HOUSE (Book #3), criminal profiler Jessie Hunt, 29, fresh from the FBI Academy, returns to find herself hunted by her murderous father, locked in a dangerous game of cat and mouse. Meanwhile, she must race to stop a killer in a new case that leads her deep into suburbia—and to the brink...
In THE PERFECT BLOCK (Book #2), rookie criminal profiler Jessie Hunt, 29, picks up the pieces of her broken life and leaves suburbia to start a new life in downtown Los Angeles. But when a wealthy socialite is murdered, Jessie, assigned the case, finds herself back in the world of picture-perfect suburbia,...
Chasing Slow: Courage to Journey Off the Beaten Path
Author | Erin Loechner |
ISBN | 0310345677 |
You’re here, but you want to be there.
So you spend your life narrowing this divide, and you call this your race, your journey, your path. You live your days tightening your boot straps, wiping the sweat from your brow, chasing undiscovered happiness just around the bend. Higher! Faster!...
Living Restfully: A Skeptic's Guide to Raising Children Screen-Free
If your children are often restless, if you're exhausted at the end of every day, and if you're unsure of how to address the kids' daily screen-time allowances, then this is the book for you. Living Restfully discusses the scientific and spiritual implications of screens in our children's lives. A book...
The Crayons' Book of Numbers
Author | Drew Daywalt |
ISBN | 0451534050 |
Counting is as easy as 1... 2... purple?... in this charming book of numbers from the creators of the #1 New York Times Best Sellers, The Day the Crayons Quit and The Day the Crayons Came Home.
Poor Duncan can't catch a break! First, his crayons go on strike. Then, they come back home. Now his favorite...
Author | DK Publishing |
ISBN | 0756692881 |
Touch the bumpy scales, smooth horns, and sticky tongues of dinosaurs in this classic DK board book filled with clear photography, simple text, and fun textures for young readers to explore.
Touch and Feel: Dinosaur is a beloved family favorite that keeps young readers engaged with pages...
Author | Laura Baker |
ISBN | 1419733540 |
Hopping and stopping, Squirrel sees deer!
But not her mama. She isn’t here.
Through a simple narrative about a squirrel looking for her family, Into the Forest introduces different animal families as they go about their daily lives. With a gentle rhyming text and beautiful illustrations,...
Author | Yoshiki Nakamura |
ISBN | 1421539993 |
Show biz is sweet, but revenge is sweeter!
Reads R to L (Japanese Style).
Kyoko thinks she's survived Valentine's Day, but that's just the kind of attitude that gets her in trouble with the president of LME. Lory is very disappointed in the girls of the Love Me Section and sets up special...
The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World
Author | Sarah Weinman |
ISBN | 0062661957 |
7 Hours and 26 Minutes
Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita is one of the most beloved and notorious novels of all time. And yet, very few of its readers know that the subject of the novel was inspired by a real-life case: the 1948 abduction of eleven-year-old Sally Horner.
Weaving together...
Author | Yoshiki Nakamura |
ISBN | 1421538334 |
Show biz is sweet, but revenge is sweeter!
Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences T
Valentine’s Day is on its way, but Kyoko won’t be able to celebrate love and friendship the normal way. She’s getting blackmailed into giving chocolate to guys she hates, she has her ongoing revenge...
Author | Yoshiki Nakamura |
ISBN | 1421539233 |
Show biz is sweet, but revenge is sweeter!
Reads R to L (Japanese Style).
Kyoko's Valentine's battle with Reino has finally gained her Sho's attention—but now it's the last thing she wants! Sho is determined to make her obsessed with him, and shows up on set with an over-the-top gift...
Author | Yoshiki Nakamura |
ISBN | 1421536927 |
Show biz is sweet, but revenge is sweeter!
Reads R to L (Japanese Style) T audience.
Kyoko Mogami followed her true love Sho to Tokyo to support him while he made it big as an idol. But he's casting her out now that he's famous! Kyoko won't suffer in silence--she's going to get her sweet...