Infants Books

This has to be my 9 month old daughter's favorite book. She especially loves the illustrations. We love to read it to her at bedtime. It is a sweet story about how precious children are and how we should enjoy being parents. I can't wait to get more books by this same author.

I am an adult Reference Librarian, but as a former Children's Librarian, I was recently assigned to work part of the time in the Children's Department. I have conducted gads and gads of preschool storytimes, toddler times, and programs for school age children over a period of 19 years. But after the summer program ended, we began to see a need in our area for a Baby Lapsit program. We'd had on surge of new parents looking for things to do with Baby, and some of them trying to pass their 3- month-olds as Toddlers and attending programs for a different preschool age group.

Not having taken the plunge into programming for infants and their caregivers before, I felt the need for research. I read everything I could about this type of programming in books and on the Internet, but even working in a library, I didn't have easy access to the title BABIES IN THE LIBRARY by Jane Marino that I ran across online. So I bought the book from Amazon, and I am so thankful I did! It really jump-started my program. I have led 6 weeks of Baby Laptimes as of the time of this writing, and the book has more than paid for itself in the rewards I get from working with cooing, smiling babies and happy mommies every week.

The book tells how to get started, and it even has some sample programs, along with rhymes that are age-appropriate. I took a lot of the ideas, combined them with my own style and personality and ideas, and it has resulted in a program that is earning rave reviews! After we got started we had to stop publicizing it, because word of mouth was enough to spread the word like wildfire, and we wanted to try to keep the group smaller than the average storytime audience for the benefit of those attending.

I wish I'd started doing Laptimes a long time ago! Of course, this book wouldn't have been published yet, so maybe it was perfect timing. Lapsits are a great service to our library patrons, and make my job even more fun than it already was. I used other books that I found in my library system, but this book was the most helpful, and it now has a place of honor as a reference on my shelf by my desk.

I got this one because I personnally enjoy this style of art. I also have daughters and granddaughter. It makes an easy entry for me as a man to discuss being Mom with my girls.

I inherited this book from a relative whose kids had grown past it and it instantly became a favorite of my eldest. My second child liked it so much that he wore it out, and I recently hunted down another copy to share with my third child, and yet another to share with a friend. This simple story's pacing is excellent, reflecting the slow-paced life of a newborn, and is just right for ages 9 mo.- 2 1/2 yrs. The illustrations are charming. I found a plus that the baby appears African-American, and she is fed both by a bottle and by nursing. The pictures of breastfeeding are EXTREMELY modest, with the mommy all covered up and the baby looking quite happy. I think this book might be out of print, but I'd recommend you hunt down a copy (or 2) and snatch it up!

I have a 5 year old child and am now 7 months pregnant with my second child, I discovered things in this books that i went thru in my first pregnancy and that i had no idea of the purposes of it, this book explains everything in details and i'm able to understand more of what is going on inside of my body, i feel that after reading this book i'm ready for anything that comes and has to do with parenthood, I wish i would've read this book when i was pregnant with my first child it would've definitely helped me a lot, i recommend this book, for every woman that is expecting, is planning on having a child or already has a child, because this books helps with all three stages...

I was having trouble in this area and ran across this book. So glad I did! It really has a great solutions for sleep. I can't recommend it enough. I also highly recommend (for colic especially): The Whammy for Babies: Vacuum Cleaner Sounds to Soothe Colic and Fussiness.

A WONDERFUL book. I was first exposed to this book back in South Africa in 1990 when my son was born 2 months prematurely. Not having had children before and with my mother living many hundreds of kilometres away, I needed some guidance and something that I could rely on every day. This book had the answers to everything. Easy to read, easy to find things and most importantly, the advice given in the book was perfect every time. There are no photographs which I find unnecessary and detracting at times, but words of wisdom. The contents pages and index are very useful and one can find anything easily. The book is also written in plain English, no unnecessary medical jargon which one would need a medical dictionary to understand most books of this kind!!!! I have now had my second child, a daughter also born 2 months prematurely, some ten years later, my mother now thousands of kilometres away, and Marina has been there again to help me through the good and bad times of being a new mother. I have just received my Millennium Edition direct from Marina in South Africa and have read it through from cover to cover. It has taught me all the things that one forgets after ten years!!!! I would recommend this book to every expectant mother, new parent and longstanding parents, it will give you the sound advice that nobody else can give you. I also wish to take this opportunity of thanking Marina for such a wonderful book - keep up the good work. I also wish to congratulate her daughter, Chryssa, on the wonderful line drawings they are a pleasure to see when paging through the book.

I have the awesome responsibility of caring for my 1 year old grand daughter while her mom works. I spent hours searching the internet for teaching resources to use with her. I am so thankful that I came across this book. It is just the tool that I was looking for. The activities are lableled by age. The book is put together very well. Caregivers and children will greatly benefit from the contents.

Read the book and then you must try the recipe because it is a real winner! And easy to make, too.

I didn't buy this book on Amazon but saw it here after buying it at a well-known book store for much more....grumble grumble. Having said that, I have to say that this book is definitely worth every penny!

There are easy to follow patterns for over 25 different hats and each one is darling! How to decide which one to knit first?!

I have been knitting for about a year but still consider myself a beginner. This book is perfect for newer knitters because many of the patterns only require knowing how to knit, purl, K2tog,K3tog,yo,join new colors, use DPNs (which isn't hard - just a little awkward), and more. Since you are knitting hats, you will be using circular needles.

The beginning of the book has several illustrated pages of instructions on all the basics that I mentioned previously.

There are more advanced patterns, too. Cables, stranded knitting, etc. are used in a few patterns but there are basic how-to's alongside the pattern so you feel comfortable attempting them.

At the beginning of each pattern the author lists the yarn used, needle size, and skills needed in order to make the exact hat in the picture or one with your own color combinations using similar yarn. She also includes sizing for 0-6mos,6-12 mos,1-2 years,and 2 years and up.

I am almost finished knitting the Accordion Hat and it is coming out just like the one in the book - I am thrilled!

I highly recommend this book. Every hat is so sweet and you will want to knit every one of them for the little sweeties in your life!