Our Favorites Books

By Age:

Babies:

Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Baby, Marc Weissbluth, M.D.

The Happiest Baby on the Block, Dr. Harvey Karp

Your Baby’s First Year, American Acad. of Pediatrics

Heading Home With Your Newborn, AAP
 
Your Baby & Child, Penelope Leach Infants and Mothers, T. Berry Brazelton

Laughter and Tears—the Emotional Life of New Mothers, Bing and Coleman

The Nursing Mother's Companion, Kathleen Huggins

Nursing Mother, Working Mother, Gayle Pryor

First Meals, Annabelle Karmel

Your Baby's First Year, Steven P. Shelov

Brain Rules for Baby, John Medina

Toddlers

1,2,3 Magic, Thomas Phelan- Dr. Nikki’s Must Have!

Siblings Without Rivalry, Adele Faber – Awesome!

Toddler 411 3rd Edition, Denise Fields & Ari Brown

The Happiest Toddler on the Block, Harvey Karp

The Yale Child Study Center Guide to Understanding Your Child, Linda Mayes & Donald Cohen

Raising a Self-Disciplined Child, Robert Brooks & Sam Goldstein

The Second Twelve Months of Life, Frank Kaplan & Theresa Kaplan

The Irreducible Needs of Children, T. Berry Brazelton & Stanley Greenspan

“What’s Happening to My Body?”:  A Book for Boys, Lynda Madaras

Sex, Puberty, and All That Stuff, A Guide to Growing Up, Jacqui Bailey

It’s So Amazing, Robie H. Harris

It’s Perfectly Normal, Robie H. Harris

Everything You Never Wanted Your Kids to Know about Sex (but were afraid they'd ask),

Justin Richardson and Mark A. Schusterm – Highly recommended

The Period Book—everything you don't want to ask (but need to know), Karen & Jennifer Gravelle


My Body Belongs to Me, Jill Sterishevsky

I Said No! A Kid-to-Kid Guide to Keeping Private Parts Private, Zach and Kimberly King


What's Biology All About, Usborne

Where Did I Come From?, Lyle Stuart

Teens and Older Children

Girls on the Edge, Leonard Sax

Best Friends, Worst Enemies, Michael Thompson, Catherine O'Neill Grace, & Lawrence J. Cohen

Getting it Right With Teens, Madelyn Swift

How Children Succeed, Paul Tough

Letting Go With Love and Confidence, Kenneth Ginsberg & Susan Fitzgerald

See Jane Win, Sylvia Rimm, Sarah Rimm-Kaufman, & Ilonna Rimm

Yardsticks, Chip Wood

Who's Game Is It, Anyway?, Richard D. Ginsberg, Steven Durant, & Amy Baltzel

Real Boys, William Pollack

Get Out of My Life, But First Can You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall?, Anthony E. Wolf

Reviving Ophelia, Mary Pipher

"Trust Me, Mom — Everyone Else Is Going!", Roni Cohen-Sandler

"I'm Not Mad, I Just Hate You!", Roni Cohen-Sandler

Between Parent and Child, Haim G. Ginott

Quiet:  The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, Susan Cain

By Type:

Sensory Integration:

Introduction to How Does Your Engine Run?, Mary Sue Williams

Take Five!  Staying Alert at Home and School, Mary Sue Williams

The Out-of-Sync Child, Carol Stock Kranowitz

The Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun:  Activities for Kids With Sensory Processing Disorder, Carol

Stock Kranowitz

The Challenging Child, Stanley I. Greenspan & Jacqueline

 

Abuse
NO Trespassing - This is MY Body, Pattie Fitzgerald

Anxiety
What To Do When You Worry Too Much Workbook, Huebner

Freeing Your Child From Anxiety, Tamar E. Chansky

SOS For Parents, Lynn Clark

New Siblings
When the New Baby Comes, I'm Moving Out, Martha
 
Alexander The Pain and the Great One, Judy Blume
 
The Lap Snatcher, Bruce Coville
 
Peter's Chair, Ezra Jack Keats
 
The New Baby, Fred Rogers
 
Pecan Pie Baby, Jacqueline Woodson

More books about expecting a new baby for siblings
 
Death and Grieving
When Someone VERY Special Dies, Marge Heegard
 
Remembering Crystal, Sebastian Loth
 
The 10^th Great Thing About Barney, Judith Viorst
 
Nutrition
Good Enough to Eat, Lizzy Rockwell

Lice
There's a Louse in my House, Sheri Hayes