Get Ready! Series by Stacey Kannenburg

Let’s Get Ready For Kindergarten! and Let’s Get Ready For First Grade! are winners of the Adding Wisdom Award and are taking the nation by storm, helping parents and kids prepare for Kindergarten and First Grade! Teachers at home and school love it!   It’s not a storybook or a workbook; it’s a book that covers the curriculum that children learn by reading. These books are a great resource for any parent whose child is entering school. The activities are both fun and easy so kids won't feel like they are doing homework. In the back there are also helpful parenting and caregiver tips such as, always have paper, pencils, crayons, glue and scissors readily available. Other features include a doodling page and questions for parents to ask their children while reading. All-in-all this is a great resource for both parents and children to learn together!  

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Let's Get Ready for First Grade! (Let's Get Ready Series) (Let's Get Ready Series)

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Your Child’s Health & Wellness Record

Your Child’s Health & Wellness Record

Karen Melnick’s book is a great way to keep track of important medical information you always think you’re going to remember but never do. The book allows mothers to track the health of their children from childbirth, starting with information about their own prenatal health and delivery. The comprehensive guide includes developmental checklists from 3 months to 9 years, has places to record information about children’s routine doctor’s appointments, and includes charts to keep track of the medication a child has taken.

Why Didn’t Anyone Tell Me?

Why Didn’t Anyone Tell Me?

True Stories of New Motherhood

This book by Melanie Bowden is somewhat of a realistic guidebook for the new mother. “I’ve found that being candid about the ups and downs of parenting leads mothers to sigh with relief and say,

Together: Creating Family Traditions

Together: Creating Family Traditions

The beliefs that Rondi Hillstrom Davis and Janell Sewall Oakes share about family and the importance of quality time has manifested itself in the book Together: Creating Family Traditions. The book accomplishes something that we all seem to wish for and yet never seem able to do – transform holidays so that they are once again more about tradition and family than commercialism and material goods. The authors manage to inspire with traditions both familiar (coloring Easter eggs) and new (a New Year’s wishing tree), and carry with them memories of simple pleasures like sailboats made of bark and pie eating contests. The book contains personal stories, crafts, recipes, and ideas on which to reflect, all combined with beautiful photographs that illustrate what is really important in life – the dual simplicity and profundity of togetherness. Together: Creating Family Traditions serves as both a reminder of this ideal as well as the means with which to make it a reality in one’s own family.

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The Wonder Years

The Wonder Years

The Wonder Years is the new book from the American Academy of Pediatrics, which focuses on developmental stages and milestones in the first few years of a child’s life. The book outlines the developments a baby will achieve in movement, motor skills, sensory perceptions, mental stages, social and emotional states, and bladder control. With the insight of a pediatrician, the guide provides information about each of these stages, helpful tips related to each milestone, and activities for parents to help encourage that particular development.

The Shopping Bags

The Shopping Bags

Anna Wallner and Kristina Matisic are two girls from Vancouver who I met on the Rachael Ray Show. Their book, The Shopping Bags offers insightful and, often, unknown tips about being a smart consumer when picking out everything from diapers to appliances to mascara. When they spoke, I listened, and some of their advice made me want to run home and check my own products! Theirs’ is a must-have guide before going out to do any kind of shopping.

Oh, Baby!

Oh, Baby!

7 Ways a Baby Will Change Your Life the First Year

Oh, Baby! was written by three women from different backgrounds who all know what they’re talking about. Their book attempts to give parents realistic expectations of how their lives will change when they introduce a new baby into the family, whether its their first or fourth.

Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees by Neale S. Godfrey

Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees by Neale S. Godfrey

Once a banker, Neale S. Godfrey, started the Children’s Financial Network, Inc. after realizing there was too little information available to parents about children and finances. This book is part of her solution to that problem. While finance can be a difficult subject, Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees breaks everything down into manageable pieces that will help parents teach their children valuable lessons about money.

Mom’s House, Dad’s House for Kids by Isolina Ricci

Mom’s House, Dad’s House for Kids by Isolina Ricci

Family therapist and expert Dr. Isolina Ricci has written a new book based on her first, Mom’s House, Dad’s House. This new take on the subject of divorce and stepfamilies is aimed at children over the age of 10. Mom’s House, Dad’s House for Kids contains stories and Q&A sections to help children understand their own situation as well as tips and questions to get children reflecting on their experiences and moving ahead.

Alpha Girls by Dan Kindlon

Alpha Girls By Dan Kindlon

In the new book Alpha Girls, Dan Kindlon takes a look at what he considers to be a new generational trend – high-achieving adolescent girls with positive self-images and dreams of success. Clearly, Kindlon has identified an important segment in the population of today’s girls and offers several insights regarding their thought processes, interests, and goals. He even goes so far as to point to reasons why these girls are so driven and confident, a lot of which, he says, has to do with the strong influence of fathers.