Infants Books

All I can say is that this book is exellent. I have been looking and looking for a book that not only tells you how to read to your children but gives you suggestions of good books to read to them. This is that book!!! I got it from my local library but love it so much I am now going to buy it. It is a must read for any mother or new daycare teacher who, like me, had no clue about how to select a good book.

Let's face it: There are many books for babies and children out there. How do I choose the perfect book for my baby? What's the baby going to understand from it? How will the baby react? How can I introduce the book to the baby? I had a lot of questions like these before buying this book and they were all answered. Reading with babies, toddlers, and Twos is a great tool book that reads well, with charts about baby development vs. book choice, many book suggestions categorized and many references as well if you wish to know more. The authors are credible and thanks to them, I do not feel as lost in baby book world. If you want what's best for your child...here's a good start.

From beginning to end, this book is chock full of invaluable information about the why's, what's, when's and how's of reading to our children. I honestly can't think of a more important parenting book out there. It just makes so much sense. And although I already do it, it got me excited about reading to my kids again and reminded me why I read to all of my babies in utero. (For fun! Who knew it was so beneficial?) There's just no better way to connect, bond and engage with children. I grew up with this philosophy that books are our friends (my Mother really did tell us that) and it's a joy to learn exactly why reading with our children is so important. I already love giving books as gifts and you can be assured, this book will be hastily added to my baby shower/new baby/1st and 2nd birthday gift list. I can think of no better gift for a parent than the gift of true quality time with their kids. A time to discover, laugh, tickle and snuggle. A time to sing, rhyme, interact and learn. Together. What can be better than that?

As a reading specialist, I am always looking for books to recommend to new mothers. This is a book with a wealth of information for anyone interested in what book should I get for my child, grandchildren, new mother, fathers, etc. Each chapter is well written with good information. At the end of most chapters is a chart containing information about various stages children go through and what parents can expect their child to be doing in response to the title of the chapter. Much research has been done to put this all together. A must for new parents of young children.

Like Mem Fox's Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever, Reading with Babies, Toddlers, and Two's lacks the data and references of Jim Trelease's The Read-Aloud Handbook: Sixth Edition (Read-Aloud Handbook) BUT is a great, friendly introduction to how and why to read aloud to your child and why you should start as young as possible. More importantly, it includes many thematic lists of books for children in the 0 to 3 age range. The lists are what make this book so useful as most booklist books are most solid in the elementary school range, with some (too few) selections for kindergardeners and preschoolers. (The exception to that is Kathleen Odean's Great Books for Babies and Toddlers: More Than 500 Recommended Books for Your Child's First Three Years.) For busy, tired parents, a faster, lighter read than Trelease is welcome though I'd recommend reading Trelease later for more details and data and for his Treasury of read alouds.

The illustrations and story are inspiring for every girl--those who are brand new and well-traveled alike. In many languages, girls are offered encouragement for living life. I always give this book to newborn girls and have one of my own.

The text and illustrations of this book are both wonderful. This is the perfect gift for a baby girl.

This book is now my standard gift to new moms of daughters. The illustrations and text are so gorgeous! I still cannot read it aloud to my daughter without tearing up.

She Is Born is hard to classify: nonfiction which reads like fiction. She Is Born discusses how cultures around the world celebrate the birth of a daughter, with vivid paintings by John Rowe capturing the multicultural explorations of a daughter's birth. A beautiful presentation, outstanding in its contrasts.

I just had a daughter last month and my best friend gave me this book. I was really touched - the words are profound. The illustrations are beautiful. I am now giving it to another friend who just had a daughter. I highly recommend it.

This illuminating book is full of wise and valuable advice that are derived from Professor William Maxwell's and his wife Mary Maxwell's life-long research into child rearing, multiple intelligence development and education. It also illuminates the collective wisdom of the world's most successful cultures and modern child-development research studies. This book introduces the unique characteristics of families that produce the world's most successful men and women. Most instructive and interesting to me is the Chapter:PARENTS TO AVOID BEHAVIOUR THAT PRODUCES THE AUTOCRATIC PERSONALITY. Erikson found that Adolph Hitler and Mahatma Gadhi were almost mirror images of each other in a scientific sense. To avoid producing a child like Hitler, and to raise a child like Gandhi, Prof. Maxwell proposes a four-step Interpersonal Skills Training Strategy as the chid grows from 0 to 11-year old.

"When "Law and order" are enthroned in the child's mind, that mind will have stability. When love is enthroned in the child's heart, there will be strength. Great souls have both." -- Professor William Maxwell

Mary E Maxwell, William Maxwell, Jim Pearce, Ruth Leilani Smith. "SuperParenting: Child Rearing for the New Millennium"
The problem presented in the book "SuperParenting" is that today's society is not fully educated on the proper way to raise a child. The Authors speak that not everyone is educated on how to properly take care of a child and because of that it causes are children to be less intelligent and not allowing them to fully contribute to the betterment of society and its entire people. The Authors address how even the children being born in regions without the vast metropolis, such as in the Ibo tribe of southeastern Nigeria, can be more intelligent, physically and spiritually healthier then other children born in the states because the tribe know how to take care of the children versus the states and how most parents are uneducated on child rearing because of multiple different reasons mainly because their parents didn't teach them right and it becomes a endless cycle. The book strives to brake the habits and myths of taking care of a child and instill the correct way to rear a child to further benefit not only the children of the future but the future itself by helping create a better child.
Professor William Maxwell, Ed.D., has many qualifying attributes to writing about the worlds techniques of child rearing and how affective they are. William Maxwell has traveled the world with his wife for many years living, experiencing, and studying multiple different cultures and how they partake in their everyday life and how they go about educating their young. Professor William Maxwell has significant achievements in his life one being he is the founder of the International Conference on Thinking, while at the University of the South Pacific, which was the world's first academic conference focused on teaching the thinking process (Maxwell p.170).
Mary Elizabeth Maxwell, the late wife of Professor William Maxwell was trained by multiple different Universities as well as experiencing and helping multiple different cultures as she accompanied Professor William Maxwell on his journey through life. She studied public health nursing which allowed her to analyze the different cultures that she experienced along with her husband. She worked in America on helping the immigrants of different locations, with their health care problems, quarantines, and newborns. Her assortment of knowledge of health care and child rearing makes her more then qualified to write about how to further better your child by taking certain steps and precautions to making them a healthier and more competent child (Maxwell p.170).
Ruth Leilani Smith earned her Bachelor of Arts in English Literature at Illinois Wesleyan University, and a Master of Arts in Tourism and Special Event Management from Canterbury University, United Kingdom. Ruth is a Teacher of adults with disabilities makes her a qualified individual to report on child rearing because she studies the psychological problems that are present in early child hood that leads to further disabilities later in life (Maxwell p.171).
Jim Pearce, born in the Republic of South Africa moved to the United States in 1984. He received a Master's Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy in 1991 from Abilene Christian University. Having the educational background to provide facts, data, and theories about the family and how certain situation can help and hurt the family member provides a lot to this book and further proves that this book is a viable tool for any parent (Maxwell p.171).
The book is about how to properly take care and nurture a child to make them the best they can be. The book provides education to the reader on the does and don'ts of child rearing. "SuperParenting" provides the reader with not just a guide to how parents should raise their children but to help they understand the reasons for it and also letting they know that without helping and making their child the best they can be society can't evolve and will only hurt from children that are poorly raised. The Authors do a wonderful job at showing how other cultures use different methods to help their children and how they work and why parents all across the world should use the methods they use. The book is not afraid to take on controversial topics such as chastity before marriage, a exert from the book provides how important sex is but with today's society and media sex is wrongly portrayed to teenagers and thus the teens have the wrong idea of sex, "Sex is like electricity. Uninsulated, it wreaks havoc. Insulated and switched on at the right time, sex can "light up" every cell of the body, including the creative cells of the brain" (Maxwell p.47). Another controversial topic that the book talks about is the Importance of praying for the embryo. Telling parents to pray for their children seems like it would be a taboo since not all people pray and may find it offensive but the thing "SuperParenting" does best is give vivid detail for everything they present to the reader by giving them facts and good reason for their ways. "But the greatest evidence for the power of prayer lies in macro history: no society has achieved long-term stability and a high level of culture without a powerful and nearly universal habit of regular prayer" (Maxwell p.72).
The book is intended for all parents and future parents. The book educates the parents on how to make sure they help their children to be the best they can be and how to assure that. The book and its authors truly want to better the world by bettering the one true thing that will help the world and that is its children. The book stacks up to other child rearing books by being one of the most insightful and while constructed books made by people that truly know what they are talking about from there many years of experience and education. The book having a foreword by one of the greatest thinkers of our time Edward De Bono is truly something to look to, not to mention that the book is on Harvard's must read.
I truly enjoyed reading this novel because of the fact that the authors truly want to help better the world and also better the children of the world. I love reading something that tells me about all different cultures and how they use different techniques to properly take care of their children and the world. The book was a wonderful read and lucky for me I have the opportunity to meet and have a class by one of the authors Professor William Maxwell, whom is a wonderful and knowledgeable man who truly wants the world to be a better place for all mankind; a value I share. Reading the book was a really positive experience that I suggest that all teenagers read because it will, or at least should, give them a better outlook on life and show them how what we do during every step of our life will affect are children from the minute they are conceived until they die. The author was able to hold my attention the whole time by presenting factual and well educational information to me in a manner that felt personal enough to make me truly care. I learned a great deal from reading this book it even educated me on things I thought differently about such as breast feeding, most of that was me being naive and not educated on the subject, but now thanks to this great piece of work I am now more educated. I highly recommend this book to everyone even if they don't want kids because they will want to help others when they read the things in this book. I highly suggest continuing making your student Professor Maxwell read this as their first book because it truly sheds a new light on things from a lot of different angles, I would even suggest that high school freshmen read this book for freshmen summer reading. My personal favorite line from this book is a quote that I feel hold true to every standard of living "When "Law and order" are enthroned in the child's mind, that mind will have stability. When love is enthroned in the child's heart, there will be strength. Great souls have both."(Maxwell p.29)




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I just had the pleasure of reading SuperParenting, and I don't think I can adequately describe how much I enjoyed this remarkable book. The authors utilize a very effective technique of presenting many many short chapters, which makes it easy to read and follow. Each chapter is full of useful information but none is so long as to overwhelm you as a reader. I also loved the way Dr. Maxwell and the other authors used examples from other cultures to explain and support their ideas--I fully believe that we have a lot to learn from other people throughout the world on parenting as well as other topics. I found the information in the book to be very thought-provoking as well as filled with a great deal of common sense. As an example, the suggestion that babies be born in rooms with dim light is a very good one, and the explanation makes complete sense. This is a great book for people who would like to become parents, expectant parents, and parents of all ages. I think it would also be very useful for grandparents as well. I look forward to the next book by this team of authors.

This book is very enjoyable and provides a great deal of useful information. A must read for all parents!

This is a book worthy of your time if you are a parent, grandparent, future parent or as a gift to someone who will become a parent. His long and sensitive experience as an educator and psychologist come out on every page.

It makes interesting and thought provoking reading for almost everyone.

Personally, I strongly recommend this book not only for your own library but as a gift to your friends.

I AM NOT THE KIND OF PERSON WHO READS BOOKS VERY OFTEN BUT THIS ONE WAS GREAT. I COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN ONCE I STARTED.I STRONGLY ADVISE.

I discoverd the book, Then An Angel Came, by accident. I had been ill for three years with a debilitating illness called Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome. At one point, I thought it wasn't worth living. I decided to try to find some answers, first. So, I went to a bookstore, and stopped in front of an isle. I didn't know why I was here, but my eyes were led to a book titled, Then An Angel Came. I didn't know if I had enough money for it, and was prepared to use my credit card, but when I got to the counter, it was half price. I don't know why I was led to such a book, but maybe an angel helped me out . . .

I had been reading up on angels, and the title interested me. Then An Angel Came is a true story about a family. It is about a family who tries to keep itself together when a death in the family strikes. Teri, Carol's (the arthor's) daughter, loses her infant son, Gregory, to SIDS -- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Each family member: Teri, her husband, Gordon, and their daughter, Jessie -- all deal with the grief in his/her own way. This doesn't only deal with the main family, but the extended family of grandparents (Carol being the grandmother of this child), and Carol's father . . . each memeber coming to grips with life and death on his or her own.

Carol then introduces her daughter, Teri, who is a skeptic, to the spiritual side of things and meditates with her. Through these meditation sessions, Janith, a guardian angel or spiritual guide, shows, and makes herself known through Teri. In a meditative state, Teri would write pages of journals with Janith's words and messages on them. Those messages are what pull a grieving family back on their feet.

Those messages, and this wonderful family, are what makes this book a true deep spiritual experience to read.

Like Carol Gino, I am the grandmother of a baby boy who died from SIDS. She not only captures every detail of the pain suffered by various members of a family that goes through such an experience, but, better yet, shows how even this most tragic of events can have some positive outcomes in the lives of the survivors.
Given the fact that Ms. Gino is a bestselling author, it is no surprise that the book reads like a novel. It will grab and hold your interest even if you have not lived through a tragedy of the magnitude of her family.
There's no need to buy into all the concepts she introduces to learn and benefit from the wisdom that this book contains. Just be open to parts that speak to you and your world view, and you won't be sorry. And, yes, be sure to have some Kleenex at hand - just remember that if you stay with the book until the end, your tears will be rewarded.

... well written and very interesting...We are placing "Then An Angel Came" in our lending library for the grieving community to whom we provide free services.

Faith is something most people want but few of us want tested. In this moving story of personal loss, renewal, and faith, we see how one woman and her family find a very personal faith, yet one that can bring hope to others. This is the story of a child's death but it is also the story of life, of grief and of moving beyond grief. Carol Gino has an unconventional gift for faith and she shares it generously.

We got one of these books for my daughter when she was born, she is now 5. She loves to 'read the book about me'. So, when our son came along we had to buy one for him as well.

I ordered this for my new grandbaby and we were so pleased we ordered more. Five of my daughter's friends are pregnant so we ordered copies for all!

I have purchased this book for each of my three grandchildren. They enjoy hearing the story of when they were a baby with their picture on each page. I think it's a great keepsake.

My mom gave us two copies of this book when my second son was born -- I filled out one for each of my sons, and they both love to read about themselves and each other as babies. I'm going to buy another one for our new baby girl!

I absolutely love this book! It is such a great idea to have a baby book that your baby can actually look at and enjoy! My son loves to look at his face in all of the drawings and I like that it is fun and easy to fill in. I like this book so much I am purchasing "When You Were One" by the same author.

This is a great product to use as a baby shower gift or celebration of a birth gift. You can put the new baby's picture on the inside of the back cover. My 6 month old niece loves her book.

Having both professional and personal experience with adoption of children with attachment injuries, this book touches my heart. Prevention is worth a zillion hours of therapy later. The book does not address it directly, but another underlying message is that this sort of intentional parenting, with acknowledgement of the parent's importance, produces extraordinary results in not only the developing mind, but also in the developing parent.

The book in great words expresses what a parent is in the eye of a child, how the child is able to grow always knowing that their parent is there to protect and love the child.

Amy Hatkoff has done a great job of integrating a scrapbook of pictorial cuties with psychological milestones. The visceral response is one of "Ohhhh..." A little gem of a book and a very suitable stocking gift for anyone expecting a larger bundle of joy. I'm also appreciative of the fact that she has both sexes nurturing infants.

This book is soo... good I am amazed it isn't a best seller or winning every award in baby books!. I just had a baby and this book made me cry..it evokes the feeling I have for my baby/now toddler that I could never express, but felt it so strongly!!. I feel I am quite artistic as I am a writer of pop songsBlue Guitar...but this book touches your heart in some precious way I could never imagine. I love this book and send it to all my friends having babies! Amy.. thank you WOW!

I was looking for a book on bioethics as I was writing an assingment for graduate school. I thought that this book would be anti-NICU but it really wasn't. I take issue with one review that gathers ALL NICU personel into one lump in taking care of these tiniest of tinies. I agree though, that just because we can, doesn't mean we should..HOWEVER, that being said, I am a NICU nurse not because I want to heroically save every tiny person that is born into this world, but to help these little ones in their greatest time of need. Don't fool yourselves into thinking that doctors and nurses make all the decisions for these preemies. Parents who refuse to let go do exist! Parents who have struggled to get pregnant and then want everything done...do exist. Parents who believe that because they are in the UNITED STATEs we can cure anything do exist. So while, we do go to extremes at times...it is never without thought, deliberation and might I add prayer. No one wants a baby to suffer..no one wants a parent or sibling to suffer ..that is never the intent of NICU care... say what you want...we do good things...and faced with the dilemma of NICU care or not..when it is an emergency..there is not a parent in the world who would not say "do something." This is quite different from those who know ahead of time that the infant will not make it...has a major lethal defect or is too little to live well...then I believe that perinatal hospice is the way to go...In the short 10 years or so since some of these children were born..there is no longer the secrecy of treatment..parents are well aware of each step along the way...given a chance for informed consent..and can and DO make decision in their childrens care....that being said..I thought the book was good, objective for its time, and through..and I WOULD and have recommended it for read in my own NICU.

This book was in the new book section of our local library. While my 3 year old was feeding books, one at a time, into the book return, my 1 year old pulled it off the shelf. I picked it up and while the boys were enjoying the library collection of books and puzzles I started reading a passage here and a passage there. Within 24 hours I had read the entire thing (including the acknowledgements). That is how compelling this book is. The writing is so sensitive and brilliant and the subject matter is so eye-opening. I am going to buy a copy for my doctor, my midwife, and everyone I know who works in the health field. Can I buy this book by the case?

I think this book is right on and makes everyone think. Families should have the final say in medical care for anyone in their family when they are unable to. For some people out here medicine has gone to far. Doctors should not have the ability to force medical care and sometimes expermential treatment on anyone.

Sometime life is about quality not quanity.

I was a premature baby myself. I was born in the early 1960s, when NICUs were just getting started. I was six weeks premature and weighed five pounds. That's about four times more than many of the babies profiled in the book. Today, of course, a 32-week preemie like myself is hardly worth mentioning. I have no after-effects except possibly my tendency to lung infections.

This book profiles a number of "miracle babies" who were saved after being born very prematurely (at 22-26 weeks gestation) or who were very sick at birth and saved by dramatic surgical intervention and high-tech care. The point made is that for many of these babies, "success" as measured by the NICU staff, usually defined as a living baby who goes home, is quite different from what the babies' parents experience. The doctors and nurses don't have to deal with life-long care for children who are blind, deaf, retarded, autistic, or have cerebral palsy. The NICU staff also don't have to deal with family strain, resentful siblings, bankruptcy, and divorce resulting from the constant pressure of dealing with a severely handicapped child. The parents do. Yes, there are some babies who grow up to be happy and normal. But the percentage of lucky babies is smaller than most people imagine.

Today the treatment of ever-teenier preemies has become an industry in itself. The price to society has mounted steadily. Yes, it's only money. But when a million dollars is spent keeping a single preemie alive, that million dollars has to come from somewhere. If you cut doctor visits from 20 minutes to 15 minutes or reduce the number of nurses on a hospital floor, which are some of the standard cost-cutting measures, it takes a very, very long time to reach a million dollars. The cost of neonatal intensive care is one of the major reasons why health care is so expensive in developed countries, and particularly in the U.S. Health care in the U.S. is trapped in a spiral of diminishing returns as costs climb ever higher. My husband and I spend a very substantial chunk of our incomes on health insurance for us and our son. Are we getting our money's worth? I don't think so.

It is long past time for doctors to begin thinking about the place medicine should have in society, particularly high-tech medicine. High-tech medicine in general has surprisingly small benefits compared to its appalling costs. (For some specific examples of this, such as cardiac bypass surgery, see Nortin Hadler's book, "The Last Well Person.") There are plenty of countries around the world who have public health as good as, or in some cases even better than, the U.S., but pay a lot less for it. Having someone there to hold your hand when you are sick, which is the sort of touch usually eliminated for cost-cutting reasons in U.S. hospitals, is actually cheaper than high-tech medicine and is frequently more effective.

This book should be required reading for all expectant parents, who deserve to know about the hell that could be in store for them should their baby be born sick or early and receive the full panoply of high-tech treatment. Doctors and nurses who work in an NICU, a labor and delivery unit, or who deal with obstetrics should also read it.

As a mother to two preemies, born at 25 weeks gestation, I found Ms. Guyer's book to be an accurate portrayal life in the NNICU and life after the NNICU. The majority of preemies do end up disabled. The outcomes presented in this book are accurate portrayals of the vast majority of children who are born with Extremely Low Birth Weights. All parents-to-be, especially those who are at risk of delivering prematurely should read this book. It should be required reading for every medical student and resident.

I got this book for my son and daughter-in-law for their first baby. They use it for a reference for all things to do with their new son and my beautiful first grandchild.

I loved this book! I liked how the author doesn't focus this book to moms, but refers to "parents" in everything she writes (with the obvious exception of breastfeeding). Her advice is good, practical, and non-judgemental. She discusses issues such as cloth vs. disposable and breast vs. bottle without pushing a particular point of view. She covers important topics many new parents don't think of, like wills and insurance coverage. This is an excellent guide for new parents and non-traditional couples (singles and gays).

Me and my wife are having out first baby in March. I bought this book after reading previous reviews. This book was very helpfull in pointing out the basics on every aspect of having a baby. It really gives you information on every subject and provided me and my wife with a list of decisions we needed to make. I would highly recommend this book for first time parents who want a non biased approach on baby care.

I am a 69 year old grandmother who would have greatly appreciated this book when I was raising my children. After reading the book I gave a copy to my daughter who has two small children. Pointing out the importance of the safety aspect of baby products without leading parents to spent beyond their budget should be high on the priority list for new parents. This book is a common sense, easy to read book covering most aspects of raising a baby.

Ms. Blocker's book goes beyond basics in the friendliest format I've ever seen. This is the book I send all my friends who are expecting whether for the first or fifth time. Even after 5 of my own, I learned from it and found it simple to locate anything I wanted to look up. Her solid advice on pre-birth clothing and supply buying, on what to look for in pre-owned items (practical!) and on almost everything else is fresh and accurate. Only one wish: more about breastfeeding, especially for working women. Ms. Blocker's high degree of professionalism and practical experience shine through on every page -- it's like having a conversation with a knowledgeable, favorite friend who's the best mom you know. Her "Practical Parenting" sidebars add a special touch to this book not found in other 'raising baby' manuals. This isn't 'how to', it's 'why to' and 'have you considered' and 'maybe you might want to think about...' She doesn't give orders, only bright, sensible suggestions. Buy -- enjoy -- apply what she says. You can't go wrong!

I snagged this at our library on a whim but it has quickly become a favorite of mine! Our 2-yr-old loves it too. We have an older child as well so I especially enjoy the inclusion of a doting sibling in the story. What a delightful portrayal of the first year of life, discovering family relationships and physical development.

I also love how the passage of time is marked with seasons rather than cut-and-dried numbered months for each stage. This allows you to enjoy the natural progression without getting hung up on the standard age for each milestone. Both of our children are healthy, but our first was "early" and our second was "late" with most of these "firsts" and it's easy to become a little anxious at times because it's impossible not to compare and contrast with others! How great not to add that stress into a children's storybook!

The watercolor artwork is glowing and gorgeous - it makes you want to just sit and almost breathe it in - it could be framed for a nursery!

The text and changes in font size are expertly done to provide details yet highlight the basics for younger listeners. This would make a lovely baby shower gift. We've now run out of renewals at the library so it's going straight to her wish list so we can have it forever!

Captivating illustrations celebrate the first year of baby's life. Moments after birth, smiles and all the joyous experiences of discovery and accomplishment are revealed in sweet prose and illustrations on each breathtaking page. This book will gently tug at the heartstrings of anyone who has ever loved a baby.

This book is so sweet and beautifully illustrated; It was on a shelf at our local library in the "New Books" section. I picked it up to read to my 20 month old daughter and proceeded to burst into tears! This could have been written about her; all of baby's 1st year milestones are recorded in harmony with nature. It is a simple and charming story. I will buy this book and save it for my little girl - so she can read about herself when she is grown!

The book had beautiful illustrations and a wonderful storyline. It is a wonderful way to celebate a baby's first birthday.

I had four children over a period of ten years, when, frankly, it wasn't fashionable. Realising now that I and my wife have "done our bit" to raise the census count now, we tend to look back very rarely on that period when they were all crawling about or demanding room service...

It's rather sad that while that period is going on, you rarely find people who will barge into the house and actually tell you the truth - that in all this haze of nappies, late nights, worry, and occasional delight, that this period is unreplaceable, precious, and if you look out of the corner of your eye, more than wonderful. Babies are one thing, I guess according to one set of people, but a parallel reality grants them quite incredible powers - they are magical creatures, impossible, fantastic, wise, full of joy and splendour.

This book made me look in precisely that direction - towards the rather long time ago of my own tinies, and I was immensely moved by the memories I had put away of my babies learning every little ordinary thing. And the art is just right and it's all magic.

I had to look the other way, my eyes were rather wet when I finally looked away, and of course I bought it. I'm not sure why, because my babies are now quite big, but I caught my girls reading it, and perhaps it's going to be for their babies, one day in the far distance!

I loved the Owners Manual Book I received as a shower gift with my first child SO much that I shared it with many other parents... so many that I lost track of who and where it ended up. When a friend had a baby I went online to purchase the book for her and found this Starter Kit... which includes the book and so much more. I loved it so much I bought one for myself when my second child was born. It's so funny and actually helpful too. The growth chart with stickers is a great idea!!! Buy this for any first time parents - they will love it!!!

The info in this book is not only helpful, but also written in a very user friendly way. Everything is well organized and is straight to the point. I enjoyed reading this book cover to cover (unlike other baby books that were given to me that I found too wordy). I recommend this book for anyone that is having a hard time getting their mate to read baby books. The book also includes charts that can be used to track your baby's progress. The other things in this keepsake box are not necessary, but are very nice to have. The instructional poster is not only useful, but also a great conversational piece in the nursery.

I gave this to expectant parents who just love it. Every evening the husband sits down and reads it.....really enjoys the format fo the manual.

Finally a baby gift with the father in mind. A gift all men can relate too.

I don't know crap about kids. I'm even more clueless about what to get soon-to-be-parents. When a hipster friend of mine with great taste recommended this kit I thought, "Thank God, my baby-gifting needs are taken care of for the foreseeable future". . . and it was so.

I have purchased not one, not two, but SEVEN of these kits over the last 18 months (geez people). The book is very wry, the bonus items clever and useful, what more do you want? Everyone gets a kick out of this thing. My penpal in Oshkosh, my DJ friend in San Francisco, it's a winner.