Best Baby Products, 9th Ed. (Best Baby Products)

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Skip this book and just buy Baby Bargains

Not what I was hoping for

MUST have for a first time mom or any mom

Good for first time parents

Save your money!

Best Baby Products, 9th Ed. (Best Baby Products)
Sandra J. Gordon , and Editors of Consumer Reports
Manufacturer: Consumer Reports
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1933524073
Release Date: 2007-04-03

Book Description

More than two decades of new parents have turned to Consumer Reports Best Baby Products, the A-Z guide for everything they need to know about getting the best value on the safest products for their babies. This ninth edition is updated with the latest safety and product buying advice and exclusive Consumer Reports Ratings. Consumer Reports is the only publisher that conducts its own independent, unbiased safety and effectiveness testing on products for babies. We accept no advertising in our publications. Everything we test is purchased by secret shoppers in the same stores that new parents shop in. We'll tell you not only which products are best, but also which products to avoid because they are not safe, or simply are a waste of money. As a result Consumer Reports Best Baby Products is the indispensable companion for new parents navigating the complex maze of hundreds of available baby products. What are the features to look for to make sure the crib you buy is a safe one? All-terrain strollers, stroller frames, umbrella strollers, travel systems? We'll help you buy the parent-powered transporter that best suits your needs and budget. Does a pacifier really prevent sudden infant death syndrome? Written with warmth, wit and authority, Best Baby Products will help alleviate some of the anxiety caused by all the questions running through a new parent's mind. Consumer Reports buying advice and ratings allows buyers to streamline the selection process, avoid shopping pitfalls, and help keep the baby budget in balance. Here is everything you need to know about: Baby bottles #8226; Baby food#8226; Backpack carriers#8226; Bathtubs #8226; Bedding #8226; Bouncers #8226; Breast Pumps #8226; Cameras #8226; Car seats #8226; Changing tables #8226; Clothing #8226; Cribs #8226; Diapers #8226; Diaper bags #8226; Diaper pails #8226; Formula #8226; Gates #8226; High chairs #8226; Kid-friendly cars #8226; Mattresses #8226; Monitors #8226; Nursing Bras #8226; Pacifiers #8226; Play yards #8226; Rocking chairs and gliders #8226; Soft carriers #8226; Stationary activity centers #8226; Strollers #8226; Stuffed animals #8226; Swings #8226; Toys #8226; and more! Plus: #8226;How to administer medications to babies and children#8226;Child-proofing and home-safety tips#8226; Recent safety recalls

Customer Reviews:

Skip this book and just buy Baby Bargains.......2007-10-15

This book was a major disappointment. I spent about 30 minutes flipping through it looking for some solid product reviews, but it really missed the mark. I just wanted to know how certain things rated, like strollers and car seats, and the book just skimmed over those topics. Skip this book and just buy Baby Bargains... I wish I had saved my money.

Not what I was hoping for.......2007-10-11

Grrr... so I am an avid Consumer Reports reader and seeing as I am pregnant w/ baby number 2, I decided to renew my consumer reports online account to see ratings for the latest baby items. Sadly, not much there and instead they refer you to buying this book. So, I go buy the book. I am definitely not happy. As most of the other reviews on here state, there are barely any actual reviews which is what I expect from consumer reports. It's mostly just a bunch of advice and general overviews of different "types" of products without the actual ratings of "specific products". This all might be useful to first time parents but not to someone who's already well aware of the basics. I SO wish I had come here to read the reviews on this book first but sadly, I trusted consumer reports to deliver on what they do best- ratings. What a bummer.

MUST have for a first time mom or any mom.......2007-09-08

No this book doesn't tell you to go out and buy this specific stroller or crib or car seat but it does review what things to check for while you are looking. There are just way too many choices out there for them to pick one (or a couple) item from each category and tell everyone to buy that item. What works for one person may not for another. I found this book very helpful. I'm going to be a first time mom in 3 months and every time I walk through the baby aisles in the stores (or online) looking at baby supplies my head would spin from the variety and quantity of products out there. How on earth can people choose! Of course we all want what is best for our babies! I go to consumer reports when I want to make a major purchase so when I found out they published a book on all their baby products I was relieved. Nothing is more important to me than having safe, reliable products for my baby. I am so glad I got it. The book reviews everything from cribs to car seats to pacifiers and bottles, bathtubs and beyond. It also discusses what NOT to get (i.e. some products that have not been deemed safe) which is equally important. I will be going to register for my shower with this book in my hand. There is a baby basics checklist in the beginning on which I have been taking notes as I read (and sometimes re-read) this book. It will make the registering a much easier process. I am buying this book for all my friends who are pregnant! Good luck to all the new moms and dads!

Good for first time parents.......2007-08-23

This book contains a lot of information on types of products. It goes through what you need and what will make life easier. It also details features on items that are both plus and minuses and what to look for when buying certain items but it often stops short of recommending a particular brand over another. I was a little surprised that it did not contain as many detailed brand vs. brand. There are some. I just expected more.

So if you are a first time parent and you need a little help as far as what to look for and what to look out for this will be helpful. If you are already a parent and are looking for brand recommendations skip purchasing this book.

Save your money!.......2007-08-20

Honestly? Save your money and buy a subscription to consumer reports online for $25/year. I didn't see much at all in this book that wasn't already available online through consumer reports.

Retirement Income Redesigned: Master Plans for Distribution: An Adviser's Guide for Funding Boomers' Best Years

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Money Well Spent
Excellent source of advice
Excellent Technical Discussion
An Important Book for Financial Advisers

Retirement Income Redesigned: Master Plans for Distribution: An Adviser's Guide for Funding Boomers' Best Years

Manufacturer: Bloomberg Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1576601897

Book Description

For years, financial planners have focused on helping their clients accumulate wealth for retirement. Now, as millions of those boomer clients head into retirement, there is little quality information on how to manage that wealth in retirement. Evensky and Katz, two of the nation's best-known financial planners, asked leading experts to give advisers a toolkit and roadmap to the new landscape. Included are valuable insights and practical approaches for increasing retirement cash flow, withdrawal strategies, longevity insurance, creating portfolios with low volatility, and decision making. Each of the 26 contributors offers fresh research and solutions for forecasting income needs, evaluating client needs, and communicating effectively with clients. Armed with these more effective approaches to distribution and improved methodologies for planning, financial advisers and wealth managers will be able to make their clients? golden years shine ever more brightly.

Customer Reviews:

Money Well Spent.......2007-08-16

I have read over two dozen books on investing and retirement planning and this is among my favorites. First, there are few books which talk to the subject of distribution (as opposed to accumulation) strategies. Second, the authors have chosen to allow other experts to contribute to their book - 25 of them to be precise. So you are not just getting the advice of one or two people, but the opinions of over two dozen renowned experts in the field. There is a tremendous amount of wisdom contained in the chapters.

As anyone who is a student of investing and retirement planning will know, Harold Evensky is quoted routinely and widely recognized as an expert in his field. Simply getting his advice is more than worth the price of admission. An example is the Evensky & Katz Cash Flow Reserve Strategy (E&KS) which is discussed in chapter 11. I have no doubt I will use this strategy in my own distribution planning.

Also not to be missed in the work of Bill Bengen on sustainable withdrawals, which is presented in chapter 13. Anyone who is contemplating managing their own cash flows in retirement (and even those who entrust this to others) should not miss Bill's views and opinions. He is arguably the leading expert on sustainable withdrawal rates in the financial planning business. I would highly recommend that you also consider purchasing his book, Conserving Client Portfolio's During Retirement, in addition to this fine work. Fortunately that book has recently become available on Amazon so it is now easy to find and obtain. I purchased my copy about 9 months ago and had to order it directly from the Financial Planning Association.

While you may not agree with every opinion expressed in this book, it will certainly get you to thinking (perhaps outside the box) and pressure testing what you think you know.

I'm sure I will use it as a constant guide in managing my own finances.

Excellent source of advice.......2007-08-04

I have been reading retirement and investment books extensively over the past 2 years (Graham, Gibson, Slott, Stein etc.) and while some have touched on saving for retirement, few have touched on withdrawal strategy. In this book, Harold has gone to great length to spell out the retiree's psychological and economic needs, and offers up excellent options to address both. That section, plus the other fine chapters by other authors, make this a must-have book for the enlightened counselor.

Excellent Technical Discussion.......2007-03-10

As a recent retiree, who is not a professional financial planner, I found this book very helpful in understanding the "technical" details of various financial planning tools. I was particularly interested in Monte Carlo analysis (which I use) and how this tool can be used to objectively (albeit not in the most easily understandable form for a lay person) quantify my investment portfolio risk.

It was also very interesting in how the Monte Carlo tool is being misused to evaluate risks other than simple investment portfolio risk. I would agree with the authors conerns about how certain financial planners are trying to use Monte Carlo analysis to evaluate risk far beyond the investment portfolio.

Traditional financial planning advice would suggest an ultra-conservative investment strategy high in fixed income securities. For those willing and able to accept the variablity of the stock market, a significantly higher level of income can be generated with little additional risk. Monte Carlo is the tool (properly used) to evaluate investment strategies.

An Important Book for Financial Advisers.......2006-05-24

This collection of twenty essays on retirement planning shifts the focus of much of the current literature from the accumulation of assets to their distribution. "Retirementality" - how we think about and live out retirement (Anthony) - is being redefined by a generation who are living years longer than their predecessors. Indeed, "longevity risk" is one of the central themes of this book. As defined benefit pension plans disappear and the viability of social security is debated, the net reality is that longer living retirees are left with fewer streams of guaranteed life-time income. Making that nest egg last is a challenge. Failure to do so is "the probability of ruin" - to use Milevsky's indelicate phrase.

A number of these contributors see annuities as integral to generating a guaranteed life-long stream of cash. Carey and Dellinger (and Milevsky elsewhere) maintain that investment returns produced by an annuity will always be superior to identical investments outside an annuity because of the "mortality credits" from other terminated annuity policy holders which are factored into the projected income. A chapter on reverse mortgages presents an evenly balanced discussion of this additional source of income for retirees. Considering that half the population who reach 65 may need some form of expensive institutional care (Greenwald), supplemental streams of income may also prove useful to pay for a long-term care insurance policy.

"Sustained Withdrawals" (Benge) seeks to determine a "safemax" - the maximum, annual withdrawal percentage rate from a retiree's accumulated wealth during this "decumulation" (Katz) phase. Determining this rate is another key theme in this collection. The rub is that relying solely on historical average rates of return and conservative withdrawal percentage rates mean little to a portfolio's survival if the sequence of market returns is negative in the early years of retirement. Benge's research looks at different withdrawal rates, asset mixes, various timing strategies, and adjustments to the withdrawal rate when it is a goal to leave nest egg assets as a bequest. Meanwhile, Stanaslovich in "Creating Portfolios With Lower Volatility" raises the bar with a gloomy projection of low returns for a variety of asset classes into the next decade.

This book should be read by financial planners, brokerage advisers working with retiring clients, and informed investors who want to manage their own affairs.

Teeth Are Not for Biting (Best Behavior Series)

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No more biting!
Worked for our son
Outstanding!
great book
Gets the message across

Teeth Are Not for Biting (Best Behavior Series)
Elizabeth Verdick
Manufacturer: Free Spirit Publishing
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Binding: Board book

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ASIN: 1575421283

Product Description

This book invites children to discover other ways of dealing with anger and emotions.

Customer Reviews:

No more biting!.......2007-10-11

This book has been a great resource & asset for our son who kept biting his brother when angry. He likes the book so much that he keeps asking to read it. The book seemed to get the point across when all of our time-outs and talking had not changed the behavior.

Worked for our son.......2007-09-28

This is the best book we have ever bought for our son! Our son was biting for months. Every week he had a least two incidents of biting, and MANY MANY attempts. The teachers would monitor him constantly.

We tried time-out, cold drinks, hugs, and prayer. Then his anti-social behavior went away for a whole week. We thought we were home free, until he started a new school. Again, the biting came back. The teacher said, "it's not a matter of if he will bite, it is when." He had five or six attempts everyday. My son was going to be kicked out of school. Then I read an article about these books.

I ran out bought the book the end of August. Thank God, he has not bitten since. He loves the book, and I attribute this book to his change in behaviour. He has not even ATTEMPTED to bite once -- knock on wood.

I don't claim this will work for everyone, but it sure can't hurt to try. Thank you so much Ms Verdick for an amazing book.

Outstanding!.......2007-08-08

We have a wonderful little 14 month old guy at our daycare who has been randomly biting everyone. Including my 7 month old baby girl. The sitter and the boy's mom had tried all kinds of things. Startling him, ignoring him to comfort the bite-ee, and a myriad of other stuff. Out of desperation (I am crazy about our sitter AND this little boy, but was unhappy about the biting), I bought this book after the third bite in a week. The sitter read it to the little guy and injected the little boy's name into every "you" in the book. It seems to have gotten the message across and so far no more bites have gone down. Best of all, there is a section with information and ideas for parents and caregivers about biting, why it happens, ideas to prevent and re-direct. I really like the approach of this book and I highly recommend it to anyone with a biter or bite-ee that needs some help.

great book.......2007-08-06

My son, 28 months, loves this book and it has really helped us. He really likes to hear this book, reading it over and over again. And he seems to be able to relate to the phrase, "ouch! biting hurts!" It has given us good opportunities to discuss the problem and to discuss what else could be done instead of biting. We have been very pleased.

Gets the message across.......2007-07-20

This book was somewhat helpful, for both us parents and our child. Now whenever we say something about biting, Jonah (21 months) will say "ouch, biting hurts" although it's not clear that he understands what that means. I wish I could say his biting has stopped, it hasn't, but I think he's teething and hope it will be over soon.

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A True Classic
Another classic
An Old Friend
Simple concept, but not particularly inspiring for adults
Witty, Wonderful and Sooooo Good!

The Best Nest (Beginner Books(R))
P.D. Eastman
Manufacturer: Random House Books for Young Readers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0394800516
Release Date: 1968-07-12

Book Description

Illus. in full color. Mr. and Mrs. Bird's search for a "better" nest leads them to some peculiar spots.

Customer Reviews:

A True Classic.......2007-04-03

I first read "The Best Nest" more than 27 years ago, when I was 8-years-old. I still have my somewhat tattered copy in my home library and now I plan to order a copy for my twin 2-year-olds. The story is a true classic with the underlying message that we should appreciate our home and our loved ones. The story is all told through the eyes of Mr. & Mrs. Bird who grow tired of their old nest and go through many challenges trying to find a new one until something horrible and wonderful happens that makes them appreciate the simple things in live. A must read for all little kids. Grown-ups might enjoy it too!

Another classic.......2007-02-11

Both my daughter and I enjoy the tale of finding your own current home to be the best. Eastman's illustrations are always so wonderful and distinctive.

An Old Friend.......2007-01-18

The only gifts we exchange in my family during the holidays are gifts of the heart. So, I decided to surprise my 33 year old daughter -- who now has her own young son -- by reading from the book "that I had read more times from cover-to-cover than any other book in my life." When I reached into my bag and pulled out "The Best Nest," tears of joy came to her eyes. Then, much to my surprise she jumped up and pulled her own old tattered copy from her bookshelf, which I had read to her so many times nearly 30 years ago. Yes, the book may have a few stereotypical notions about the roles of Mr. and Mrs. Bird; however, my daughter -- who is now a professor of Women's Studies -- still loves this old friend as much as I do.

Simple concept, but not particularly inspiring for adults.......2006-12-17

For me, reading books to children, I really like to enjoy the book as well. My children' love this book - but I find myself fairly ambivalent towards it as a book. It is a simple story about two birds finding a new nest. The mother bird wants a new nest so they fly around trying different places, including a boot and (unfortunately) a church steeple. Finally when they have tried everything else they realise just what the best place to have their nest really is - and that is home.

It is a nice story - and yes it does have gender roles in it - mother is defined with a head scarf and being disatisfied with her nest so she makes the father go out with her and find somewhere new. However, I don't think this is really problematical - you can actually look at is being a)indicative of the time it was written, b) indicative of some families - after all not all families are the same. I think most children will realise that most birds don't go round wearing hats anyway!

It is a children's story - not a particularly inspiring one I think, but one children really enjoy and one with some really good messages to get across - ie, be happy with what you have!

Witty, Wonderful and Sooooo Good!.......2005-08-15

My daycare kids love this book. There is a scream of glee when they see it. It's a fun read. This book has a great rhythm to it. The kids sign a long when I sing Mr. Bird's song. " I love my house. I love my nest. In the all the world this nest is best." MUST HAVE BOOK! I loved this book as a child. My daughter loved and now my daycare kids love it.
I disagree with the reviewer who said the book had the gender stereotypes. Come on only if mom's grumpy is it a stereotype. JMO Yes Mrs. Bird has an attitude problem in the beginning of the book but by the end Mrs. Bird is grateful for what she has.

Best Loved Little Golden Books 6 Copy Boxed Set: I Can Fly/Mister Dog/Baby Farm Animals/Jolly Barnyard/Happy Man and His Dump Truck/Color Kittens

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Excellent
Golden Book set

Best Loved Little Golden Books 6 Copy Boxed Set: I Can Fly/Mister Dog/Baby Farm Animals/Jolly Barnyard/Happy Man and His Dump Truck/Color Kittens
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ASIN: 0375833943
Release Date: 2005-09-13

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Six treasured Little Golden Books are all in one beautiful box! These six titles, featuring adorable animals, are truly the pick of the litter: The Color Kittens; Mister Dog, I Can Fly; Baby Farm Animals; The Jolly Barnyard; and The Happy Man and His Dump Truck. A bonus blank Little Golden Book lets children create their own literary masterpieces!

Customer Reviews:

Excellent.......2007-07-16

Was surprised to find the "Write your own story" book enclosed in this gift set. Would recommend to anyone.

Golden Book set.......2007-02-08

I bought this set for my grandson and am very pleased with it! It has five titles (The Color Kittens, Mister Dog, I Can Fly, Baby Farm Animals, The Jolly Barnyard, and The Happy Man and His Dump Truck) which are old favorites with some favorite author/illustrators, including Margaret Wise Brown and Garth Williams. The reason for buying the set AS a set, however, was the blank create-your-own Golden Book! I think this is a great idea and look forward to seeing my grandson's own story!

Consumer Reports Best Baby Products, 8th Edition (Best Baby Products)

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What a disappointment
DON"T BUY IT!
Incomplete Guide
Not much to report ...
Awesome

Consumer Reports Best Baby Products, 8th Edition (Best Baby Products)
Editors of Consumer Reports , and Sandra Gordon
Manufacturer: Consumer Reports
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0890439869

Book Description

Consumer Reports Guide to Baby Products is the perfect personal baby shopping consultant. Over the years, this invaluable guide has helped thousands of new parents navigate the sea of complex and sophisticated baby merchandise, pointing them to the best products, and steering them away from the less-than-the-best. Consumer Reports allows buyers to streamline the selection pro-cess, avoid shopping pitfalls, and help keep the baby budget in balance. This newly revised edition includes: -Helpful tips on 'building' the baby's nursery from crib to diaper bag -Hundreds of items in the all-new Product Guide -Ratings of car seats, carriers, play yards, and travel systems -Recent safety recalls -The most commonly prescribed medications for babies -Shopping guides to websites, catalogs, and stores -Checklists and worksheets to help organize the shopping process.

Customer Reviews:

What a disappointment.......2007-07-08

Having been a CR subscriber for years now, they were the first I turned to on recommendations for gear for our first baby. In the store, I never even bothered to open the book and look at it because I trusted that if it was written by CR, it had to be quality. When I got home and started leafing through it, I found that MANY sections had no recommendations at all. They simply listed different manufacturers of the products. This was not helpful information--I could've found this on any store's website. I highly recommend taking a look at Baby Bargains, by Denise & Alan Fields, instead. It is jam-packed with great information and is updated frequently to stay current. It has been infinitely more useful than this book.

DON"T BUY IT!.......2007-05-08

Buy 'Baby Bargins' instead!!!! I looked at this book at Barnes and Nobel, but didn't buy it. Only a few products were reviewed.....and the reviews weren't very good. Also, only a few categories were reviewed. The baby bargins book has detailed reviews on all brands in several categories.

Incomplete Guide.......2007-03-31

Regular readers of Consumer Reports will be disappointed in this list of products. It doesn't put baby products to the test.

Not much to report ..........2007-01-13

I was disappointed. The book provides a lot of information on "how to buy" (buying guides), but little information on "WHAT to buy" (recommended brands). Most items are NOT actually tested/reviewed ... the book merely provides a list of brands available - which I could get by walking into any baby store. Hoping 9th Edition is more complete.

Awesome .......2007-01-11

This book is loaded with information. Definitely a must have for helping you keep your baby safe!!

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Odd but useful
Richard Scarry's Best Word Book
Richard Scarey's Best Word Book Ever
Big book!
Long time favorite

Richard Scarry's Best First Book Ever!

Manufacturer: Random House Books for Young Readers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0394842502
Release Date: 1979-09-12

Book Description

Illus. in full color. Favorite Scarry animal characters introduce simple learning concepts and over 700 words.

Customer Reviews:

Odd but useful.......2007-10-14

While there are some oddities in the book (like the parents sleeping in separate beds and Mommy Cat always wearing a dress), it's still a good and solid introduction for vocabulary building. Every page has every item labeled in a variety of situations and places: home, the kitchen, the living room, the laundry room, school, the grocery store, an ice cream parlor, and so forth. It also introduces the basic parts of the body, color theory and counting.

Richard Scarry's books often times contain a running gag of some sort. In Cars and Trucks and Things That Go, readers are asked to find Gold Bug on every page. In this book, readers can follow Mr. Fumble as he tries to catch his windblown hat.The question of where's Mr. Fumble's hat and the often times surreal things depicted and labeled are what make these books so much fun to read.

Richard Scarry's Best Word Book.......2007-10-09

My adult children grew up with an ealier version of this book. I taught 1st and 2nd grades for 30 years and realize the value of literature in the home. Even though this book is not a form of literature, it is a great tool for vocabulary building. I bought this current book as a Christmas present for my new grandson, who will be 3 1/2 months old at Christmas.

Richard Scarey's Best Word Book Ever.......2007-08-29

This is a wonderful book for young children.They learn what a chair is,what a table is etc.My children loved it when they were young and now our grandchild can enjoy the same book.Highly recomended.

Big book!.......2007-07-24

This is a LARGE book, like 12 x 14 inches. So the pages are pretty big, a little unwieldy for small kids, and mine are 18 and 32 months, they have already torn a couple pages just because it's hard for them to flip the big pages. They loves the Richard Scary animals though and like me to read it to them. It is a busy book, lots to see! Great book - I had this one when I was little, but the one in smaller binding!

Long time favorite.......2007-02-13

This is a favorite book my 4-1/2 year son comes back to often. My 18 month old daughter is interested in the pictures too. It teaches many different concepts- shapes, numbers, letters, colors (including mixing colors), months, action words, and good manners. It also educates children about going to the doctor, supermarket, farm, and school.

Hands Are Not for Hitting (The Best Behavior)

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Great Book!
Hands are not for Hitting
My kids like it a lot
good, but too wordy
Disappointed in board book version

Hands Are Not for Hitting (The Best Behavior)
Martine Agassi
Manufacturer: Free Spirit Publishing
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HANDS ARE NOT FOR HITTING BB

Customer Reviews:

Great Book!.......2007-10-08

This is a really great book. When my 2 year old daughter started hitting, my daycare provider suggested this book. My daughter loved reading it at bedtime and her hitting has stopped! Now she will reminder other, "Hands are not for hitting".

Hands are not for Hitting.......2007-09-27

Hands Are Not for Hitting This book approaches the problem of toddlers hitting others and pets with imagination. Children find it fun and enjoy trying to find other things they can do with their hands without hitting. This would be a good book in an infant school library and is for anyone who interacts with toddlers on a daily basis. Will help positive development with social skills. Highly recommended for mums, dads and grandparents.

My kids like it a lot.......2007-08-23

My kids like this book a lot. They each have a favorite page of the book, they fight over it, and they like to have it read to them. It is sturdy construction, and has not yet been destroyed or even seriously injured. On the downside, I wish that there was a better link between the words and the pictures, so that I could more easily go from reading the few words to pointing out something about the illustrations.

good, but too wordy.......2007-08-06

This is a good book, based on the whole series. But to me, and my 28 month old son, it is too wordy. I have cut out a lot of it and picked out my own main points that deal with his behavior problems and left out a lot of other stuff. I think the board book would be better, like the others I have (Teeth Are Not for Biting and Feet Are Not for Kicking). Maybe would be better for older kids. But I still like the concept and he still enjoys it, just not as much as the other two.

Disappointed in board book version.......2007-06-09

A previous reviewer had mentioned that the original book is more in depth, so maybe I should have opted for that version, as I was disappointed in the board book's lack of content. It tells what hands are used for, and adds in "hands are not for hitting" occasionally, but doesn't even touch on why we don't hit.

On the plus side, the book is nicely illustrated, has wonderful warm colors, and even has a small section with helpful hints for parents/caregivers on how to help your toddler deal with frustration.

Average customer rating:

Unfortunate visual quality
LOVE THIS BOOK
Looks like they slapped this together in 15 minutes
Too Simple
A Must Have Book for Everyone Who Has A Heart

Best Friends (Owen And Mzee)
Isabella Hatkoff , and Craig Hatkoff and Dr. Paula Kahumbu
Manufacturer: Scholastic Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Board book

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ASIN: 0439928729

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This is the true story of two great friends: a baby hippo named Owen and a giant tortoise named Mzee. In December 2004 a frightened young hippo, separated from his family by the devastating tsunami in Southeast Asia, adopted an 130-year-old tortoise as his "mother." And the tortoise remarkably accepted the baby hippo as his own. Owen and Mzee are now inseparable and their story has captured hearts everywhere. With bold photographs from the original book and new simple, sweet text, Owen and Mzee is perfect for young children and families.

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Unfortunate visual quality.......2007-10-16

Knowing that board book publishing is big business right now might go a long way to explain why this book has such poor quality graphics. This looks as though it was thrown together quickly to make a few dollars before the interest in Owen and Mzee evaporates. This is unfortunate because the book's length and sweet, simple text make the story accessible to very young children who would enjoy the real life tale of friendship and affection.

LOVE THIS BOOK.......2007-05-13

This is a wonderful book for young children about friendship. It uses two animals for the story line which gets the children hooked automatically. Great way to talk about what it is to be a good friend.

Looks like they slapped this together in 15 minutes.......2007-04-26

The two stars are a gimme for how cute this story is, but blech, who put this book together? The pictures look like they were snapped with a dirty Instamatic from a mile away, and the colors are totally off (most have the faded, browned-out look of my photos from the 70's, and a few are wildly over-saturated, with poor Owen looking like a sunburnt pig). Okay, so my kid doesn't care, but the adults who made this book should.

Too Simple.......2007-03-05

Note that this book is the simplified version for babies and toddlers. It is NOT the more complex book (with the green cover) that is for older children. In my mind, there are too FEW words, even for a baby book. Also, the pictures are not very clear, often fuzzy. But it is cute to look at.

A Must Have Book for Everyone Who Has A Heart.......2007-02-16

This book will touch you in so many ways. I believe it will touch everyone who can understand the vocabulary, which would be as a read aloud all the way down to 4 yr. old, and if a parent wanted to paraphrase, probably down to 2 years old. The pictures really also tell the story, they are all real photos. It is a true story . The relationship developed between these 2 creatures is actually like a miracle. No one would ever ever have predicted that it could or would happen, so I think it gives a real heart message that there always is hope, the world has lots of good still in it (like when they worked so hard to save Owen). It says that on this planet, there is someone or something you can have a very loving relationship with that will make your life so special and it might be something or someone you could never imagine in your wildest dreams. HOpe is eternal because of love.

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my daughter likes it

Best-Ever Big Sister
Karen Katz
Manufacturer: Grosset & Dunlap
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0448439158

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Babies sure have a lot of growing up to do! They can't eat with a fork, sleep in a real bed, poop on a potty, ride a trike, or read a book. On every sweet lift-the-flap spread, Karen Katz's illustrations celebrate the varied accomplishments of older siblings who may be in need of a little ego-stroking after a new baby's arrival! Each book ends on a warm, loving note with the older child reassuring the baby that "one day you'll be big like me."

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my daughter likes it.......2007-08-05

My 3 yo likes this book about being the best big sister ever- i have to adapt it when i read it as its all about being a big sister to a little sister and we have a newborn boy.
Also some of the things my daughter cant do yet- for example one page says My sister poopies in her diaper but I poopy on the potty... well, my daughter doesnt do that yet. A couple of other things too I have to adapt- but she does ask for this book frequently.

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