Previews, Reviews, and Collection Development
While any one of these three crises—terminal illness, high-risk pregnancy, single parenthood—can send a parent into a tail-spin, librarians can offer their patrons some of the excellent new titles reviewed this month. Bay Buchanan gives single parents an enthusiastic boost with her parenting memoir, Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish are back with an updated, 30th-anniversary edition of the [...]
“Winner, winner, chicken dinner!” The parenting titles this month offer unique additions to any parenting collection. They include creative approaches to homework, communication strategies for autistic children, a handy guide to pediatrician visits during a baby’s first year, and a comprehensive (if frightful) look at germs. They are joined by some solid offerings in more [...]
There’s an Eat, Pray, Love thing going on in parenting this winter. Feel better about food with Jena Pincott’s Do Chocolate Lovers Have Sweeter Babies?, a fun science read I loved. It’s much easier on moms’ minds than books about all the genetic abnormalities that can occur during pregnancy. (Turns out the chocolate is okay, [...]
Be prepared to have your funny bone tickled this month, because parenting’s humorous side is on full display—especially in Go the Fuck To Sleep, which someone seems to mention daily. This includes my mother, who told me she didn’t think it was a funny book and that “ladies and gentlemen should not need to resort [...]
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