Childrens Days Books

This is part of a very cute series about Fluffy the guinea pig. Very endearing for those who love guinea pigs---it's hard to find many kids books about them.

My six year old loves Fluffy and his bad attitude and I have to confess so do I. When I'm overdosing on the treacly, politically correct reading material that comes home from school Fluffy is the perfect antidote

I have read two of the Fluffy books. I love them and so do my kids. I cannot wait to read the other two about Fluffy. These are books I don't mind reading over and over with my children. Thank you for them!

Informative, clear, and concise.
Whether you're a total newbie, or a veteran to the family day care arena, you will find something useful to take away from this read.

This book is a must read for all family child care providers. I read it cover to cover in a day and a half. It provides new and seasoned providers with practical information and suggestions to apply to their business. The author encourages providers to take a good look at the care and services they provide and shows them how to become successful professional business owners. It will be a resource I use for years to come.

From Babysitter To Business Owner: Getting The Most Out Of Your Home Child Care Business by Patricia Dischler (operator of Patty Cake Preschool., Prairie Du Sac, Wisconsin for fifteen years) is the ideal introduction and "how to" guidebook for setting up and maintaining a profitable child care service. Aspiring home day care operators will learn how to select new clients and retain valued continuing clients, how to develop and utilize a parent handbook, how to select an appropriate and manageable curriculum for their young charges, how to create work spaces in the home, and how to set long-term personal, professional, and business goals for their entrepreneurial child care, home-based business. The informative and thoroughly "reader friendly" text is enhanced with inspirational sidebars, lists of suggested resources, and a "3 Things You Can Do Today" checklist. If you are considering a home-based childcare business, then give a careful reading to Patricia Dishcler's From Babysitter To Business Owner.

This lovely and useful children's book was recommended to me by a fellow mental health professional. As a psychologist treating adults, I sometimes deal with parents who unconsciously transmit their own anxieties to their vulnerable, impressionable children. Go Home, Mrs. Beekman! is a playful antidote to this problem, using humor to show parents and children alike that the "first day jitters" can be handled successfully and that children will adapt quickly to a new school if parents can model letting go. The author, Ann Redisch Stampler, skillfully teaches both parent and child to accept the change that separation brings and she does it without making either feel ashamed. The book is really fun and funny and humor, after all, is the highest defense. The book is beautifully illustrated by Marsha Gray Carrington, who brings the story to life with lots of color and characters who captivate the reader's imagination (I particularly enjoyed seeing Mrs. Beekman not so cleverly disguised as a large green dog in her attempt to sneak into her daughter's class). I won't hesitate to recommend this book to parents who are about to send their children off to daycare or school for the first time. Bravo!!!

Ann Stampler does it again! A beautifully written children's book. This time, she tackles the theme of separation anxiety. Creatively, she deals with this topic from the point of view of the parent. This allows the child to attribute their own fears to another, which helps them work through their feelings without having to own up to them directly.
Many parents will also identify with Mrs. Beekman, who through many wonderful disguises, attempts to stay at school with her child all day.

As I drive to work in the morning and see the anxious faces of both parents and kids as the kindergarden bus arrives, I wish I could hand out this book at each bus stop.

As a psychotherapist, I will be recommending this book to my clients who are struggling with "the first day of school".

Nancy Adler-Jones, MSW

The night I got this book was the second day of Kindergarten for my son. We sat down and read it together. In the story, Emily Beekman refuses come out of the fort she's built in her bedroom and go to the first day of school unless her mother promises to stay at school with her forever. Mrs. Beekman promises. Nevertheless, unfortunately, even after Emily forms a bond with her teacher, makes new friends, and is perfectly happy to go to school on her own, Mrs. Beekman just won't leave.
I immediately made a connection with the mother in the story. Unlike the child in the story my son was soooooo excited about the first day of school. Me on the other hand, I wasn't quite sure if I wanted to let him go to this unusual place all by himself. I connected with Mrs. Beekman's need to watch over her child. She became a fly on the wall at her daughters's school by transforming herself into a coat rack, a hat, a hula hoop, and some other interesting things. As we read, I could relate. Those first few days of school had me wondering how my son was doing, if he was listening to the teacher, if he was having fun, and if he missed me. Much to the dismay of the teacher in the story, Mrs. Beekman saw it all in her daughters class! That lucky Mrs. Beekman!!!!
The book is adorable. The story entertained both me and my son. I think this would be a great gift to give to a parent who has a child going into grade K. Not many (if any) back to school books display how a parent may have a more difficult time letting go of a child; than the child has of letting go of the parent. Ann Stampler does a super job of making this story flow. My son of course thought the story was funny and I thought the story had a hidden truth in it about how parents have anxiety too about the first day of school.
I also think this would make a fun read for the first few days of school. It would be fun to have the class draw a picture of their parents at school with them. You could discuss: How would your mom or dad hide if he or she came to school? Would you like your mom or dad to be at school with you everyday?

This book has just been made into a movie called "The First of May" starring Julie (East of Eden) Harris as Carlotta, introducing Dan Byrd as Cory, Charles Nelson Reilly, and Mickey Rooney, with a cameo by Joe DiMaggio. It wrapped in Lake Helen, Florida in mid December '97 and will be distributed in 1998.

This book was one of the best, most delightful, insightfully written and charmingly told story. Heard it's going to be made into a movie with Julie Harris starring as the lead and Charles Nelson Reilly and Joe DiMaggio in supporting roles!

This book has just been made into a movie called "The First of May" starring Julie (East of Eden) Harris as Carlotta, introducing Dan Byrd as Dan, Charles Nelson Reilly, and Mickey Rooney, with a cameo by Joe DiMaggio. It wrapped in Lake Helen, Florida in mid December '97 and will be distributed in 1998.

As an elemenatry librarian I found this book to be very clear and concise about the "holiday". The text is straight forward, clear and to the point. It also presents a starting point for further research about the holiday for older readers. The photos are very clear and there is a "glossary" of sorts that I have used with Kindergarten classes.

Groundhog Day is a good introduction for young children to the holiday. My class will love the photos.

I love this series and this new addition is simply adorable! Perfect for a young reader learning about Groundhog Day.

The author loves to go barefoot and as the mother of four grown children, she has tied more shoes than she can count. She is the author of several picture books including The Seasons Sewn: A Year in patchwork, which won the Carl Sandburg Award for Children's Literature. Nadine illustrates with such flair and will make you smile...even though she would rather have all the shoes in this book and not go barefoot.

A little girl in pink pajamas awakens with the words: "Good morning, toes, Good morning, feet, tangled up between my sheets." She then puts on bunny slippers and bounces around to the closet door. The puppy dog in the story actually brings her the slippers.

The next page will make every little girl wish she had a closet filled with all these pretty shoes. Red high heels with bows, alligator sock shoes, fluffy orange slippers, boots and yellow sandals decorated with fruit. After clomping down the stairs in her polka dot red
high heels, she changes into something a bit more practical. Then the real fun starts.

She leaps and skips and goes down a slide, swings and points her toes up high, jumps across a creek and then heads home for lunch. While her baby brother naps, she walks quietly in her red boots and heads outside to shuffle along in leaves.

After taking off her shoes, she squishes her toes into muddy ooze and then dances in a puddle and cleans her feet off. She then takes a big bubble bath, dries her feet and snuggles between her sheets.

Completely Adorable and perfect for bedtime reading.

~The Rebecca Review

Really a delightful story that journals a day in life of a girl who from her feets' perspective. The illustrations are bright and interesting. My two year old just loves the book.

Really enjoy this book, especially for reading aloud to a group of children. I particularly like the rhyming and very "active" vocabulary. Colorful and charming pictures complement the text very well.

This book should be required reading for all those in counseling. Everything we are stems from our parents. Even those of us who have very little contact with our parents can learn a great deal, even if we don't have children.

This book teaches why we are the way we are and how we can overcome the wrongs that have been done us by just understanding where our feelings are coming from. As a grown adult raising children I have learned more about myself in the span of reading this one book, then I have in my whole lifetime.

I feel this book will help anyone with their walk with Christ.

Reading this book when it was first published 15 years ago, I thought it was sooo good that I developed an entire class based on its outline. I've taught that class at my home church now, since 1993, to hundreds of people. And I've read a lot more books on Christian parenting since then too.

This book remains the single best parenting guide I have read. There are LOTS of terrific authors out there, including Dobson, Rainey, Smalley, etc. But this book compartmentalizes an easy-to-remember approach to parenting in the "6 A's of Positive (Biblical) Parenting" which anyone can remember.

With 4 kids myself, I cannot remember any situation we've faced in which I was unable to effectively address things using one or more of the 6 A's explained in this book. That's what makes it so valuable - you can actually remember the concepts and techniques and how to apply them.

The book is full of personal examples from the authors' live which will make you laugh and bring a tear or two. It's a great, personal, volume chock full of practical advice and FUN. You'll love reading it and the pages will fly past.

Now that it's out of print, get yourself a used copy from a reputable seller!

Truly the best (and most relevant) book I have ever read on Christian Parenting. The book is filled to the brim with PRACTICAL, RELEVANT advice on how to be a successful parent, and, yes, a Hero to your kids.

Basing their thesis on five main Parenting concepts, and amply supported with Scriptural references and real-life experiences, the authors present a clear, workable strategy to really improve your parenting, in such a way that you can teach your children the lessons of life, whilst still retaining their respect and absolute love for you.

A must read for anyone who would like to gain new insights in Christian Parenting.

I bought this to help with ideas for my sons fifth birthday. It had lots of great crafts, decoration ideas, food, games, etc. It even came with a little paper hat, a paper gold earring, a paper eyepatch, and paper pieces for a game that was included in the back. The only thing I wasn't happy with was the food and the only thing I've made the kids was the Grog. The rest of the stuff was sugar filled junk that the kids would adore but would make the parents shudder. All in all, a great little book that I was proud to add to my library.

This book is featured at the Royal Yacht Britannia gift shop in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is well written and humorous. And has lots of crafts with a pirate theme. Recommended for pirates over 6.

Bought this book as a gift for a six year old boy and it has been a HUGE hit with him. Lots of activities to do and includes a mask.

It's a shame that this book is no longer in print because, to put it simply, these methods work. If you have children in school, you can and will help them improve their grades if you apply these methods.

If I only had this book for myself, even as late as college! I bought my first copy in 76 and used it for my two younger children. Now I am recommending the updated version to both my children, for my grandchildren, and to the parents of my third grade students. If you never buy another book on parenting and child care be sure to get this one! IT WORKS! Thank you Mr. Schwartz.

bring up children's grades cannot be done overnight, that is for sure. And this book emphasize that. and the most reliable method is consistency. there are plenty of practical examples of how to help with your child's work, instead of just pure theory. i found this book very helpful.

My children are all grown and I'm expecting my first grandchild. This was my bible when I was rearing my own and I am thrilled to be able to share it with my daughter.

Marvin Gersh was my son's pediatrician 30+ years ago. His down-to-earth caring approach to child care is well reflected in this book. Helpful hints as well as practical solutions to every-day problems. He even has a chapter on toxic plants. A must have for all new parents. Easy to read,funny and extremely informative. I have given this book as a gift at many baby showers.

This book is indispensable for any parent. Informal and down-to-earth, it gives you all the information you need (and some you didn't know you needed) in terms funny enough to make you want to read it just for the good lines. I have Spock, but I don't use him half as much as Gersh. I got this book when it came out in paperback about thirty years ago and I've relied on it ever since. It told me more than my mother did and kept me from driving my pediatrician nuts. I think it's great and I ought to know -- I've raised nine children on Gersh and all the married ones call me to ask what Gersh says about their kids' ailments. If I could afford it I'd give a copy to each of my kids as a first-baby gift.