Books

Tove Jansson was the author of the Finnish Moomin series of children’s books that include her beautiful, unique illustrations.  The books were originally written in Swedish, as she was part of the minority of Swedish-descended Finns.  She published the first Moomins book, The Moomins and the Great Flood, in 1945 during WWII.  Despite their age, […]

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While I’m not working towards becoming a group leader for an Attachment Parenting International Support Group (at least not until I have a lot more parenting experience), I did find their required reading list interesting and immediately picked a book that I want to read from each of the categories.  I ordered a couple of […]

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I’m not sure how we discovered the Maisy books by Lucy Cousins, I was probably just browsing Amazon.co.uk, but somehow I ran across the Maisy mouse series of books and ordered one.  Oliver just loves them.  The lift-the-flap books are made of seemingly very lightweight cardboard, but are sturdy enough to handle toddler abuse without […]

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Now that my son is entering his toddler years, I wanted a book to turn to for help with discipline. I read through reviews of dozens of books and settled on three, Parent Effectiveness Training: The Proven Program for Raising Respon isible Children by Dr. Thomas Gordon was the first I read. The […]

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The Girlfriends’ Guide to Baby Gear by Vicki Iovine and Peg Rosen
I liked the common-sense approach to product reviews in this book, along with useful shopping lists and recommendations. While not purely a bargain-hunters’ bible (for that, try Baby Bargains), this book still gives good advice about what you need, what you don’t need, what’s […]

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