Ready for the Day! And Ready for Bed! By Stacy R. Kaye, MMR ($12.95, Free Spirit Publishing) use colorful drawings and the language of positive parenting to ease grown-ups and children through the most stressful parenting moments. You will learn how to handle bedtime and morning time by offering choices and providing encouragement. These techniques help parents develop the keys to raising strong, happy kids by helping parents get through everyday challenges with less struggle and stress and by implanting confidence, self-esteem, and emotional intelligence in children.
Everybody Eats Lunch created & written by Cricket Azima, Art by Titus V. Thomas. ($10.88, Glitterati, Inc.). Everybody Eats Lunch reinforces healthy eating habits while encouraging children to explore different cultures. Children learn cooking, math, social studies and geography, telling time, languages, reading and nutrition, all while enjoying the removable images of food.
Penny House
Most of us are collectors. For some it is a hobby, like collecting stamps or old teacups. And for some of us, our collections of "stuff" are more from years of living and not wanting to get rid of the books we may want to read again or clothes we may want to wear again.
Well, Mr. Alfred C. Dunphee wakes up on the morning of his 100th birthday and says to his dog Pup, "It's time to make some changes. You are only 100 once!" And so begins the delightful story told by 77 year-young Dirk Wales in Penny House. ($16.95, Great Plains Press) A unique combination of birthday fun and sly commentary about how much "stuff" we all have, the story follows the changes Mr. Dunphee makes during his birthday week.
