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TOPIC: Parenting Your Toddler and Preschooler
Positive Discipline Series, Jane Nelson
Positive Time-Out, Jane Nelson
Discipline Without Shouting or Spanking, Jerry Wyckoff and Barbara Unell
Raising Self-Reliant Children in a Self-Reliant World, Glenn and Nelsen
Setting Limits, Robert J. MacKenzie
Raising Your Spirited Child, Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
Siblings Without Rivalry, Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk, Faber and Mazlish
How to Behave So Your Preschooler Will too, Sal Severe
How To Behave So Your Children Will too, Sal Severe
Your Two Year Old, Louise Bates Ames (Series thru age 14)
Touchpoints, T. Berry Brazelton
Touchpoints, Three to Six, T. Berry Brazelton
Toddlers and Parents, T. Berry Brazelton
Loving Your Child Is Not Enough, Nancy Samalin
Love and Anger, Samalin
Don’t Take It Out on Your Kids, Katharine Kersey
No More Bedtime Battles, Lee Canter and Marlene Canter
Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, Marc Weissbluth
What To Expect the Toddler Years, Eisenberg, Murkoff and Hathaway
Your Child’s Self Esteem, Dorothy Briggs
Self-Esteem: A Family Affair, Jean Clarke
How to Develop Self-Esteem in Your Child, Bettie Young
The Emotional Life of the Toddler, Lieberman
The Successful Child, William Sears, MD & Martha Sears, RN
Becoming the Parent You Want To Be, Laura Davis and Janis Keyser
Parenting From the Inside Out by Daniel Siegel and Mary Hartzell
Raising a Secure Child-Creating an Emotional Connection Between You and Your Child by Zeynep Biringen
TOPIC: Positive Discipline
Positive Discipline, Jane Nelsen
Positive Discipline: The First Three Years, Nelsen, Erwin and Duffy
Positive Discipline A-Z, Nelsen, Lott & Glenn
Positive Discipline for Preschoolers, Nelsen, Erwin & Duffy
Positive Time-Out, Jane Nelsen
TOPIC: Adoption
Adopting the Hurt Child: Gregory Keck
Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self, David Brodzinsky
Facilitating Developmental Attachment: The Road to Emotional Recovery and Behavioral Change in Foster and Adopted Children, Daniel Hughes
Journey of the Adopted Self: At for Wholeness, Betty Jean Lifton
Parenting with Love and Logic: Preparing Adolescents for Responsible Adulthood, Foster Cline
Parenting with Love and Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility, Foster Cline
The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child, Nancy Verrier
The Spirit of Open Adoption, James Gritter
Talking with Young Children about Adoption, Susan Fisher
Under His Wings: Creating a Safe Place for Adoptees to Talk about Adoption, Sherrie Eldridge
Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish their Adoptive Parents Knew, Sherrie Eldridge
The Whole Life Adoption Book: Realistic Advice for Building a Healthy Adoptive Family, Jayne Schooler
Family of Adoption, Joyce Pavoc
Birthright, Jean Strauss
Real Parents, Real Children. Holly van Gulden
Touched by Adoption, Robinson
Birthbond, Judith Gedman
Shadow Mothers, McKay
Perspectives on a Grafted Tree, Johnson
Lost and Found, Betty Jean Lifton
Loved by Choice, Horner
Are Those Your Kids?, Cheri Register
A Passage to the Heart, Amy Klatzkin
InsideTransracial Adoption, Gail Steinberg
The Adoption Reunion Survival Guide, Bailey and Giddens
Parenting your Older Adopted Child, McCreight
The Post-Adoption Blues by Karen Foli and John Thompson
When Love Is Not Enough (A Guide to Parenting Children with RAD(Reactive Attachment Disorder) by Nancy Thomas
Building the Bonds of Attachment(Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children) by Daniel Hughes
Facilitating Developmental Attachment (the road to emotional recovery and behavioral change in foster and adopted children) by Daniel Hughes
The Spirit of Open Adoption by James L. Gritter
Parenting Your Adopted Older Child by Brenda McCreight
TOPIC: Multiples
Raising Twins--What parents Want to Know(and What Twins Want to Tell them) by Eileen M. Pearlman and Jill Allison Ganon
Having Twins by Elizabeth Noble
The Art of Parenting Twins by Patricia Maxwell and Janet Poland
TOPIC: Children’s Books about Adoption:
Mario’s Big Question: Where Do I Belong?, Carolyn Nystrom
The Mulberry Bird, Anne Brodzinsky
Two Orphan Cubs, Barbara Brenner
Brian Was Adopted, Doris Sanford
Always Room for One More, Leodhas
Emma’s Yucky Brother, Jean Little
The Kissing Hand, Penn
Love You Forever
Mama, Do You Love Me?
On the Day You Were Born, Frasier
Runaway Bunny
Too Much Noise, McGovern
Velveteen Rabbit, Bianco
The Wretched Stone, Van Allsburg
Why Was I Adopted?
Mama Bird, Baby Birds, Angela Johnson
The Frog Who Wanted to be a Singer, Linda Goss
The Korean Cinderella, Shirley Climo
The Aunt in our House, Angela Johnson
The Day we Met You, Phoebe Koehler
The Face in the Mirror, Marion Crook
Loved by Choice
Journey’s after Adoption, J. Schooler
We Adopted You, Benjamin Koo, Linda Walvoord Girard
How It Feels to be Adopted, Jill Krementz
Over the Moon, Karen Katz
Jin Woo, Eve Bunting
Adoption is for Always, Girard
Happy Adoption Day, John McCutcheon
And Then There Was Me, Finkbeiner
The Angel Factory, Terrance Blackler
Coffee Can Kid, Jan Czech
TOPIC: Safety
Books for Adults:Protecting the Gift , Gavin DeBecker
Books for Children:No Dragons for Tea – Fire safety for kids, Jean Pendziwel
Watch Out for Strangers, Paul Humphrey
Who Is a Stranger? What Should I do?, Linda Girard
The Sneetches, Dr. Seuss
The Safety Zone, Donna Chaiet
Bullies Are a Pain in the Brain, Trevor Romain
Berenstain Bears and the Bully, Stan & Jan Berenstein
The Boy Who Sat By The Window, Chris Loftis
Learn About Strangers, Stan & Jan Berenstain
Just Lost , Gina & Mercer Mayer
TOPIC: Your Body
Your Body Belongs to You , Cornelia Spelman
Where Did I Come From?, Peter Mayle
TOPIC: Sibling Rivalry
Siblings Without Rivalry, Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
Beyond Sibling Rivalry, Peter Goldenthal
The Successful Child, William Sears, MD & Martha Sears, RN
Positive Discipline for Preschoolers, Jane Nelsen
Discipline Without Shouting or Spanking, Jerry Wyckoff and Barbara Unell
Raising Self-Reliant Children in a Self-Reliant World, Glenn & Nelsen
Setting Limits, Robert J. MacKenzie
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk, Faber and Mazlish
How To Behave So Your Children Will, too, Sal Severe
How To Behave So Your Preschooler Will, too, Sal Severe
TOPIC: Single Parenting
Books for Adults:
Sharing the Children, Robert Adler
Without Spanking or Spoiling, Kids Can Cooperate, and Pick Up Your Socks, Elizabeth Crary
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids will Talk, Adele Farber & Elaine Mazlish
Mom’s House, Dad’s House, Isolina Ricci
Divorce Hangover, Anne Walther
Second Chances, Judith Wallerstein & Sandra Blakeslee
Divorce Books for Parents, Vicki Lansky
Getting to Yes: Negotiation Agreement Without Giving In, Roger Fisher&William Ury
Helping Your Children with Divorce: A Compasionate Guide for Parents, Edward Teyber
Single Father’s Handbook, Richard Gatley
Single Fathers, Geoffrey Greif
Books for Children:
My Mom and Dad Are Getting A Divorce, Florence Bienenfeld
Its Not the End of the World, Judy Blume
Dinosaurs Divorce: A Guide to Changing Families, Marc/Laurene Krasny Brown
Dear Mr. Henshaw, Beverly Cleary
The Divorce Express, Paula Danziger
Always, Always, Crescent Dragonwater
I Have Two Families, Doris Helmering
How It Feels When Parents Divorce, Jill Krementz
What’s Going to Happen to Me? Eda LeShan
TOPIC: Preparing for the New Baby
Books for Adults:
The Baby Book, William Sears,M.D. and Martha Sears, RN
The First Three Months, William Sears, M.D. and Martha Sears, RN
Parenting the Fussy Baby and High Need Child, Sears and Sears
What to Expect the First Year, Eisenberg, Murkoff, Hathaway
On Becoming A Family,The Growth of Attachment, T. Berry Brazelton, M.D.
Touchpoints, Brazelton
Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, Marc Weissbluth, MD.
Crying Baby, Sleepless Nights, Sandy Jones
Super Baby Food, Ruth Yaron
Nursing Mother’s Guide to Weaning, Kathleen Huggins and Linda Ziedrich
And Baby Makes Four, Welcoming the Second Child into the Family, Hilory Wagner
Books for Children:
Baby on the Way, William Sears, M.D. and Martha Sears, RN
When the New Baby Comes, I’m Moving Out, Martha Alexander
What to Expect When the New Baby Comes Home, Heidi Murkoff
On Mother’s Lap, Ann Herbert Scott
I’m the Big Sister, Joanna Coll
Julius:Baby of the World, Kevin Henkes
Arthur’s Baby, Marc Brown
We Got This New Baby at our House, Janet Sinberg
The New Baby, Mercer Mayer
My Baby Brother and Me, Jane Drake and Ann Love
The New Baby, Fred Rogers
Little Bear is a Big Brother, Jutta Langreuter and Vera Sobat
Hello Baby, Lizzy Rockwell
Sophie and the New Baby, Laurence Anholt
The New Baby, Robie H. Harris
TOPIC: Death, Grief and Loss
Books for Adults:What Happened
to the World: Helping Children Cope in Turbulent Times, J. Greenman
Up From Grief, Bernadine Kreis and Alice Pattie
The Bereaved Parent, Harriet Sarnoff Schiff
Good Grief, Sandra Fox
Gentle Closings: How to Say Goodbye to Someone You Love, Ted Menton
Learning to Say Goodbye when a Parent Dies, Eda Le Shan
On Children and Death, Kubler-Ross
Talking with Children About Death, Hedda Sharagan
Necessary Losses, Judith Viorist
Bend Without Breaking, Mary Ella Stuart
Books for Children:
How Do I Feel When People Die? Sarah Levete
You Hold Me and I’ll Hold You, Jo Carson
The Saddest Time. Norman Simon
Last Week My Brother Anthony Died, Martha Hickman
Everett Anderson’s Goodbye , Lucille Clifton
Grandpa’s Slide Show, Deborah Goul
The Fall of Freddie The Leaf, Leo Buscalgia
I Will Remember You, Laura Dower
Terrible Thing Happened, Margaret Holmes
Grandad Bill’s Song, Jane Yolen
Fox Song, Joseph Bruchac
Topic: Moving
Books for Children:
The Leaving Morning, Angela Johnson
What You Knew First , Patricia MacLachlen
Topic: Disabilities
Books for Children:
With The Wind, Liz Damre
Be Good to Eddie Lee, Virginia Flemming
A Special Kind of Sister, Lucia B. Smith
Mandy, Barbara D. Boot
Just A Little Different, Bonnie Doblain
Topic: Differences and Similarities
Books for Children:
All the Colors We Are by Katie Kissinger
Two Eyes, a Nose & a Mouth, Roberta Grobel Intrater
No Fair to Tigers, Eric Hoffman
Best Best Colors, Celeste Henriquez
Black Like Kyra-White Like Me, Judith Vigna
Topic: Parenting a Tweener (usually about ages 10-13)
The Tween Years by Donna Corwin
Raising a Thinking Preteen by Myrna B. Shure
Talking to Tweens by Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer
Your 10-14 Year Old by Louise Bates-Ames
Strong Mothers, Strong Sons by Ann. F. Caron
The Wonder of Boys by Michael Gurian
The Minds of Boys by Michael Gurian
The Wonder of Girls by Michael Gurian
The Good Son by Michael Gurian
Raising Boys by Steve Biddulph
Real Boys by William Pollack
Raising Boys Without Men by Peggy Drexler
Positive Discipline by Jane Nelsen
Setting Limits by Robert MacKenzie
Raising Self-Reliant Children in a Self-Indulgent World by H. Stephen Glenn
The Successful Child by William Sears
Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys by Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson
How to Discipline Your 6-12 Year Old by Jerry L. Wyckoff
How to Talk So Your Kids Will Listen and Listen So Your Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber
Topic: Parenting Teens
Positive Discipline for Teenagers by Jane Nelsen
Between Parent and Teenager, Haim Ginott
How To Stay Connected to Your Teenager by M. Riera
Real Boys, William Pollack
Parenting Your Teenage in the 90ís , David Elkind (author of the Hurried Child)
Defiant Teens, Barclay
How To Say It To Teens, Heyman
Teens in Turmoil, Carol Maxym
Parents, Teens and Boundaries , Jane Bluestein
Raising Confident Sons, Elizabeth Hartley Brewer
Get Out of My Life, But First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to theMall? Anthony E. Wolf
Raising Self-Reliant Children in a Self-Indulging World, H. Stephen Glenn
Setting Limits (How to raise responsible, independent children by providing clear boundaries) by Robert MacKenzie
Parenting Teens with Love and Logic, Foster Cline
How to Talk So Your Kids Will Listen and Listen So Your Kids Will Talk, Adele Faber
Raising Self-Reliant Children in a Self-Indulgent World, Glenn H. Stephen
Safeguarding Your Teenagers from the Dragons of Life, Bettie Young
The Teen Code-How to Talk to Us about Sex, Drugs and everything Else—Teenagers Reveal What Works Best by Rhett Godfrey