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.

Amazing Talents of the Newborn. Marshall Klaus & Phyllis Klaus, $21.95 DVD, 30 minutes

Unraveling the wonders and talents of the newborn, this fascinating DVD demonstrates the remarkable capabilities of babies in the first hours and days of life.

Babies in Mind: Understanding Your Baby’s Psychological Needs. Jenny Perkel, $25.50

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 Bond: the New Science Behind What’s Really Important When Caring for Your Baby. Linda Folden Palmer, $18.99

Meticulously researched, this authoritative and persuasive guide to attachment parenting reveals the many little-known advantages that only a responsive, nurturing parenting style can provide:

• Surprising evidence on the benefits of breastfeeding
• How attentiveness and touch impacts permanent brain development in infants
• Under-reported facts about how to reduce colic, food allergies, and illness
• Why sharing sleep is both safe and natural

This warmly presented book is a rare overview of information too often missing from parenting circles, pediatric offices, and financially motivated product promotions.

The Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age Two, Revised 2013. William Sears, Martha Sears, Robert Sears & James Sears, $23.99

 An encyclopedic guide to your baby’s development and care in the first two years, this popular baby care book provides comprehensive information on virtually every aspect of infant care. THE BABY BOOK is a rich and invaluable resource that will help you and your baby grow together.

The Baby Book: Pregnancy, Birth, Baby & Child Care from 0 to 3. $40.00

Take a new look at pregnancy and parenting topics, celebrate the joys of parenthood, and discover fascinating facts and practical advice in this beautifully illustrated guide to the first three years of life.

Baby Day-by-Day, Canadian Edition. Ilona Bendefy, Editor, $40.00

An unprecedented visual guide to caring for a baby during their first year of life, this unique chronological reference for new parents makes it easy for them to find the information they need for their child’s age. Fully adapted for Canada, with important information on postnatal testing, recommended doctor’s visits, applying for Health and Social Insurance cards as well as maternity rights and benefits, this useful resource provides an entry for every single day bringing together advice for all aspects of baby-care, from feeding and sleeping to weaning and play.

Baby Development: Everything You Need to Know. Claire Halsey, $16.95 (birth to 2)

Maximize your baby's physical, cognitive, and emotional potential — and have fun together — with this book full of easy and practical games and activities.

And Baby Makes Three: the Six-Step Plan for Preserving Marital Intimacy and Rekindling Romance after Baby Arrives. John Gottman & Julie Schwartz Gottman, $14.50

Having a baby is a joyous experience, but even the best relationships are strained during the transition from duo to trio. Lack of sleep, never-ending housework, and new fiscal concerns often lead to conflict, disappointment, and hurt feelings. John Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman have written AND BABY MAKES THREE to show partners how to avoid the pitfalls of parenthood. Complete with exercises and activities designed to help couples anticipate, confront and resolve conflicts, this encouraging guide helps new parents positively manage the relationship changes that come along with their bundle of joy.

Baby Meets World: a Journey Through Infancy. Nicholas Day, $29.99

As a new parent, Nicholas Day had some basic but confounding questions: Why does my son find the straitjacket of his swaddling blanket comforting and not terrifying? How can he never meet a developmental norm and still be OK? And when will he stop sucking my finger? So he went digging for answers. They were not what he expected.

Drawing on a wealth of perspectives — scientific, historical, cross-cultural, and personal — BABY MEETS WORLD is organized around the mundane activities that dominate the life of an infant: sucking, smiling, touching, toddling. From these everyday activities, Day weaves together an account that is anything but ordinary: a fresh, surprising story, both weird and wondrous, about our first experience of the world.

Part hidden history of parenthood, part secret lives of babies, BABY MEETS WORLD steps back from the moment-to-moment chaos of babydom. It allows readers to see infancy anew in all its strangeness and splendor.

The Baby Nurse Bible. Carole Kramer Arsenault, $18.95

THE BABY NURSE BIBLE is packed with the information that new parents want to know. From the first trimester through baby's first three months – this book offers a wealth of experience in an easily accessible format.

Baby Shiatsu: Gentle Touch to Help Your Baby Thrive. Karin Kalbantner Wernicke & Tina Haase, $19.95

Babies feel intuitively what scientists have needed painstaking research to establish: being touched and caressed is good for you. It makes you clever and cheerful, strengthens the parent-child bond, and lays the foundation for a healthy life.

With baby shiatsu you can support your child's development. The gentle pressure-point massage meets the needs of tiny babies. This book shows you the various shiatsu techniques step by step. There are also specific techniques to help with health problems, such as tummy ache, and difficulty in sleeping.

Baby Sign Language Basics Flash Cards. Monta Briant, $12.95

Talk and sign about the objects on the cards — just as you would with a picture book!

The Baby Signing Book, 2nd Edition. Sara Bingham, $24.95

This quick and comprehensive course in baby signing features a program that parents can customize according to their family’s needs. It offers age-specific advice, as well as ideas for working with children with communication delays, on how to teach sign language as your child grows and develops.

Baby Signs: How to Talk with Your Baby Before Your Baby Can Talk, Updated 3rd Edition. Linda Acredolo & Susan Goodwyn, $20.95

In 1982, child development experts Linda Acredolo and Susan Goodwyn discovered that babies can communicate with simple signs — even before they're able to talk. The result was Baby Signs. Now, with the widespread popularity of signing with hearing babies and new and exciting research findings to report, the authors have completely revised and expanded Baby Signs to create this indispensable new edition. Featuring an American Sign Language approach, as well as a set of “baby-friendly” alternatives, this comprehensive new program offers all the information any parent needs to join the hundreds of thousands of families around the world who are using Baby Signs to help their children communicate.

BabyBabyOhBaby: Bonding with Your Brilliant & Beautiful Baby through Infant Massage. $32.95 DVD 45 minutes

An entertaining and informative DVD that introduces parents to infant massage, BabyBabyOhBaby provides a step-by-step guide to the techniques, joys and benefits of massaging your newborn.

Babycare: Everything You Need to Know. Ann Peters, $16.95

If your baby came with an instruction manual, this would be it! Concise, practical, clearly illustrated and extensive, this book covers the core skills you will need from the moment your baby is born right up to the first birthday.

Babycare Week by Week: the First Six Months. Alison Mackonochie, $32.95

The first six months of your baby’s life can be truly daunting and learning to be a new parent can be as — or more — difficult than learning to take care of your new baby. This beautifully illustrated week-by-week guide gives you the support you need during these early months and sets you off on the road to confident parenting.

Baby's First Skills: Help Your Baby Learn through Creative Play, 2nd Edition. Miriam Stoppard, $16.95

48 fun activities to enjoy with your child and help you follow your baby's progress from milestone to milestone during the first year.

Babyproofing Your Marriage: How to Laugh More and Argue Less As Your Family Grows. Stacie Cockrell, Cathy O'Neill & Julia Stone, $16.25

Babyproofing Your Marriage is the warts-and-all truth about how having children can affect your relationship. The authors' evenhanded approach to both sides of the marital equation allows partners to understand each other in a whole new way. With humor, compassion, and practical advice, the Babyproofers will guide first-time parents and veterans alike around the rocky shores of the early parenting years.

The Babysense Secret: Learn to Understand Your Baby’s Moods for Happy Days and Peaceful Nights. Megan Faure, $17.95

The secret to your baby’s contentment is in understanding your baby’s sensory world. Learning how to read your baby’s signals makes life as a new parents so much easier!

Becoming the Parent You Want to Be: a Sourcebook of Strategies for the First Five Years. Laura Davis & Janis Keyser, $25.95

One of our favourite books on parenting young children! Respectful, informative and inspiring, Becoming the Parent You Want to Be is full of practical insights into children and into our own journey as parents. This is a practical book that covers so much ground, you'll want to read it many times over.

The Better Way to Care for Your Baby. Robin Elise Weiss, $22.95

A week-by-week illustrated companion to parenting and protecting your child using the latest and safest techniques.

The Biting Solution: the Expert’s No-Biting Guide for Parents, Caregivers, and Early Childhood Educators. Lisa Poelle, $15.95

Biting doesn’t have to cause crises. With THE BITING SOLUTION you can identify why kids bite, and teach them more effective ways to express themselves and to get along with others.

Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five. John Medina, $17.50

What's the single most important thing you can do during pregnancy? What does watching TV do to a child's brain? What's the best way to handle temper tantrums?

In his New York Times bestseller BRAIN RULES, Dr. John Medina showed us how our brains really work — and why we ought to redesign our workplaces and schools. Now, in BRAIN RULES FOR BABY, he shares what the latest science says about how to raise smart and happy children. This book is destined to revolutionize parenting.

BRAIN RULES FOR BABY bridges the gap between what scientists know and what parents practice. Through fascinating and funny stories, Medina, a developmental molecular biologist and dad, unravels how a child's brain develops — and what you can do to optimize it.

Canada’s Baby Care Book: a Complete Guide from Birth to 12 Months Old. The Hospital for Sick Children, Jeremy Friedman & Norman Saunders, $34.95

Written by leading experts at the world renowned Hospital for Sick Children, Canada’s Baby Care Book offers current, practical information on everything from what to expect in the delivery room and immediate postpartum to home safety and child health care. With 150 beautiful full-colour photographs to complement the text and illustrate additional instructions and information, this convenient and comprehensive book will help new parents make the right choices for their family.

The Canadian Paediatric Society Guide to Caring for Your Child from Birth to Age Five. Diane Sacks, Editor, $29.99

This extensive guide empowers parents to make informed decisions about their child’s well-being by laying out the information in an engaging and informative way. Emphasis is placed on health, development, injury prevention and nutrition.

Organized into age-specific sections, the book features a modular format that allows parents or caregivers to jump in and out with just the information they need. This type of easy-to-apply advice will make this a “go to” resource for generations to come.

Colic Solved: the Essential Guide to Infant Reflux and the Care of Your Crying, Difficult to Soothe Baby. Bryan Vartabedian, $17.95

This practical guide provides real solutions to a problem that has been upsetting babies — and parents — for years.

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.

Entertaining and Educating Young Children. Caroline Young, $16.95

This easy-to-use guide is filled with activities and play ideas for every stage of a child's development up to the age of five. It covers a wide range of topics including painting and drawing, music, make-believe, books and stories, letters and numbers, food and cooking and active play. Each topic includes parenting advice and tips to help make the activities successful and Internet links to useful websites and downloadable pictures, flashcards as well as simple online activities.

The Everything® Father’s First Year Book, 2nd Edition. Vincent Iannelli, $17.99

A survival guide for the first 12 months of being a dad, this helpful resource will give you the parenting skills you’ll need to become the father you want to be in no time.

The Everything® Guide to Raising a Toddler. Ellen Bowers, $17.99

All the guidance you need to raise a happy, healthy and confident toddler.

The Everything® Mother's First Year Book. Robin Elise Weiss, $17.95

The Everything® Mother's First Year Book is the invaluable resource you need to prepare for this life-changing event … This all-in-one guide helps you step into your role as mom as seamlessly as possible. Includes advice on:

• Getting through those first frantic days (and nights)
• Caring for baby and family as a whole, at the same time
• Dealing with mood swings and depression
• Returning to work outside the home
• Recovering your sense of self

The Everything® Toddler Activities Book: Games and Projects that Entertain and Educate. Jodi Levine, $16.50

It isn’t always easy keeping a toddler busy and happy. On top of that, many parents wonder if they are stimulating their child’s developmental potential. In The Everything® Toddler Activities Book parents will find hundreds of indoor and outdoor, fun and easy activities designed to keep toddlers engaged as they advance their cognitive, social, language and physical growth.

50 Fantastic Things to Do with Babies. Sally & Phil Featherstone, $18.95

50 Fantastic Things to Do with Toddlers. Sally & Phil Featherstone, $18.95

50 Fantastic Things to Do with Preschoolers. Sally & Phil Featherstone, $18.95

Full of fun and simple activities, this collection of purposeful play experiences will help young children develop key skills at their own pace as they explore the world around them.

50 Things to Do With Your Baby: 0-6 Months. Usborne Parents' Cards, $11.95

50 Things to Do With Your Baby: 6-12 Months. Usborne Parents' Cards, $11.95

50 Things to Do With Your Baby: 12+ Months. Usborne Parents' Cards, $11.95

50 Things to Do With Your Toddler. Usborne Parents' Cards, $11.95

50 Things to Do With Your 3-Year-Old. Usborne Parents' Cards, $11.95

These clever card sets offer ideas for games, songs, action rhymes and other fun things to do with young babies, toddlers and preschoolers. An inspiring source of inexpensive ideas that help babies and young children learn new skills, find out about the world around them and, most importantly, have fun. With internet links to websites with more play activities and parenting information.

The First 1000 Days: a Baby Journal. Nikki McClure, $14.95

This simple, beautiful journal is place to record your baby’s firsts, your discoveries about your child, and your wishes and dreams for the future.

First Time Parents: What Every New Parent Needs to Know, Revised Edition. Miriam Stoppard, $16.95

Practical information and support for parents during their baby’s first year from leading babycare expert Dr. Miriam Stoppard. Beautifully illustrated with diverse photos, First Time Parents also includes information and advice for single parents, step-families and parents of children born with special needs.

First Year Baby Care: an Illustrated Step-by-Step Guide. Paula Kelly, $13.99

Babies don't come with instructions – but this is the next best thing. Full of essential, easy-to-follow information on the basics of baby care from bathing, feeding and diapering your baby to vaccinations, day care and travelling with baby, this book is a highly accessible and simple guide for new parents.

First Year Milestones: a Monthly Guide to Your Baby's Growth. InJoy Videos, $74.99 (2 Volume DVD Set; 25 minutes per volume) Note: InJoy DVDs are for Home Use Only; and for sale only within Canada. All other users can contact Parentbooks for more information

Using the popular context of monthly milestones, this video follows eight babies over time to teach viewers what to expect from a baby in the first year of life. By showing each baby’s progress from month to month, educators can help parents, staff, and students gain a more comprehensive understanding of infant growth and development.

• Volume 1: Birth to 6 Months
  Weaving together the milestones of the first six months with crucial parenting information, this volume follows four babies as they grow from sleepy newborns to babies who are sitting up and engaging with the world. Divided into two convenient 15-minute sections (Birth-3 Months and 3-6 Months).


• Volume 2: 6 to 12 Months
  From a grabbing, babbling infant to the first words and steps of a budding toddler, this volume features four babies as they develop more complex abilities, especially when free to explore a safe environment. Divided into two, user-friendly, 15-minute sections (6-9 Months and 9-12 Months).

The Happiest Baby on the Block. Harvey Karp, Book $18.00; DVD $30.98 (72 minutes)

Do you learn better by watching rather than reading? Here is a chance to see how to transport your baby from screaming into serenity...in minutes. Watch as, step-by-step, Dr. Karp teaches new parents how to switch on their baby's powerful calming reflex.

The Happiest Baby on the Block Super-Soothing Sleep Sounds CD. Harvey Karp, $15.95

This CD has 6 specially engineered sound tracks that calm fussy babies fast and encourages restful sleep. You'll be amazed how well it soothes. It even protects sleep during teething, colds and trips away from home. The tracks on the CD can be repeated for hours, to help your baby settle into a deep level of relaxation.

The Happiest Toddler on the Block, Revised Edition. Harvey Karp, $17.00; DVD $30.98

The new way to stop the daily battle of wills and raise a secure and well-behaved one- to four-year-old. Dr. Karp reveals that toddlers should be thought of not as pint-size people but as pint-size...cavemen. Learn to speak to them in their own "primitive language" to soothe stormy outbursts.

The Happiest Toddler DVD is the perfect companion to the book … The DVD contains a bonus chapter of an additional hour of Dr. Karp demonstrating his effective techniques and helpful questions and answers from parents of toddlers.

Heading Home with Your Newborn: from Birth to Reality, 2nd Edition. Laura Jana & Jennifer Shu, $17.95

Heading Home with Your Newborn has everything new parents need to prepare for the first few months of their infant's life. Written by two pediatricians who are also parents, the book includes information on appearance, health, feeding, sleeping, changing, dressing, traveling, sickness, and more. Drs. Shu and Jana eliminate the feelings of anxiety, guilt, and inadequacy that inevitably plague first-time parents home alone with a newborn, and show parents how to enjoy this special time.

Help! My Toddler Came Without Instructions. Blythe Lipman, $17.50

Advice, tips, and sanity-saving solutions to help parents go from stressed-out and exhausted to meltdown-free and mellow.

The Holistic Baby Guide: Alternative Care for Common Health Problems. Randall Neustaedter, $22.95

This comprehensive handbook is filled with safe and effective holistic treatments for colds, digestive problems, allergies, asthma, and other health issues babies and toddlers commonly experience in their first years of life. An invaluable reference that belongs on every parent's bookshelf, The Holistic Baby Guide offers simple and natural remedies for treating the symptoms of common ailments. It also provides a fully integrated plan for building your baby's immune system to prevent chronic medical problems and ensure your baby's good health.

The Honest Toddler: a Parent’s Guide to Parenting. Bunmi Laditan, $23.99

An irreverent, laugh-out-loud funny parenting guide from The Honest Toddler, the internet’s most infamous tot, whose unchecked sense of entitlement and undeniable charm have captivated hundreds of thousands of fans online. THE HONEST TODDLER provides an indispensable manual to parenting that places the toddler’s happiness front and center. Outrageously confident and sweetly indignant, THE HONEST TODDLER is a parenting book like no other, one that will leave moms and dads laughing, and maybe crying, as they recognize their own child in the ongoing shenanigans of one bravely honest toddler.

How to Have Your Second Child First: 100 Things That Are Good to Know… the First Time Around. Kerry Colburn & Rob Sorensen, $22.95

Clever tips, time-savers, smart advice, and empathetic wisdom from parents who have learned the ropes through trial and error. Here is everything experienced parents wish they had known… the first time around.

It's a Baby Boy! The Unique Wonders and Special Nature of Your Son From Pregnancy to Two Years. The Gurian Institute, Stacie Bering, Adie Goldberg, $15.95

It's a Baby Girl! The Unique Wonder and Special Nature of Your Daughter From Pregnancy to Two Years. The Gurian Institute, Stacie Bering, Adie Goldberg, $15.95

Practical science based tips and guidelines and stories for parents, including:

• The very different health issues, neurological and biological development of boys and girls

• How to understand the core nature of your child and nourish it through problems of crying, fussing, eating, sleeping, attaching and other key issues during the first 12 months of life

• Warm hearted stories and tips from real moms, and a preview of what's to come as your child becomes a toddler, preschooler, and beyond

Kiss Me! How to Raise Your Children with Love. Carlos González, $17.95

KISS ME is a book written in defense of children. Dr. Carlos González — renowned paediatrician and author of My Child Won't Eat! — advocates raising children based on love, respect and freedom.

González believes that children are good, selfless, generous, honest, sociable and understanding and deserve all the love we can give them. A bestseller in Spain, now published for the first time in English, this compassionate book offers a guide to ethical parenting. Chapters include:

• Why children are the way they are
• Your child is a good person
• A few myths regarding sleep
• Rewards and punishment
• Quality time

The Lesbian Parenting Book: a Guide to Creating Families and Raising Children, Second Edition. D. Merilee Clunis and G. Dorsey Green, $24.50

The Lesbian Parenting Book has been updated to reflect the contemporary cultural and political landscape, as well as current trends in parenting. This practical and extensive guide covers topics from how to get pregnant to coping with today's teens.

Lullaby Massage: Rhyme & Touch Massage for Infants and Children. Sybil Hart, $17.95

Rhyme & Touch Massage is a new massage technique developed especially for infants and children. Massage strokes for each part of the body are matched with fun rhyming verses. The soothing words of the rhymes and the strokes encourage relaxation and trust, and gradually enable children to drift peacefully to sleep. A downloaded MP3 file of the verses makes them easy to learn. The book includes the verses and instructions on how to do each massage stroke. Children of all ages love being massaged and now bedtime will become a treat for everyone in the family.

Massaging Your Baby: the Joy of Touch Time. Elaine Fogel Schneider, $19.95

Effective techniques for a healthier, happier, more relaxed child (and parent!)

Mayo Clinic Guide to Your Baby's First Year. $22.95

This trusted resource is full of detailed information on everything parent's need to know about their baby — and about caring for their baby — in the first year of life.

Mommy Rescue Guide: Baby’s First Year. Tekla Nee, $13.95

Practical techniques and advice to help you manage this fun, confusing, exhausting and frantic time!

The Mother of All Baby Books: an All-Canadian Guide to Your Baby’s First Year, 2nd Edition. Ann Douglas, $26.95

THE MOTHER OF ALL BABY BOOKS is the instruction manual that Mother Nature forgot to include with the new arrival — a hands-on guide to coping with the joys and challenges of caring for your new baby. It's a totally comprehensive guide that features a non-bossy, fresh, and fun approach to Baby's exciting first year.

• Features a directory of Canadian organizations for new parents
• Includes a list of Internet resources of interest to Canadian parents
• Provides immunization schedules, baby growth charts, and more

Based on the best advice from over 150 Canadian parents and a panel of experts, THE MOTHER OF ALL BABY BOOKS is the ultimate guide to bringing up your baby in the Great White North.

A Natural Guide to Bringing Up Your Baby. Claire Gilman, $23.95

This practical guide covers every aspect of bringing up your baby and toddler in a kinder, healthier environment. From breast feeding to weaning, bonding, sleep, a healthy home and natural therapies, you will discover lots of practical, inexpensive ideas for greener living.

Newborn Care: a Guide to the First Six Weeks DVD. InJoy Videos, $49.99 (32 minutes) Note: InJoy DVDs are for Home Use Only; and for sale only within Canada. All other users can contact Parentbooks for more information

Newborn Care: a Guide to the First Six Weeks teaches parents the ins and outs of comforting, diapering, feeding, and understanding babies. This warm and humorous video provides parents with the knowledge and confidence they need to establish a positive bond with their newborn. Topics include:

• Newborn Appearances (including senses and brain development)
• Comfort Techniques, Baby Cues, and Crying (including colic and Shaken Baby Syndrome)
• Eating and Sleeping (including breastfeeding, formula feeding, and new SIDS recommendations)
• Diapering and Cleaning (including cord and circumcision care)
• Health and Safety (including physical exams, signs of sickness and dehydration, and parent health)

The No-Cry Separation Anxiety Solution. Elizabeth Pantley, $19.95

Gentle ways to make good-bye easy, from six months to six years.

Nurturing Touch: Instruction in the Art of Infant Massage. Kalena Babeshoff & Juliana Dellinger-Bavolek. Booklet, $7.95; DVD, $32.95

Nurturing Touch teaches parents and caregivers how to use gentle massage with their children, providing the groundwork for a lifetime of nurturing. The booklet is well illustrated and gives clear instructions on technique and on working with infants. The DVD is a great teaching tool for parents and professionals alike.

125 Brain Games for Babies. Jackie Silberg, $20.95

Updated to reflect the latest research about how children learn, 125 BRAIN GAMES FOR BABIES is a fun-filled collection of ways to develop the brain capacity of infants. Included are everyday opportunities to nurture brain development in the critical period from birth through twelve months. Each game and sensory experience presented includes an annotation on the latest brain research and how the activity promotes brain power in babies. 

125 Brain Games for Toddlers and Twos. Jackie Silberg, $20.95

A young child's brain grows at a phenomenal rate in the first years of life. Revised and updated to reflect the latest research on how children learn, 125 BRAIN GAMES FOR TODDLERS AND TWOS is packed with everyday opportunities to contribute to brain development. Each game is accompanied by an annotation on the latest brain research and how the activity promotes brain power in the critical period between twelve and thirty-six months.

One Year to an Organized Life with Baby. Regina Leeds, $19.95

From pregnancy to parenthood, this week-by-week guide to getting ready for baby and keeping your family organized will help you to eliminate stress from your daily routine so you can fully enjoy the changing landscape of your life — and your newest family member.

Playskool Guide to the Toddler Years. Rebecca Rutledge, $19.95

From spending time together playing and learning to temper tantrums, Playskool Guide to the Toddler Years offers practical advice to help parents fully enjoy your toddler’s wonder years.

Playskool Toddler’s Busy Play Book. Robin McClure, $19.95

Over 500 creative games, activities, crafts and recipes for your very busy toddler.

Positive Discipline: the First Three Years. Jane Nelsen, Cheryl Erwin & Roslyn Ann Duffy, $21.99

The months leading up to the birth of a child are filed with joy, dreams, plans—and a few worries. As a caring parent, you want to start your child out in life on the proper foundation. Positive Discipline: the First Three Years offers a commonsense approach to child-rearing. You'll learn how to use kind but firm support to raise a child who is both capable and confident.

The Safe Baby: a Do-It-Yourself Guide to Home Safety and Healthy Living. Debra Smiley Holtzman, $19.95

This comprehensive, readable book tells you how to make your home and environment safe for kids. This expanded, revised edition includes:

• Latest up-to-date-information on baby safety
• How to select safer toys
• Expanded section on selecting green products
• Tips on choosing the safest fish to eat
• How to buy safe baby care supplies

Thought-provoking and controversial, this book offers practical parenting techniques for parents at each age and stage of their baby's development to ensure that their child is psychologically well adjusted and emotionally healthy.

The Science of Parenting represents the cutting edge of scientific research in the fields of neuroscience and child development. Readers will discover how touch, laughter and play build emotional wellbeing for life, and strategies for effectively dealing with temper tantrums and tears, sleep problems, fears and much more.

• An easy to read, practical book, providing step-by-step guidance on how to react in every-day parenting situations
• Addresses the most popular and commonly recommended child-rearing techniques, endorsing some and challenging others
• An un-patronizing, refreshing alternative in child rearing philosophy

The Scientist in the Crib: Minds, Brains, and How Children Learn.  Alison Gopnik, Andrew Meltzoff & Patricia Kuhl, $16.25

This exciting book discusses how much babies and young children know and learn, and how much parents naturally teach them. It argues that evolution designed us both to teach and learn, and that the drive to learn is our most important instinct. It also reveals as fascinating insights about our adult capacities and how even young children use some of the same methods that allow scientists to learn so much about the world. Filled with surprise at every turn, this vivid, lucid, and often funny book gives us a new view of the inner life of children and the mysteries of the mind.

Show Dad How. Shawn Bean, $16.95

From practical to playful, 156 awesome things every new father needs to know — one clearly illustrated step at a time.

Show Mom How. Sarah Hines Stephens, $16.95

From sensible and practical to sweet and downright silly, 166 things every new mother needs to know, one — clearly illustrated — step at a time.

Sign Language for Babies and Toddlers. Christopher Brown & John Clements, $12.95

A reader-friendly, practical guide to developing sign language skills using vocabulary from a child’s world.

Sign, Sing and Play: Fun Signing Activities for You and Your Baby. Monta Briant, $11.95

When it comes to signing with babies, the secret to success is to make signing fun! Whether it’s time for a story, a diaper change, or a ride in the car, parents will find dozens of ideas for including signing in ways that motivate baby to sign back quickly and keep signing exciting for parent and child.

Signing Smart with Babies and Toddlers: a Parent's Strategy and Activity Guide. Michelle Anthony & Reyna Lindert, $22.95

Babies can communicate with their hands long before they can speak. Using American Sign Language (ASL), Dr. Michelle Anthony and Dr. Reyna Lindert have created the simple and successful Signing Smart system to teach parents how to integrate signing into everyday life with their hearing children. Through the more than seventy activities presented in this book, parents will learn the tools and strategies they need to understand how to introduce signing and build their child's sign and word vocabulary.

A Simple Gift: Comforting Your Baby. Infant Mental Health Promotion Project, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto. (10 minutes) VHS $30.00; DVD $45.00

This practical and inviting video presentation addresses the importance of the attachment relationship with parents in the first year of life. Based on attachment theory and current research it suggests ways parents can respond to infants and does so in a clear manner, appropriate for parents and caregivers from many cultures.

Also available: A Simple Gift: Comforting Your Baby: a Guide for Professionals. Infant Mental Health Promotion Project, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto. $8.50

A Simple Gift: Ending the Cycle of Hurt. Infant Mental Health Promotion (IMP), Hospital for Sick Children. (15 minutes) DVD format $45.00; VHS format $30.00; Parent Guide $8.50; Guide for Professionals $8.50

IMP has developed a sequel to its A Simple Gift series of videos and guides. This new resource highlights caregiver behaviours that can be frightening to young children and may be linked to disorganized attachment and future behaviour problems.

To help parents recognize and prevent interactions with their children that may be harmful, the video demonstrates simple examples of the behaviours with explanations of why they can frighten children. As well, more positive ways to interact with children are suggested. A Simple Gift: Ending the Cycle of Hurt is suitable for parents from many cultures and family backgrounds.

A Simple Gift: Helping Young Children Cope With Emotions. Infant Mental Health Promotion Project, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto. (17 minutes) VHS $30.00; DVD $45.00

This videotape suggests how parents can help young children understand their difficult feelings — anger, sadness, fear, jealousy — and express them in ways that are socially acceptable. Guides for parents and professionals also available, $8.50 each.

Slow and Steady Parenting: Active Child-Raising for the Long Haul. Catherine Sanderson, $20.95

Avoiding the Short-Term Solutions That Lead to Long-Term Problems is what this gentle, practical and very thoughtful work offers parents. Following the quick fix solutions that many parents find themselves looking may not be the way to raise well-adjusted kids. Dr. Catherine A. Sanderson explains that the road to successful parenting is slow and steady. Filled with important lessons and helpful advice in everyday situations, this book demonstrates how to decrease parent-child struggles and how to enhance a child's emotional, psychological and physical well-being.

Smart Medicine for a Healthier Child: a Practical A-to-Z Reference to Natural and Conventional Treatments for Infants and Children. Janet Zand et al, $27.50

Written by a naturopathic physician, a medical doctor, and a pediatric nurse, this unique book gives parents easy access to current information and advice regarding their children's health and acts as a bridge between time-honored healing systems and mainstream medicine.

Stop Second-Guessing Yourself: the Toddler Years. Jen Singer, $19.95

Down-to-earth, advice and encouragement on everything from bedtime and naps to getting out of the house in one piece — this is a field guide to confident parenting that will keep you going, even on the toughest toddler days.

Also available: Stop Second-Guessing Yourself: Baby's First Year. Jen Singer, $18.95

The Tao of Poop: Keeping Your Sanity (and Your Soul) While Raising a Baby. Vivian Elisabeth Glyck, $12.50

Learn to approach mothering as a spiritual practice and you’ll find the hard aspects to be the most valuable parts—even when the little Bundle of Joy wakes up nine times in a night. Vivian Glyck examines ten valuable life lessons that arise amid all the challenges of parenting. In each of the short chapters she takes on a common parenting predicament and finds a lesson that can be drawn from it. The Tao of Poop will be a comfort and consolation to any woman who finds herself riding the learning curve of being a mom.

Trusted Advice: You and Your Toddler. Miriam Stoppard, $10.95

A practical guide to everyday care — from dealing with tantrums to guidelines on sleep, bathing and poty training.

Trusted Advice: Your New Baby. Miriam Stoppard, $10.95

An illustrated, practical guide to taking care of your baby during the first six months.

The 24/7 Baby Doctor. Victoria Rogers McEvoy, $18.95

A Harvard pediatrician answers all your questions from birth to one year.

What to Expect the Second Year: From 12 to 24 Months. Heidi Murkoff, with Sharon Mazel, $18.95

From the first birthday to the second, this book guides you in everything you need to know about caring for, nurturing, understanding and keeping up with your toddler.

Also available: What to Expect the First Year, 2nd Edition. Arlene Eisenberg et al, $21.50

Why Is My Baby Crying? The Parent's Survival Guide for Coping with Crying Problems and Colic. Barry Lester & Catherine O'Neill Grace, $15.95

Each year, of the approximately four million babies born, 800,000 suffer from colic: excessive crying that causes extreme distress to parents and children. In this informative and accessible guide, renowned colic expert Barry M. Lester explores the science of colic and its long-lasting effects on the physical and emotional health of the child and family. He provides simple, proven strategies and detailed clinical suggestions for alleviating the array of symptoms associated with crying problems. With sympathy and candor, Dr. Lester gives encouragement, support, and hope to moms and dads as they navigate this first crisis in the parent-child relationship.

Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain. Sue Gerhardt, $19.95

Why Love Matters explains why love is essential to brain development in the early years of life and how early interactions between babies and their parents have lasting and serious consequences … invaluable reading for parents and professionals alike.

The Wiggle & Giggle Busy Book: 365 Fun, Physical Activities for Toddlers & Preschoolers. Trish Kuffner, $11.95

The Preschooler’s Busy Book: 365 Creative Learning Games and Activities to Keep Your 3 to 6 Year Old Busy. Trish Kuffner, $11.95

These Busy Books by Trish Kuffner are packed with creative, fun, simple activities to keep toddlers and preschoolers busy. Terrific alternatives to watching TV or playing video games, the books show parents and care providers how to encourage physical, emotional and cognitive growth and stimulate a child’s natural curiosity.

The Wonder of You: a Book for Celebrating Baby’s First Year. Nancy Tillman, $21.95

This is the perfect gift to welcome the little ones in your life. The Wonder of You celebrates milestones and creates memories in this exquisite and fully inclusive baby book.

The Wonder Years. American Academy of Pediatrics, edited by Tanya Remer Altmann, $17.50

The first five years of a child’s life are filled with major developmental and behavioral milestones. During this period your infant becomes an individual who has mastered a range of skills — from walking to making conversation–that prepares him or her to enter the world beyond home and family. For parents, this wondrous time provides an opportunity to help children fulfill their potential. The Wonder Years shows you how to make the most of it.

You Are Your Child’s First Teacher: Encouraging Your Child's Natural Development from Birth to Age Six, 3rd Edition. Rahima Baldwin Dancy, $20.99

Some of the most important learning years happen before your child reaches school. From language and cognitive development, to appropriate toys and nourishing your child’s creativity, this classic book speaks for a rational approach to child-rearing — one that helps children to be children.

Your Baby is Speaking to You. Kevin Nugent, photography by Abelardo Morell, $22.95

A visual guide to the amazing behaviors of your newborn and growing baby.

Your Babycare Bible: Your Complete Guide to the Baby and Toddler Years. Harold Raucher, Editor, $22.95

YOUR BABYCARE BIBLE is a thorough, beautifully illustrated guide to childrearing from birth the three. Current, informative, accessible and wide-ranging, this book gives you the information you need on:

• Sleep secrets and crying solutions
• Feeding strategies — from starting breastfeeding to introducing solids
• Health and safety advice
• Child development month-by-month
• Bonding, play, parenting styles and much more …

Your Toddler Month by Month: Your Essential Guide to the First Four Years. Tanya Byron, $21.95

With a child-centered approach, Dr. Tanya Byron looks at the developmental milestones a child experiences during these exciting toddler years.