Amazing Baby. Desmond Morris, $24.95

This insightful and beautiful reference follows the biology, physics, chemistry and other sciences that drive the rapid changes that occur daily in babies.

The Amazing Infant. Tiffany Field, $39.99

Tiffany Field takes the reader on a wonderful journey, as she combines research, theory and real-life experiences to create this comprehensive and enjoyable guide to infant development.

Amazing Minds: from Newborns to Toddlers. Jan Faull & Jennifer McLean Oliver, $18.50

The science of nurturing your child’s developing mind with games, activities and more.

The Attachment Connection: Parenting a Secure & Confident Child Using the Science of Attachment Theory. Ruth Newton, $18.95

The Attachment Connection sorts out the facts from the fiction about parent-child attachment and shows how paying attention to the emotional needs of your child, particularly during the first five years of development, can help him or her grow up happy, secure, and confident. You'll discover how your child's brain is developing at each stage of growth and learn to use reasonable, easy-to-implement guidelines based on sound science to foster secure attachment, healthy social skills, and emotional regulation in your child.

Babies in Mind: Understanding Your Baby’s Psychological Needs. Jenny Perkel, $20.95

Being a new parent is immensely challenging. Not only do you have to handle your baby's physical needs, but her psychological needs too. Babies in Mind explains how to give babies what they really need from a purely psychological perspective. Written for parents, the book is informed by psychological and medical research which shows that the way in which babies are handled and related to by their caregivers has a direct and powerful link to the kind of people they will grow into.

The Baby in the Mirror: a Child’s World from Birth to Three. Charles Fernyhough, $16.95

For Charles Fernyhough, the birth of his daughter Athena was an opportunity to view the psychological development and growth of a child first hand. Integrating scientific research with careful observation and questioning, this unique study investigates what it is like to be a newborn baby, an infant on the threshold of language, and a toddler testing out autonomy. Using Athena as a case study, Fernyhough vividly describes the huge amount of mental work children undertake right from birth. En route, he explains in simple terminology the ideas of the great child psychologists—including Vygotsky, Piaget, and Bowlby—and introduces some of the latest neuroscientific and developmental research. Written with a father’s tenderness and a keen scientific eye, this funny, touching, and fascinating investigation will allow parents and all those interested by child development to understand the extraordinary journey a child makes during the first three years of life.

Baby’s Best Chance: Parent’s Handbook of Pregnancy and Baby Care, Sixth Edition. Province of British Columbia, Ministry for Children and Families, $15.95

This easy-to read, well-illustrated handbook offers answers to common and not-so-common questions about pregnancy, birth and taking care of baby in the first six months of life.

The Brightening Glance: Imagination and Childhood. Ellen Handler Spitz, $19.95

In this remarkable book, Ellen Handler Spitz shows how to promote children’s creative and emotional growth by making the most of the unlimited possibilities of everyday experiences. Through delightful anecdotes about real children and their treasures, bedrooms, play spaces, music, scary things, and birthday parties, The Brightening Glance will inspire you to create a life of wonder, inventiveness, and cultural enrichment for your child.

Caring for Infants and Toddlers in Groups: Developmentally Appropriate Practice (2nd Edition). ZERO TO THREE, $32.95

Featuring an age-based approach to link developmental milestones to positive learning experiences and filled with research-based information, this guide outlines ways infant care teachers in both center-based and family child care programs can positively impact the learning and lives of the children and families they serve.

Charting the Bumpy Road of Coparenthood: Understanding the Challenges of Family Life. James McHale, $39.50

Filled with interviews with new parents and observations of new parents and their babies, this major new study offers key information that clinicians, policymakers, and parents need to know about creating consistent and coordinated co-parenting strategies during pregnancy and in a child’s earliest years. Author James McHale, explains how parents work together—or don’t—to care for infants and young children, and how the quality of their co-parenting alliance affects toddlers’ social and emotional development.

The Child: an Encyclopedic Companion from Birth through Adolescence. Richard A. Shweder, Editor in Chief, $90.50

The Child: an Encyclopedic Companion offers both parents and professionals access to the best scholarship from all areas of child studies in a remarkable one-volume reference. Bringing together contemporary research on children and childhood from pediatrics, child psychology, childhood studies, education, sociology, history, law, anthropology, and other related areas, The Child contains more than 500 articles—all written by experts in their fields. It is an unparalleled resource for parents, social workers, researchers, educators, and others who work with children.

Child: How Children Think, Learn and Grow in the Early Years. Desmond Morris, $35.99

Anthropologist Desmond Morris explores the world of young children aged from 2 to 5 as they emerge from toddlerhood and start out on the long road to independence. These early years are a time when the capacities for learning and sheer exuberance for life are unparalleled.  

This insightful guide contains a wealth of information about all aspects of development. Age-by-stage profiles describe growth patterns, social and emotional behavior, physical and cognitive skills. Gestures and body language are interpreted to guide the reader to a better understanding of personality and what young children are thinking and feeling. Enchanting photographs capture typical actions and reactions to everyday experiences.

Complete Book of Mother & Baby Care from Conception to 3 Years, 3rd Edition. CMA (Canadian Medical Association), $30.00

Authoritative, reassuring and practical this companion for parents on pregnancy, postpartum, infant and toddler care is illustrated with full colour photographs. This very accessible, easy-to-read guide includes a quick reference for emergencies, vital information about childhood illnesses, home safety and first aid.

The Cultural Nature of Human Development. Barbara Rogoff, $31.95

Three-year-old Kwara'ae children in Oceania act as caregivers of their younger siblings, but in the UK, it is an offense to leave a child under age 14 years without adult supervision. In the Efe community in Zaire, infants routinely use machetes with safety and some skill, although U.S. middle-class adults often do not trust young children with knives. What explains these marked differences in the capabilities of these children?

Until recently, traditional understandings of human development held that a child's development is universal and that children have characteristics and skills that develop independently of cultural processes. Barbara Rogoff argues, however, that human development must be understood as a cultural process, not simply a biological or psychological one. Individuals develop as members of a community, and their development can only be fully understood by examining the practices and circumstances of their communities.

The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are, 2nd Edition. Daniel Siegel, $59.50

This bestselling book put the field of interpersonal neurobiology on the map for many tens of thousands of readers. Daniel Siegel goes beyond the nature and nurture divisions that traditionally have constrained much of our thinking about development, exploring the role of interpersonal experiences in forging key connections in the brain. He presents a groundbreaking integrative framework for understanding the emergence of the growing, feeling, communicating mind. Illuminating how and why interpersonal neurobiology matters, this book is essential reading for clinicians, educators, researchers, and students interested in promoting healthy development and resilience across the lifespan. New to this edition:

• Incorporates significant scientific and technical advances
• Expanded discussions of cutting-edge topics, including neuroplasticity, epigenetics, mindfulness, and the neural correlates of consciousness
• Epilogue on domains of integration — specific pathways to well-being and therapeutic change
• Useful pedagogical features, such as diagrams and an extensive glossary

Evidence-Based Practice in the Early Childhood Field. Virginia Buysse & Patricia Wesley, Editors, $38.50

Evidence-Based Practice in the Early Childhood Field defines the evidence-based practice movement and explains how it is empowering professionals to deliver the most effective interventions available. The authors examine how evidence-based practice is changing the way research is conducted and how various sources of evidence can be applied to solve real-world problems and used to inform critical policy decisions.

From Birth to Five Years: Children’s Developmental Progress, 3rd Edition. Mary Sheridan, Ajay Sharma & Helen Cockerill, $21.95

The classic guide to the developmental progress of pre-school children, From Birth to Five Years is a valuable reference for professionals in health care, educational and social work settings.

Handbook of Attachment: Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications, 2nd Edition. Edited by Jude Cassidy & Phillip Shaver, $70.50

This comprehensive work is more than just the standard reference on attachment — it has become indispensable in the field. Coverage includes the origins and development of attachment theory; biological and evolutionary perspectives; and the role of attachment processes in personality, relationships, and mental health across the lifespan. The second edition has been substantially revised and expanded to incorporate significant recent advances in theory, research, and clinical applications.

Handbook of Self-Regulation: Research, Theory, and Applications. Edited by Roy Baumeister & Kathleen Vohs, $91.95

Bringing together a stellar array of self-regulation researchers, this comprehensive and authoritative handbook addresses the breadth of current theories, findings, and practical applications in the field. Examined are the conscious and non-conscious processes by which people regulate their thoughts, emotions, attention, impulses or appetites, and task performances; the developmental trajectories of these capacities; and implications for personal relationships, addictions, consumption, and mental health. The ways individuals differ in their basic abilities and styles of self-control are considered, as are strategies for enhancing functioning in this area. Offering cutting-edge coverage of a key dimension of human experience, the Handbook also identifies important questions for future investigation.

Home Visitor’s Guidebook: Promoting Optimal Parent & Child Development, 3rd Edition. Carol Klass, $49.50

The ultimate professional development resource for early interventionists, social workers, therapists, and other home visitors, this research-based guidebook is enhanced throughout with up-to-date references and new material on today's hot topics.

How Infants Know Minds. Vasudevi Reddy, $29.95

Most psychologists claim that we begin to develop a “theory of mind” — some basic ideas about other people’s minds — at age two or three, by inference, deduction, and logical reasoning.

But does this mean that small babies are unaware of minds? That they see other people simply as another (rather dynamic and noisy) kind of object? This is a common view in developmental psychology. Yet, as this book explains, there is compelling evidence that babies in the first year of life can tease, pretend, feel self-conscious, and joke with people. Using observations from infants’ everyday interactions with their families, Vasudevi Reddy argues that such early emotional engagements show infants’ growing awareness of other people’s attention, expectations, and intentions.

How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning and Languages Live or Die. David Crystal, $22.00

In this fascinating survey of everything from how sounds become speech to how names work, David Crystal answers every question you might ever have had about the nuts and bolts of language in his usual highly illuminating way. Along the way we find out about eyebrow flashes, whistling languages, how parents teach their children to speak, how politeness travels across languages and how the way we talk show not just how old we are but where we're from and even who we want to be.

Human Behavior, Learning, and the Developing Brain: Volume 1, Typical Development. Edited by Donna Coch, Kurt Fischer & Geraldine Dawson, $59.95

This state-of-the-science volume brings together leading authorities from multiple disciplines to examine the relationship between brain development and behavior in typically developing children. Chapters explore the complex interplay of neurobiological and environmental influences in the development of memory, language, reading, inhibitory control, and other core aspects of cognitive, emotional, and social functioning. Throughout, the volume gives particular attention to what the research reveals about ways to support all children's learning and healthy development.

Human Behavior, Learning, and the Developing Brain: Volume 2, Atypical Development. Edited by Donna Coch, Geraldine Dawson & Kurt W. Fischer, $59.95

Synthesizing the breadth of current knowledge on brain-behavior relationships in atypically developing children, this important volume integrates theories and data from multiple disciplines. Leading authorities present their latest research on specific clinical problems, including autism, Williams syndrome, learning and language disabilities, ADHD, and issues facing infants of diabetic mothers. In addition, the effects of social stress and maltreatment on brain development and behavior are thoroughly reviewed. Demonstrating the uses of cutting-edge methods from developmental neuroscience, developmental psychology, and cognitive science, the contributors emphasize the implications of their findings for real-world educational and clinical practices.

Is This a Phase? Child Development & Parent Strategies, Birth to 6 Years. Helen Neville, $29.95

This reassuring and practical guide explains what to expect at every developmental stage between birth and age 6. Pediatric nurse and parent educator Helen Neville walks parents and caregivers through three dozen topics common in the first six years of life. Accurate, reliable and authoritative, Is This a Phase looks at child development and temperament and how they affect the family.

Learning to Read the World: Language and Literacy in the First Three Years. Sharon Rosenkoetter & Joanne Knapp-Philo, editors, $45.95

Infants and toddlers typically learn to read the world by getting support and encouragement from parents and caregivers—the cherished adults who are an essential part of their day-to-day routines and interactions. Learning to Read the World draws on research from multiple fields to explore infant-toddler learning as it relates to beginning language and literacy. By including a multidisciplinary array of authors, Rosenkoetter and Knapp-Philo provide a broad understanding of how very young children move toward literacy and suggest ways that readers can encourage young children to delight in words, shapes, sounds, symbols, concepts, and other facets of language and literacy development.

The Long Shadow of Temperament. Jerome Kagan & Nancy Snidman, $24.95

In The Long Shadow of Temperament, Kagan and Nancy Snidman summarize the results of a unique inquiry into human temperaments, one of the best-known longitudinal studies in developmental psychology. In a masterly summary of their wide-ranging exploration, Kagan and Snidman demonstrate that while temperamental tendencies can be modified by experience, the shadow of temperament is permanently cast over psychological development.

Mind in the Making: the Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs. Ellen Galinsky, $19.50

There are hundreds of books that give parents advice on everything from weaning to toilet training, from discipline to nutrition. But in spite of this overwhelming amount of information, there is very little research-based advice for parents on how to raise their children to be well rounded and achieve their full potential, helping them learn to take on life's challenges, communicate well with others, and remain committed to learning. These are the "essential life skills" that Ellen Galinsky has spent her career pursuing, through her own studies and through decades of talking with more than a hundred of the most outstanding researchers in child development and neuroscience. The good news is that there are simple everyday things that all parents can do to build these skills in their children for today and for the future. They don't cost money, and it's never too late to begin.

Pathways to Competence for Young Children: a Parenting Program (Book and CD-ROM). Sarah Landy & Elizabeth Thompson, $63.95

With Pathways to Competence for Young Children: a Parenting Program, professionals can help parents understand and manage their child’s behavior and take an active role in guiding social-emotional development. Developed from Sarah Landy’s highly regarded child development book, Pathways to Competence, this manual-and-CD set shows how to set up, lead, and evaluate a parenting program for parents of children from birth to age 7. This one-of-a-kind program is:

• Proven effective. Field tested for 10 years with hundreds of parents, this program has proved highly successful in improving child behavior and enhancing parenting skills.
• Hands-on and practical. Professionals will learn how to lead group discussions, activities and exercises, and role-plays on key parenting challenges.
• Versatile. Materials can be used for a 10-, 15-, or 20-week parenting group, and professionals can tailor the program to suit their needs. The program is appropriate for a wide range of audiences, including parents with depression, teen mothers, and parents of children with behavior problems.

Everything professionals need to conduct a Pathways to Competence Parenting Group is included: more than 140 parent handouts (easy to print from the CD-ROM inside this book), instructions on structuring and leading sessions, problem-solving tips, and evaluation guidelines. With this engaging and effective program, parents will discover how to strengthen their relationships with their children and foster the healthy social-emotional development children need to manage life’s challenges.

The Philosophical Baby: What Children’s Minds Tell Us about Truth, Love and the Meaning of Life. Alison Gopnik, $19.00

For most of us, having a baby is the most profound, intense, and fascinating experience of our lives. Now scientists and philosophers are starting to appreciate babies, too. The last decade has witnessed a revolution in our understanding of infants and young children. Scientists used to believe that babies were irrational, and that their thinking and experience were limited. Recently, they have discovered that babies learn more, create more, care more, and experience more than we could ever have imagined. And there is good reason to believe that babies are actually smarter, more thoughtful, and even more conscious than adults.

Alison Gopnik — a leading psychologist and philosopher, as well as a mother — explains the groundbreaking new psychological, neuroscientific, and philosophical developments in our understanding of very young children, transforming our understanding of how babies see the world and in turn promoting a deeper appreciation for the role of parents.

Respecting Babies: a New Look at Magda Gerber’s RIE Approach. Ruth Anne Hammond, $28.95

Respecting Babies will help parents and caregivers provide support to babies and toddlers in a way that allows children to become confident explorers and learners. Focusing on the importance of building secure relationships, this book is an engaging and easy-to-read summary of the history and methods of care conceived by Magda Gerber, founder of the Resources for Educarers (RIS) Program.

Socioemotional Development in the Toddler Years: Transitions and Transformations. Edited by Celia Brownell & Claire Kopp, $64.95

This volume explores the key developmental transitions that take place as 1 to 3 year-olds leave infancy behind and begin to develop the social and emotional knowledge, skills, and regulatory abilities of early childhood. Leading investigators examine the multiple, interacting factors that lead to socioemotional competence in this pivotal period, covering both typical and atypical development.

Theories of Attachment: an Introduction to Bowlby, Ainsworth, Gerber, Brazelton, Kennell & Klaus. Carol Garhart Mooney, $28.95

Theories of Attachment provides a solid foundation for informed early childhood care and is a terrific resource for anyone working with young children. It thoroughly covers the background and research of the prominent minds of attachment theorists John Bowlby, Mary Ainsworth, Magda Gerber, John Kennell, Marshall Klaus, and T. Berry Brazelton — including the theory keystones of bonding, separation, and crying.

Theories of Infant Development. Gavin Bremner & Alan Slater, editors. $49.50

Theories of Infant Development provides an authoritative survey of the major theories of infant development including the theoretical issues. Written by leading scholars in the field of infancy, each chapter either presents a distinct theoretical approach to infant development or reviews contrasting theories in a specific subfield.

Understanding Early Childhood Mental Health: a Practical Guide for Professionals. Susan Janko Summers & Rachel Chazan-Cohen, $43.50

Integrating infant mental health services into early education programs leads to better child outcomes and stronger parent–child relationship.  The big question is how to do it appropriately and effectively. Clear answers are in this accessible textbook, created to prepare early childhood professionals and programs to weave best practices in mental health into their everyday work.

This introductory text is a primer on infant mental health, strengthening the reader's knowledge of key issues such as screening and assessment, attachment, emotional dysregulation and aggression, risk and resilience, maternal depression, and children's exposure to trauma. The book also includes practical, research-based guidance that can be used to recognize indicators of mental health problems in very young children, including emotional dysregulation and behavioral and developmental changes.

Understanding Newborn Behavior & Early Relationships: the Newborn Behavioral Observations (NBO) System Handbook. J. Kevin Nugent, Constance Keefer, Susan Minear, Lise Johnson, & Yvette Blanchard, $63.95

Giving babies a “voice” helps parents understand their baby’s unique strengths and needs. This observational tool and handbook, complete with beautiful four-color photographs by a Pulitzer prize-winning photographer, gives professionals a systematic way to help parents respond with confidence to their baby’s individual needs—and build positive parent-professional relationships in the process. Flexible, easy to integrate into everyday practice, and based on more than 25 years of research … this system is just what clinicians in hospital, clinic, or home settings need to help new mothers and fathers get to know their baby, increase their confidence and competence as parents, and support their child’s growth and development.