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The Baby Bump: Twins and Triplets
Edition. Carly Roney, $27.95
100's of secrets for those nine long months
with multiples on board! |
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The Baby Sleep
Solution: a Proven Program to Teach Your Baby to Sleep Twelve Hours
a Night. Suzy Giordano & Lisa Abidin, $22.00
Using the tried and true techniques of
behavior modification and sleep training, Suzy Giordano has earned
reputation as “The Baby Coach,” helping families get a better night’s
sleep. This is one of the few sleep books that pays attention to
the particular needs of parents with multiples. Herself the mother
of five children, including a set of twins, Giordano has worked
with families of singletons, twins, triplets and quadruplets. |
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Dad's Guide to Twins: How to Survive the Twin
Pregnancy and Prepare for Your Twins. Joe Rawlinson, $18.95
When you find out that you are expecting twins, you are
in total shock. Your mind races with a million questions and you start to
stress out about what to do to get ready. This guide will help you be prepared
and ready to tackle life the next several months without having to wade through
a lengthy book you don't have time to read. It is perfect for the expectant twin
dad whether your twins are your first and second children or ninth and tenth. |
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Double
Duty: the Parents’ Guide
to Raising Twins from Pregnancy through the School Years, 2nd
Edition. Christina Baglivi Tinglof, $22.95
The classic guide — now updated and
revised — provides
parents with practical tips and strategies for the everyday challenges
of parenting twins. |
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Double Time: How I Survived — and
Mostly Thrived — through the First Three Years of Mothering Twins. Jane Roper, $26.99
Jane Roper never expected she’d have
twins — or that they’d be such a spirited twosome. She didn’t expect that
finding the right balance of work and home would be so tricky. And she
certainly didn’t expect to grapple with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder during
her daughters’ toddler years. But she also didn’t anticipate how much joy,
laughter, and self-discovery motherhood would bring.
Full of warmth, honesty, occasional
advice, and a generous helping of humor, DOUBLE TIME is a smart and engaging
account of the first three years with multiples, and a refreshingly candid and
vulnerable look at clinical depression. |
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Double Trouble for Anna Hibiscus! Atinuke,
illustrated by Lauren Tobia, $22.50 (ages 3-7)
Anna Hibiscus wakes up one morning to discover the bump
in her mother's belly was not one — but two new baby brothers! It’s going to be
a big adjustment for everyone, especially Anna Hibiscus. Luckily, her family
knows that while two babies mean double the trouble, it also means double the
love. |
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The Early Birds: a Mother’s Story of
Our Times. Jenny Minton, $17.95
In the winter of 2002, Jenny Minton
delivered twin boys. She was thirty-one weeks pregnant, and her boys, conceived
through in vitro fertilization, were more than two months early. Both boys were
placed on immediate life support, and for sixty-four days they hovered,
critically ill, in the neonatal intensive care unit of a New York City
hospital. With impeccable restraint, in sharp, unforgettable scenes, Minton
takes readers into the heart of an experience that is both singular and — with a
significant increase in twin births over the last twenty years, and a
commensurate rise in premature births — increasingly common. She offers moving
interrogations of science and fate, and the role of providence in
conception. THE EARLY BIRDS describes the glorious triumphs of ordinary
life, even as it wrestles with the unanswerable questions that remain. |
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Emotionally
Healthy Twins: a New Philosophy for Parenting Two Unique Children.
Joan Friedman, $20.99
From pregnancy through young adulthood,
parenting multiples offers unique challenges. This book helps parents
to foster their children’s individual strengths while helping them
to cherish their unique sibling bonds. |
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Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Twins: a
Step-by-Step Program for Sleep Training Your Multiples. Marc Weissbluth, $16.50
Sleep-training multiples presents a
unique set of challenges. This invaluable guide will not only get your babies
to sleep through the night but help you stay healthy and rested so you can
enjoy the many blessings of having more than one!
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I'm Having Twins! Paris Morris, $20.75 (ages 3-6)
I’m Having Twins is about a 3-year old girl named
Paris who comes to terms with her parents adding twin siblings to their family
mix. The book takes Paris through the trials and tribulations of a twin
pregnancy from the big sister’s perspective and shows her how they are really
hers, too, easing her transition to being a sibling. |
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It Gets Easier: Surviving Twins During Their First
Year. Tracey Egan, $19.95
No one prepares parents for the moment when they leave
hospital, but what about when they have not just one, but TWO newborn babies?
Drawing on her own personal experience as a mother of twins, It Gets Easier is
a comprehensive guide to preparing for the arrival of twins and all the
decisions that must be made after the birth.
It Gets Easier contains detailed guidance on
everything that parents need to know, from changing nappies and understanding
your babies’ cries (are they hungry, is it wind or colic?) to knowing the
milestones that your babies will reach in their first year (teething, sitting
up alone, eating solid food and eventually, crawling). Packed with plenty of
handy tips and advice, It Gets Easier provides the guidance and
reassurance that all parents desperately need until it, does, get easier. |
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It's Twins! Now What? Tips, Advice and Real-Life
Experience to Help You from Pregnancy through to Your Babies' First Year. Jessica Bomford, $18.95
Whether twins are a delightful surprise or a bolt from
the blue, one thing is certain — your life will never be the same again. Packed
with tips and anecdotes from parents of twins, as well as advice from
professionals, this go-to guide will help you prepare for, survive and enjoy
your first year with twins. |
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It's Twins! Parent-to-Parent Advice from
Infancy to Adolescence. Susan Heim, $21.95
Raising any child is a challenge, but
what happens when they come as a pair? In this complete guide to raising
multiples from infancy through the high-school years, Susan Heim offers the
insight and advice that only a mother of multiples can give. IT'S TWINS! arms
parents with the information they need, from decisions about breast-feeding
versus formula and classroom placement, to dispelling myths about twins and
ensuring equal treatment while fostering individuality and combating
competitiveness. Best of all, IT'S TWINS! outdoes all those "dry"
parenting manuals by offering chatty, bite-size bits of real-world wisdom and
experiences from other moms and dads at various stages of twin-rearing, making
this guide not just informative but entertaining as well. |
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Juggling Twins. Meghan Regan-Loomis, $29.99
The best tips, tricks and strategies
from pregnancy to the toddler years. |
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Ling & Ting, Not Exactly the
Same! Grace Lin, $6.50 (ages 6-9)
Ling and Ting are twins — they look
alike, they dress alike — but they are not exactly the same! |
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Lucy and Henry are Twins. Elizabeth Winthrop,
illustrated by Jane Massey, $22.99 (ages 4-7)
Join Lucy and Henry as they have an adventurous day! |
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Max & Ruby and Twin Trouble. Rosemary Wells,
$23.99 (ages 3-6)
Max and Ruby’s family is expanding and soon enough nobody
will be getting any sleep!
Max and Ruby are in for a big surprise. Mama is having
twins, and soon the family will be bigger and better. Luckily Ruby knows all
about babies: what they eat, how to bathe them, and where they come from. Ruby
tells Max all about it. Soon no one will be getting any sleep, but Max has an
idea on how to help! |
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Mel & Mo's Marvelous Balancing Act. Nicola
Winstanley, illustrated by Marianne Ferrer, $21.95 (ages 4-7)
Mel and Mo may look alike, but these twins’ personalities
are far from identical. As they grow up, their differences drive them apart... which suits them just fine. Mel’s umbrellas fly off the shelves and Mo’s
high-wire feats are the talk of their seaside town. But then Theodora Tweedle’s
Raincoats and Roller Skates draws Mo’s crowds away, and umbrellas go out of
style. Finally, these siblings have something in common. And maybe each twin
has just what they need to create something new... together.
Mel and Mo’s Marvelous Balancing Act balances
complex concepts of compromise and complementary differences with spare
language and a simple story structure. The twins are non-binary characters,
adding a layer of diverse representation for young readers that can also serve
as an entry point for gender fluidity discussions. |
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More Blueberries! Susan Musgrave, illustrations by Esperança Melo, $6.95 (ages 3-5)
These young twins can't get enough of their favorite
snack — and they aren't the only ones! With playful rhyming text from
award-winning poet Susan Musgrave and gorgeous illustrations by Esperança Melo,
this exuberant book will delight little ones and have everyone happily
shouting, "More blueberries!" |
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Multiples: More of
Everything DVD, Volume One — Prenatal & Birth.
InJoy Videos, $39.99 Note: InJoy DVDs are sold
for Home Use Only; and for sale only within Canada.
All other users can contact Parentbooks for more information
Multiples: More of Everything DVD,
Volume Two —– Postpartum & Breastfeeding.
InJoy Videos, $39.99 Note: InJoy DVDs are sold
for Home Use Only; and for sale only within Canada.
All other users can contact Parentbooks for more information
This two-volume series prepares parents for the special challenges of having twins or more through the experiences of other families. Stories of twin and triplet pregnancies, births and first-year developmental milestones will inform and encourage viewers. |
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One and the Same: My Life as an Identical Twin and What I’ve Learned about Everyone’s Struggle to Be Singular. Abigail Pogrebin, $22.00
In One and the Same, journalist
Abigail Pogrebin presents a tapestry of twinship, weaving science
reporting and personal memoir with the revelatory stories of
other twins — such
as two sisters who stopped speaking for three years; football
stars Tiki and Ronde Barber, who admit their twinship comes before
their marriages; a pair of bawdy, self-proclaimed “twin
ambassadors” who have created a media empire around their
twinness; and brothers whose shared genetic anomaly wrought unspeakable
tragedy. In this stirring account, Pogrebin shows how living
identical is both a celebration of sameness and a struggle for
singularity that defines us all. |
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Parenting School
Age Twins and Multiples. Christina Baglivi Tinglof, $23.95
From a mother of 10-year-old twins, your
guide to navigating the issues of raising multiples as they enter
the school years. For every multiple that graduates from diapers
and cribs to science fair projects and double-dating, there’s a
parent facing a whole new host of concerns. Based on extensive research
and dozens of parent interviews, Parenting School-Age Twins
and Multiples provides you with practical, parent-tested tips
and advice to address the unique challenges of raising older multiples
and help you and your kids thrive through the school years and beyond.
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Raising Twins After
the First Year. Karen Gottesman, $20.99
Everything you need to know about bringing up twins, from toddlers
to preteens.
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Raising Twins: Parenting Multiples from Pregnancy
Through the School Years. Shelly Vaziri Flais, $22.95
Pediatrician and twin-mom, Dr. Shelly Vaziri Flais,
offers expert advice for raising healthy, well-adjusted twins and triplets in
this fully revised and updated third edition. Her guidance will help parents of
multiples prepare for their babies’ arrival, weather the first few months of
infancy, manage toddlerhood, and help establish individual identities through
the school-age and teenage years. The combination of sound medical advice and
real-world experience will give twin-parents the direction and reassurance that
they need. Packed with thoughtful advice, parenting tips, and anecdotes from
twin-moms and -dads, this new edition also includes interviews with twins,
including astronaut Scott Kelly. |
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Take Two! A Celebration of Twins. J. Patrick Lewis & Jane Yolen, illustrated by Sophie
Blackall, $20.00 (4 yrs and up)
Old twins, new twins, famous twins,
not-at-all-alike twins, side-by-side twins, let's play twins, not-yet twins, mirror
twins — all kinds of twins come together in a collection of original poems.
From a wave and a wink, to a twin switcheroo these whimsically illustrated
poems and mini facts will leave even singletons with a twinkle in their eyes.
Here is the perfect book to share with the twins in your life — and everyone
who loves them. |
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A Twin Is to Hug. Boni Ashburn, illustrated by
John Nez, $18.99 (ages 2-6)
Hand in hand, side by side, a twin is your friend. Every
step of the way, from beginning to end. Having a twin can be great! With a
twin, you have a lifelong bond, a partner in crime, and a
food-I-don’t-want-to-eat eater. But with a twin, you also have to share, and
take turns, and compare. It’s not always easy, but for better or worse, a twin
is a friend who will always be by your side. With a small trim and expressive illustrations,
this package will make the perfect gift for the expectant mother or twin in
your life. |
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The Twin Kangaroo Treasure Hunt: a
Gay Parenting Story. Carmen Martinez Jover, illustrated
by Rosemary Martinez, $22.95 (ages 4-7)
A sweet children’s story of how two
kangaroos, Jack and Sam, have their own twins by means of an egg donor and
surrogacy. This cheerful book helps children understand the complicated methods
related to their conception in a simple and loving way. |
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Twin
Sense: a Sanity-Saving Guide to Raising Twins from Pregnancy
through the First Year. Dagmara Scalise, $19.95
Practical solutions to the real-life
problems of raising multiples in the first year.
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Twin
Set: Moms of Multiples Share Survive & Thrive Secrets.
Christina Boyle & Cathleen Stahl, $18.00
Twin Set provides a parent-to-parent
support network and shares indispensable solution-oriented advice... and a few laughs along the way. There’s also a Mommy Doc and
Daddy Doc onboard, two pediatricians who contribute medical perspectives
on various issues, in addition to special features from experts
ranging from a financial planner to a nutritionist. This encouraging
and essential guide will help you savor — not just survive — life as
a time-crunched parent of multiples. |
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Twin to Twin.
Margaret O'Hair, $19.99 (ages 3-7)
A simple rhyme and appealing cartoon
artwork make this picture book a fun read-aloud for young children, twins or not.
The boy-girl twins begin their journey as infants and as the pages turn they
grow into toddlerhood. |
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Twindergarten. Nikki Ehrlich, illustrated by Zoey
Abbott, $19.99 (ages 4-8)
Dax and Zoe are twins. They go together like peanut
butter and jelly. It’s the night before the twins are starting kindergarten,
and they have the just-about-to-start-school jitters. After all, they will be in
different classrooms! What will kindergarten be like when they’re not together
all day? But Dax and Zoe will learn that kindergarten is full of new surprises
and adventures, and being apart for a short while isn’t so bad. |
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The Twins' Blanket. Hyewon Yum, $20.50 (ages 3-6)
These look-alike twins have always
shared everything — their room, their toys, a crib, and, since the day they were
born, a blanket. But as they grow into new beds, they need new blankets, too.
Now they face a new dilemma: they don't know how not to share.
Told from the perspective of two
five-year-olds, THE TWINS' BLANKET playfully illuminates squabbles and
affection between young siblings. Yum's minimalistic art astutely captures
these twins' emotions as they toss, turn, and tug their new and old
blankets — and embrace their growing independence. |
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Twins 101: 50 Must-Haves Tips for Pregnancy though
Early Childhood from Doctor MOM. Kanh-Van Le-Bucklin, $21.95
Dr. Le-Bucklin is a pediatrician who is also a mother of
twins, and her book on pregnancy and parenting with multiples offers this
unique and much-needed perspective.
Twins 101 features practical advice and
well-researched information in an easy-to-read format. From maintaining a
healthy twin pregnancy to meeting the daily challenge of caring for twins, Twins
101 guides families through each stage with insightful tips, practical
advice, useful resources, and inspirational stories. |
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TWINS: a Practical Guide to Parenting Multiples from
Conception to Preschool. Katrina Bowman & Louise Ryan, $23.95
Based on extensive research as well as their own and
other twin parents' experiences of pregnancy, birth and twin toddlers, Katrina
and Louise offer sound practical advice that is backed up by medical
practitioners and health professionals where relevant. Detailed information
with user-friendly explanations of medical jargon is peppered with amusing and
moving stories of catastrophe, chaos and coping. There are at-a-glance hints
and survival tips at the end of each chapter and easy-reference tables of
information throughout.
The number of multiple births is rapidly increasing due
to IVF and the older age range of new mothers. More people are having twins (or
multiples) than ever before. This is the book they have to have. |
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Twins: the Practical and Reassuring
Guide to Pregnancy, Birth and the First Year. Katy
Hymas & Carol Cooper, $18.00
With lively anecdotes and a host of
twin-tested tips, this book gives you all the tools you need to prepare for the
birth and to parent your twin babies with confidence. |
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Twins! Pregnancy,
Birth and the First Year of Life, 2nd Edition. Connie Agnew,
Alan Klein & Jill Alison Ganon, $23.99
This comprehensive guide for all parents
preparing for a multiple birth is filled with practical advice from
specialists who work with expectant mothers and their twins every
day. Twins! provides complete information on pregnancy,
birth, and the postpartum experience. |
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Twins and Supertwins:
a Handbook for Early Childhood Professionals. Eve-Marie Arce,
$39.95
This practical handbook helps educators to support the unique needs of multiples in their physical, social, language and emotional development. Based on current research and observations in preschool settings, this book helps educators foster relationships with parents and create guidelines within your setting for working with twins, triplets and higher multiples.
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Twinsight: a Guide to Raising Emotionally Healthy
Twins. Dara Lovitz, $24.99
It's a fact: twins experience life differently than
singleton children. They're compared to each other in everything from athletics
to academics. They encounter unique social issues (what happens when one child
is invited to a social outing while her twin is not?). They can even have
difficulty forming deep relationships outside of the twinship.
Twinsight: How to Raise Emotionally Healthy Twins bypasses the usual discussions on how to pay for two tuitions (a conundrum, to
be sure!) and instead tackles deeper questions: How do you help twins feel like
individuals? Should they be expected to be each other's caretaker? How can a
parent avoid comparing? How can you encourage relationships outside the
twinship? and more! Drawing on over seventy interviews with adult twins and
their non-twin siblings, as well as expert insights from educators and
psychologists and exhaustive research, author Dara Lovitz offers parents a
definitive roadmap to raising emotionally healthy twins now and into the
future. |
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Twinspiration:
Real-Life Advice from Pregnancy through First Year. Cheryl
Lage, $21.95
A hybrid of prescriptive "how-to"
guidebook and intimate diary, Twinspiration recounts with
unabashed personal detail the tribulations and triumphs of a twin
pregnancy and first year of life with twins. Incorporating a conversational,
humorous tone throughout, Cheryl Lage provides a double dose of
user-friendly suggestions, real-life advice, and heartfelt empathy. |
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Two is for Twins. Wendy Cheyette Lewison, $10.99 (ages 3 and under)
Twins, as you can plainly see, are just as two as two can
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When You're Expecting Twins, Triplets or Quads, 3rd Edition: Proven Guidelines for a Healthy Multiple Pregnancy. Barbara Luke & Tamara Eberlein, $26.99
This practical, nutrition-based program has been used to lower the common complications of a multiple pregnancy, resulting in healthier babies. |
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Complete
Booklist
The Baby Bump: Twins and Triplets Edition. Carly Roney,
$27.95
The Baby Sleep Solution: a Proven Program to Teach Your
Baby to Sleep Twelve Hours a Night. Suzy Giordano & Lisa Abidin, $22.00
Dad's Guide to Twins: How to Survive the Twin Pregnancy
and Prepare for Your Twins. Joe Rawlinson, $18.95
Double Duty: the Parents' Guide to Raising Twins from
Pregnancy through the School Years, 2nd Edition. Christina Baglivi Tinglof, $26.99
Double Time: How I Survived — and Mostly Thrived —
through the First Three Years of Mothering Twins. Jane Roper, $18.50
The Early Birds: a Mother’s Story of Our Times. Jenny
Minton, $17.95
Emotionally Healthy Twins: a New Philosophy for Parenting
Two Unique Children. Joan Friedman, $20.99
Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Twins: a Step-by-Step Program
for Sleep Training Your Multiples. Marc Weissbluth, $21.00
It Gets Easier: Surviving Twins During Their First Year.
Tracey Egan, $19.95
It's Twins! Now What? Tips, Advice and Real-Life
Experience to Help You from Pregnancy through to Your Babies' First Year.
Jessica Bomford, $18.95
It's Twins! Parent-to-Parent Advice from Infancy to
Adolescence. Susan Heim, $21.95
Juggling Twins. Meghan Regan-Loomis, $29.99
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Multiples: More of Everything DVD, Volume One — Prenatal
& Birth. InJoy Videos, $39.99 Note: InJoy DVDs are sold for Home Use Only;
and for sale only within Canada. All other users can contact Parentbooks for
more information
Multiples: More of Everything DVD, Volume Two —
Postpartum & Breastfeeding. InJoy Videos, $39.99 Note: InJoy DVDs are sold
for Home Use Only; and for sale only within Canada. All other users can contact
Parentbooks for more information
One and the Same: My Life as an Identical Twin and What
I've Learned about Everyone's Struggle to Be Singular. Abigail Pogrebin, $22.00
Parenting School Age Twins and Multiples. Christina
Baglivi Tinglof, $23.95
Raising Twins after the First Year. Karen Gottesman, $20.99
Raising Twins: Parenting Multiples from Pregnancy Through
the School Years. Shelly Vaziri Flais, $22.95
Twin Sense: a Sanity-Saving Guide to Raising Twins from
Pregnancy through the First Year. Dagmara Scalise, $19.95
Twin Set: Moms of Multiples Share Survive & Thrive
Secrets. Christina Boyle & Cathleen Stahl, $18.00
Twins 101: 50 Must-Haves Tips for Pregnancy though Early
Childhood from Doctor MOM. Kanh-Van Le-Bucklin, $21.95
TWINS: a Practical Guide to Parenting Multiples from
Conception to Preschool. Katrina Bowman & Louise Ryan, $23.95
Twins: the Practical and Reassuring Guide to Pregnancy,
Birth and the First Year. Katy Hymas & Carol Cooper, $18.00
Twins! Pregnancy, Birth and the First Year of Life, 2nd
Edition. Connie Agnew, Alan Klein & Jill Alison Ganon, $23.99
Twins and Supertwins: a Handbook for Early Childhood
Professionals. Eve-Marie Arce, $39.95
Twinsight: a Guide to Raising Emotionally Healthy Twins.
Dara Lovitz, $24.99
Twinspiration: Real-Life Advice from Pregnancy through
First Year. Cheryl Lage, $21.95
When You're Expecting Twins, Triplets or Quads, 3rd
Edition: Proven Guidelines for a Healthy Multiple Pregnancy. Barbara Luke &
Tamara Eberlein, $26.99
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Books for Kids
Double Trouble for Anna Hibiscus! Atinuke, illustrated by
Lauren Tobia, $22.50 (ages 3-7)
I'm Having Twins! Paris Morris, $20.75 (ages 3-6)
Ling & Ting, Not Exactly the Same! Grace Lin, $6.50
(ages 6-9)
Lucy and Henry are Twins. Elizabeth Winthrop, illustrated
by Jane Massey, $22.99 (ages 4-7)
Max & Ruby and Twin Trouble. Rosemary Wells, $23.99
(ages 3-6)
Mel & Mo's Marvelous Balancing Act. Nicola
Winstanley, illustrated by Marianne Ferrer, $21.95 (ages 4-7)
More Blueberries! Susan Musgrave, illustrations by
Esperança Melo, $6.95 (ages 3-5)
Take Two! A Celebration of Twins. J. Patrick Lewis &
Jane Yolen, illustrated by Sophie Blackall, $20.00 (ages 4+)
A Twin Is to Hug. Boni Ashburn, illustrated by John Nez,
$18.99 (ages 2-6)
The Twin Kangaroo Treasure Hunt: a Gay Parenting Story.
Carmen Martinez Jover, illustrated by Rosemary Martinez, $22.95 (ages 4-7)
Twin to Twin. Margaret O'Hair, $19.95 (ages 3-7)
Twindergarten. Nikki Ehrlich, illustrated by Zoey Abbott,
$19.99
The Twins' Blanket. Hyewon Yum, $20.50 (ages 3-6)
Two is for Twins. Wendy Cheyette Lewison, $10.99 (ages 3
and under)
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