Collaboratively written by Angela Whitehill and William Noble, The Parents Book Of Ballet is an answer-packed guide for parents of preteens, early teens, and older children learning the art and craft of ballet. Chapters cover how to find a qualified teacher, how to help a young person adapt to the demands of rehearsal and auditions, the pros and cons of ballet, and much more. The Parents Book Of Ballet is very highly recommended for the parents of any youngster with an interested in taking ballet lessons.

This book is exactly what the title says it is-a guide. Not a textbook, a quick and easy read, yet it is so informative, it should be mandatory reading for all parents of dance students, especially ballet. Ms. Whitehill takes the parent through all stages of dance training and gives the best advice I've seen to date. Covers EVERYTHING!

I loved this book. It was wonderful. It gave a lot of information and at the same time was very interesting. It gave all the facts you would want to know as a parent of a young dancer, or a young dancer yourself. I found everything I wanted to know in it and would recommend it to a friend.

Wake Up, Me! is a sunny, full-color picturebook written by Marine McGee specifically for young boys and girls just starting to read their very first words. The warm, homey artwork by Sam Williams fills pages with the wide-eyed wonderment of a toddler just waking up to a new day. A great book for reading to very young children, Wake Up, Me! is particularly recommended for preschool, day care, kindergarten, and community library collections for beginning readers.

This picture book is a gleeful way to greet the day, and just the thing for bringing on the sunshine. Sam William's cheerful illustrations perfectly compliment Marni McGee's warm, playful rhymes. My son likes to hear it first thing in the morning, with a cup of orange juice, a tickle and a hug. If you already have SLEEPY ME (also by McGee & Williams), you will certainly need this lively companion book. If you don't have SLEEPY ME, well, for goodness sake, get it! Both of these books are sure to claim special places in your child's day and in your heart.

WAKE UP, ME and McGee's SLEEPY ME are two good 'friends' that every young family should have. The simple, exuberant rhyme is a perfect 'good-morning' song that will help your toddler greet the day with joy and anticipation. (I could see parents 'singing' this to their children with a kiss and a cuddle to get them out of bed.) Williams' illustrations are cozy and warm and as big as the expectations of a toddler, ready and rarin' to go!

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I recommend that every parent in America read this book. It is a wonderful guideline for parents.

The book "Will You Murder Your African American Children" is a guideline for parents who care for their children but do not have the information that will help them become successful parents.

Good resource on grief. Well thought out and presented.
I also use the grief video, After the Tears, A Gentle Guide to Help Children Understand Death.

If you're looking for a book that brings together the best in scholarly research with a practical usefulness, look no further. Children and Grief is a veritable treasure chest. Worden and his colleagues did a masterful job of using data derived not only from parents (where many studies gather their data) but also through structured interviews with the children themselves.

Perhaps the section of the volume of most compelling use to professionals is the chapter in which Worden summarizes what he calls "mediators of the child's bereavement experience." Here, in useful fashion, the author draws out elements of the death itself, its cause, the relationship between the child, deceased parent, and surviving caregivers, and a host of other factors that influence how a bereaved child copes.

Dr. Worden wrote one of the landmark textbooks on grief counseling when he wrote Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy two decades ago. The present volume is destined to be of as much practical help as the first one was. It's another book that has remained at arm's length from my desk since it was first published three years ago.

A well documented history of today's Black family. Read this book to understand how our family structure has manage to weaken over the last 150 years. This book left me with the understanding that our individaul accomplishments consisting of corporate promotions, new home purchases, and higher incomes don't mean much when our family structure continues to weaken our community towards non-existence.

I don't know Donna Franklin and don't have anything to gain through my comments. This book is one of the best I've read in a LONG time in analyzing the reasons for some of the changes in the black family and suggesting a number of very lucid, rational, and intelligent recommendations. Absolutely terrific, terrific book! Very scholarly, well-researched, and thoughtful but written in non-jargon and extremely accessible to the average reader. Should be required reading in most college courses as well as for our politicians.

This is a story of children, real children, still soft inside, and yet with a force field that can put off both the kindest and the most brutal attacks one can inflict. It is a story of a justice system long gone amuck, but often with good intentions, and some surprisingly good people lighting up the corners. Ayers is a good tale-teller, and catches students at the juvenile detention "home" in Chicago - it could just as well be many other places - in moments of anger, despair, humor, joy, self-deception and learning, along with the teachers that carefully try to offer regularity, challenge and choice. For those many to whom juveniles and juvenile detention facilities are not real, this book is a must. For those who know, it will be a renewed inspiration and challenge. For those who want to look further than Ayers points at a the development of our justice system and really systemic changes in the way we handle wrongs, both adult and juvenile, a great place to start would be Howard Zehr's, _Changing Lenses: A New Focus on Crime and Justice_.

Ayers book should be read by all educators who work with young people forgotten by the system. His case studies are brilliantly drawn and teach us a great deal about "juvenile justice". It has provoked discussion of poverty, violence, and social change. It has changed the thinking of many of my students for its clarity, insight, and hope.

This second book is small but interesting like the first.

My two children song the chorus of " Sweet and sour berries"
again and again. My younger rename this storie because he was
so impressed by one of the characters. He said always this is
the black's man story.

I very found of "The man who bought a dream". It's sound interesting and it is.

Another storie with a strange title is "Deer and jaguar share a house". After i told this storie, one children was the deer
and the other the jaguar.

The "Little frog and centipede" is very good for the younger.

The others stories are like these.

Enjoy,
Myriam

I loved the original (Ready-to-Tell Tales) that was published several years ago. Friends who are school librarians or storytellers have also recommended it without reservation. This new book is even better. It has more stories and costs less, always a good equation, and this one has new indexes that list the stories by culture of origin and by audience target age level. Parents, teachers, librarians, and storytellers of all descriptions will love this. Great for high school speech competitions, too!

Leslie Ann Williams' professional, straightforward, cut-the-crap honesty is balanced beautifully by her engaging wit and humor. It's just the right mix to encourage and nurture the necessary dialogue between the often warring factions of teenagers and their parents.

Williams' greatest strength may be in the seemingly effortless skill she exhibits in holding up the invaluable "mirror of recognition" for both parent and teenager as they assess the failure or success of particular strategies in their ongoing I'm-your-parent/I'm-no-longer-a-little-kid relationship.

Especially successful in guiding the reader to a humane and intelligent disarmament of the often volative parent/teenager disagreements, Williams supplies ample praise (and often gleeful conspiratorial advice) to both parents and their teens as they work to achieve a kind of detente in the arena dedicated to the art of parenting and growing up.

I acquired this book recently on the recommendation of a friend. As both a parent and a public school teacher I thought it might prove interesting and useful, and indeed this is the case. The book is a quick read and to the point, making its case (so I would guess) in a fraction of the space other books on this topic take. Highly recommended for parents of teens and pre-teens, and for teens receptive to clear thinking in an informal and direct Q and A format.

The William and Constance Starr's book is written by two professional musicians, Suzuki teachers and Suzuki parents of 8. It is based on the extensive personal experience and close interaction with Shinichi Suzuki while living in Japan and by hosting him at their house in the US. The book's main themes are the practice of teaching children music using Suzuki method and topics relevant to raising children in general, each taking roughly a half of the book.

The narrative is both inspirational and practical, while the chapters are to the point: a statement is made and illustrated by a real life example. The book is certainly an invaluable companion for a Suzuki parent with advises ranging from choosing a teacher and supervision of practice to child's participation in orchestras. But it also should appeal to any parent who feels that raising children is one of his top priorities: nurturing a positive self-image with a "yes, I can" attitude, importance of tradition, woes of sibling rivalry and significance of correct diet are some of the issues that the book tackles.

I would recommend this book to any parent.

I was recommended this book by my kids violin teacher. I found this book to be full of very helpful advice and great perspectives. The authors are both music teachers and parents and the perspective they provide is helping greatly as my kids are learning Suzuki violin. It's a must read for any parent who has a kid learning a musical instument.

My two year old loves this book and demands to read it 4 or 5 times a day. It is a story about a little dog who plays hide-n-seek from his parents who are eagerly searching for him all over the house. My daughter loves to "find" Toby as parts of him are peeking out on each page, much to his parent's apparently fruitless search. This is a really fun book which let's kids feel like they are in on something big in "finding" Toby when apparently his mommy and daddy can't! Great illustrations. A must have--HIGHLY, HIGHLY recommended.

When father arrives home after work, he finds Toby lying in front of their front door. "What am I", asks Toby? "Aha, a new doormat", answers his father. Now let the games begin. As the evening wears on from dinner, relaxing family time, to bedtime, Toby delights his family with his inventive guessing game, pretending to be among other things, a clothes tree, bridge, sandwich, flyswatter and even a mountain with snow on top..... Those who enjoyed William Steig's Toby, Where Are You, will be just as enchanted with this new addition to the series. His simple guessing game text is beautifully complemented by Teryl Euvremer's soft, quiet, homey artwork and youngsters can put their imaginations to work as they guess right along with Toby's mother and father and even join in this interactive game. Perfect for pre-schoolers, Toby, What are You is a charming and creative picture book you won't want to miss.