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All the Colors

This CD contains 14 songs by local singer, songwriter Ira Marlowe

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Children's Books

A Book for Honey Bear: Reading Keeps the Sighs Away

When a baby bear gets sick, the doctor prescribes her a homespun remedy of reading a book twenty minutes every day.

Abby's Asthma and the Big Race

Abby is practicing for the big race, but she is worried that her asthma will stop her from winning. Includes doctor's note on asthma and exercise.

Alexander and His Pals Visit the Main Street School

Take a bus trip with Alexander and his friends as they travel to the Main Street School to teach children about food allergies. Learn important rules that will help you to take care of your food allergies!

Alexander Goes Out to Eat

This children's book is about Alexander the elephant, who is allergic to peanuts, going to eat at a restaurant and the precautions he must. It discusses the issues and emotions involved in having a food allergy in simple and understandable terms.

Alexander Goes to a Birthday Party

In this children's book, Alexander the elephant, who is allergic to peanuts, learns how to politely refuse foods that might cause an allergic reaction and how to watch out for himself. This book deals with the emotions that might occur when dealing with

Alexander Goes Trick-or-Treating

In this children's book, Alexander the elephant goes trick-or-treating and learns to look at food ingredients to avoid his food allergy.

Alexander Learns His Lesson

In this children's book, Alexander the elephant learns his lesson when he eats food that affects his food allergy. This book discusses the dangers of doing so, and the actions that follow.

All About Allergies

Child's storybook about allergies from the AAAAI

All About Asthma

Children's storybook about asthma from The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.

All About Food and Insect Sting Allergies

This colorful book is written for kids who have food and insect sting allergies. It tells the story of Miguel, who is allergic to peanuts, and Lindsey, who is allergic to bees. The book will help kids understand how to control their allergies.

All About My Brother

Written by eight year-old Sarah Peralta, this book offers a child's perspective about her brother's autism and offers advice for other children on how to cope as well as understanding the condition.

Apple Patty Patches

This book is written by an author who has helped hundreds of children and their parents with the difficult task of occlusion therapy.

Arthur's Chicken Pox

This is an easy to read book that talks about chicken pox.

Arthur's Tooth

Arthur, tired of being the only one in his class who still has all his baby teeth, waits impatiently for his loose tooth to fall out.

Barney Meets the New Baby

Discusses the joy of being an elder sibling.

Before You Were Born

This book about pregnancy tells the parallel story of mother and baby, from hearing the thumpity-thump of baby's heartbeat to that unforgettable first meeting.

Berenstain Bears Go To The Doctor, The

Dr. Grizzly gives the Berenstain cubs a regular checkup.

Berenstain Bears' New Baby, The

Easy to read book that talks about bringing home a new baby.

Blueberry Eyes

This book is a developmental model for parents and children to use as they negotiate life's changes, whether that change is an illness, a loss, or a surgery.

Busy Body Book, The

An introduction to the human body, how it functions, and its need for exercise.

Chewy, Gooey, Rumble, Plop! A Deliciously Disgusting Plop-Up Guide to The Digestive System

Humans are hollow! Yes—you are basically just a tube, with a hole at each end. Food goes in one hole and . . . something else comes out of the other. But what goes on in between? This cleverly constructed pop-up book brings the gross, squelchy secrets of

Chris Gets Ear Tubes

This children's book describes the experience of a young boy whose chronic ear infections are affecting his hearing, until he goes into the hospital for a simple operation.

Corduroy Goes to the Doctor

This book talks about a child having a check-up, letting the doctor listen to his heart, and letting the doctor look at his eyes and ears.

Curious George Goes to the Hospital

A curious monkey goes to the hospital after swallowing a piece of jigsaw puzzle.

Di"aaaa" Dora va al medico

Dora visits the doctor for a check-up, and the doctor listens to her heartbeat, weighs and measures her, and looks in her eyes, ears, and throat.

Dinosaurs Alive and Well - A Guide to Good Health

This book gives young children a head start on establishing healthy habits that will last a lifetime. In addition, the book includes tips on how to exercise your body and your mind and much more.

Dinosaurs Beware - A Safety Guide

This book helps you teach children safety rules in a easy way. It is a genuinely funny and engaging safety book.

Dinosaurs Divorce - A Guide for Changing Families

This book will help children understand divorce words and what they mean, why parents divorce, living with one parent and much more.

Edible Pyramid, The

In this book, the customers at The Edible Pyramid restaurant learn healthful ways to eat.

Elmo's Breakfast Bingo

Here's one simple and imaginative way to get your kids - and the whole family! - eating to start every day the right way!

Fall of Freddie The Leaf - A Story of Life For All Ages, The

This book touches children and adults alike, illustrating the delicate balance between life and death.

Franklin Va Al Hospital

Franklin's shell has cracked, and he needs to be a brave turtle when it's time to go to the hospital

Germs Make Me Sick

Explains how bacteria and viruses affect the human body and how the body fights them

Germs Make Me Sick!

This is a Let's Read and Find Out Science Book for young children.

Glasses for D.W.

Marc Brown's funny story is easy to read and comes with picture stickers galore. Here is an exciting new way to help beginners get in step with reading and at the same time try their hand at creative writing.

Good Enough to Eat - A Kid's Guide to Food and Nutrition

This book is the guide to kids' nutrition written especially for kids. It's a practical, hands-on tool for families who want to eat a healthy diet.

Good-Bye Tonsils

A young girl describes what happens when she goes to the hospital to have her tonsils removed

Gregory, the Terrible Eater

A very picky eater, Gregory the goat refuses the usual goat diet staples of shoes and tin cans in favor of fruits, vegetables, eggs, and orange juice

Guess Who Needs Glasses?

This picture book takes children and their parents through the experience of an eye exam, allaying their fears about glasses while addressing their concerns-all in a fun and kidlike way.

Happy, Healthy Monsters - Elmo's Breakfast Bingo

Eating right, keeping fit, and getting enough sleep are all basic components of healthy living, but they sometimes seem tough to tackle on a daily basis. The books in this series are filled with easy and practical tips that will help you and your little

Healthy Body Cookbook, The

Over 50 fun activities and delicious recipes for kids.

Honest Pretzels

In this book, the author speaks directly to children through 65 fully kid-tested, illustrated recipes that require some, but not a lot of, adult assistance. This book is not only about making food, but also about practicing reading, math, and logic skills

How Are You Peeling?

Simple rhyming text and bright array of emotional produce make this the perfect introduction to the complex world of feelings for children.

I Used to Be the Baby

This book is the story of a sibling who suddenly finds himself with a baby brother. This is a easy to read book for older siblings.

I wish I had Glasses like Rosa

Abby will try anything to wear glasses like Rosa does, then realizes she might have something that is just as desirable

I'm a Big Sister

With charm and sensitivity, the author celebrates the warmth and security of family and home - from a big sister's perspective.

It's Time to Learn About Diabetes

This is a workbook on diabetes for children.

Keeping a Secret

In this book, the author helps children understand their symptoms and cope with the consequences of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA).

Kid-Friendly Food Allergy Cookbook, The

More than 150 recipes that are wheat-free, gluten-free, dairy-free, nut-free, egg-free and/or low in sugar.

Kim Goes to Camp

In this children's book, Kim, a girl with food allergies, learns how to deal with eating with food allergies away from home and taking care of herself.

Kim Learns How to Take Care of Herself

In this children's book, Kim, a girl with food allergies and eczema learns how to take care of herself, eat to avoid affecting her allergy and how to deal with a classmate's teasing.

Lenny Learns About Food Labels

In this children's book, Lenny the lion learns about food labels and how to look at the label to avoid ingredients that will affect his allergy to milk.

Lions Aren't Scared of Shots

This book offers parents advice and tips for encouraging their child to feel comfortable and brave with routine checkups, sick visits, shots, and other medical procedures.

Long and The Short of It, The

This book follows the stories of Isabel and Emma; two girls with "hair problems." One wants her hair to be longer; the other has lost her hair because of cancer treatment and would just like it back. Each girl's experience leads her to a new understanding.

Monster Health Book, The

This book is a guide to eating healthy, being active, and feeling great for monsters and kids.

My Friend Has Down Syndrome

Item donated by Silicon Valley Down Syndrome Network

My Friend Isabelle

Item donated by Silicon Valley Down Syndrome Network

My Sister Rose Has Diabetes

Discusses the management of Type I diabetes, highlighting the issues of those without diabetes who sometimes feel forgotten in a family preoccupied with this chronic condition.

Natalie's Lice Aren't Nice!

Natalie learns that lice can happen to anyone, and shares her real life story about having lice.

New Baby at Your House, The

This classic book has helped thousands of families to pull together as they talk about what to expect when the new baby comes home.

New Baby, The

This children's story presents the idea the new baby takes some getting used to, but she's worth it.

Oh, the Things You Can Do that are Good for You

The Cat in the Hat takes children to the Feeling Great Clinic, where they learn about exercise, germs, healthy eating, and playing safely.

On Your Mark, Get Set, Grow

Once Upon a Potty (For Her)

Explains in simple text and illustrations why and how a little girl uses a potty.

Once Upon a Potty (For Him)

Your child will be empowered by Joshua as he learns to use his new potty.

Open Wide

This is a fact-filled, sure-fire, kid-centric introduction to dental health.

Otto Learns About His Medicine

Otto, a fidgety young car that has trouble paying attention in school, visits a special mechanic who prescribes a medicine to control his hyperactive behavior.

Our Immune System

Peanut Butter Jam, The

This book hopes to help readers better understand the seriousness of food-allergies.

Pretend Soup

The authors bring the grown-up world of real cooking to a child's level. Young children can become head chef while an adult serves as guide and helper.

Princess and the Peanut, The

A children's book for any parent of a child with a food allergy. This is a lighthearted, entertaining and sweet way to help both a parent and child cope and raise awareness of the reality of having a food allergy.

Salad People

With the help of this book, children as young as three can roll up their sleeves and cook real food with pleasure and pride.

Science Experiments You Can Eat

Transform your kitchen into a laboratory. These science experiments have a quick and easy way to clean up at the end of the day...eat them!

Storm in my Brain, The

A children's book addressing kids and mood disorders, such as depression and bipolar disorder.

Those Mean Nasty Dirty Downright Disgusting but… Invisible Germs

A little girl, who accumulates germs on her hands during her busy day, defeats them by washing her hands before meals.

What a Baby Needs

This is a book that takes a warm look at how life in the family changes to accommodate the needs of a newborn.

What Mommies Do Best

This book talks about how a mother can teach her child to ride a bike, sew a loose button on the teddy bear, and read a cozy bedtime story.

What to Expect When the New Baby Comes Home

Answers questions about what the new babies look like, what they do and don't do, and what having one around the house will be like.

What to Expect When You Go to the Doctor

Everyone needs to go to the doctor for checkups and for a child who doesn't understand what staying healthy means and why it's important, a visit to the doctor can be a bewildering experience. This book can provide you with answers to your child's questio

Why I Cough, Sneeze, Shiver, Hiccup & Yawn

This is a Let's Read and Find Out Science Book for young children.

You Can't Make a Move Without Your Muscles

This is a Let's Read and Find Out Science Book for young children about muscles and how they work.

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Medical Reference Texts

Atlas of Pediatric Physical Diagnosis

This text provides a complete guide to anatomic signs and laboratory and radiologic findings for pediatric disorders.

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Printed Material

A Book for Honey Bear: Reading Keeps the Sighs Away

When a baby bear gets sick, the doctor prescribes her a homespun remedy of reading a book twenty minutes every day.

Abby's Asthma and the Big Race

Abby is practicing for the big race, but she is worried that her asthma will stop her from winning. Includes doctor's note on asthma and exercise.

ADHD & Me: what I learned from lighting fires at the dinner table

The author was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of five. In this book, which he wrote during his last two years in high school, the author shares how he learned to live with both the good and bad sides of life with ADHD. This book provides information and

ADHD: A Complete and Authoritative Guide

Many important topics are addressed in this book, including the diagnostic process, behavior therapy, medication, and advice on management techniques for school and home.

Adolescent Depression: A Guide for Parents

In Adolescent Depression: A Guide for Parents, Johns Hopkins psychiatrist Francis Mondimore helps parents understand that serious depression in adolescents is an illness - an illness that can be effectively treated. He describes the many forms of depress

Alexander and His Pals Visit the Main Street School

Alexander Goes Out to Eat

Alexander Goes to a Birthday Party

Alexander Goes Trick-or-Treating

In this children's book, Alexander the elephant goes trick-or-treating and learns to look at food ingredients to avoid his food allergy.

Alexander Learns His Lesson

In this children's book, Alexander the elephant learns his lesson when he eats food that affects his food allergy. This book discusses the dangers of doing so, and the actions that follow.

All About Allergies

Child's storybook about allergies from the AAAAI

All About Asthma

Children's storybook about asthma from The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.

All About My Brother

Written by eight year-old Sarah Peralta, this book offers a child's perspective about her brother's autism and offers advice for other children on how to cope as well as understanding the condition.

Apple Patty Patches

This book is written by an author who has helped hundreds of children and their parents with the difficult task of occlusion therapy.

Arthur's Chicken Pox

This is an easy to read book that talks about chicken pox.

Arthur's Tooth

Arthur, tired of being the only one in his class who still has all his baby teeth, waits impatiently for his loose tooth to fall out.

Atlas of Pediatric Physical Diagnosis

This text provides a complete guide to anatomic signs and laboratory and radiologic findings for pediatric disorders.

Babies With Down Syndrome: A New Parent's Guide

Comprehensive, compassionate guide offering information and support for the new parents of a child with Down Syndrome. Covers a wide range of topics from emotions to health concerns to legal issues.

Item donated by Silicon Valley Down Syndrome Network

Baby Book, The

Features information on every aspect of infant care, including the treatment of illnesses and infant nutritional requirements, and focuses on a baby's five needs: eating, sleeping, development, health, and comfort.

Baby Proofing Basics

This practical guide contains childproofing tips for every room in the house and for outdoors, backyard, beach, camping, hiking, and travel of all kinds. It provides illustrations and information on children’s safety at playtime, mealtime, and holidays, a

Baking Soda

Baking soda gets its due in this fun collection gathered by Vicki Lansky and her readers over more than twenty years. From making an omelets extra fluffy or deodorizing those musty household smells, to improving flossing and mouth freshness or washing cla

Barney Meets the New Baby

Discusses the joy of being an elder sibling.

Bebes con sindrome de Down

This new edition incorporates the latest scientific, medical, educational research, and practical information available, as well as parents suggestions and feedback. Existing chapters have been revised, some completely rewritten by new authors, and in keeping with its parent-friendly reputation, most of the book's contributors are parents of children with Down syndrome.

Item donated by Silicon Valley Down Syndrome Network

Before You Were Born

This book about pregnancy tells the parallel story of mother and baby, from hearing the thumpity-thump of baby's heartbeat to that unforgettable first meeting.

Berenstain Bears Go To The Doctor, The

Dr. Grizzly gives the Berenstain cubs a regular checkup.

Berenstain Bears' New Baby, The

Easy to read book that talks about bringing home a new baby.

Best feeding: Getting Breastfeeding Right for You

The author uses pictures to demonstrate techniques, checklists, and lots of basic information and problem-solving.

Best Friends, Worst Enemies

From the bestselling coauthor of "Raising Cain" comes a pathbreaking new bookabout the intricacies of children's friendships.

Blueberry Eyes

This book is a developmental model for parents and children to use as they negotiate life's changes, whether that change is an illness, a loss, or a surgery.

Body Basics: Body Works - A Toolkit for Healthy Girls & Strong Women

BodyWorks is a toolkit for parents and other adult caregivers of young teen girls. BodyWorks is designed to help your family make healthy eating choices and become more physically active.

Body Drama

Written in a language young women understand and through photos of real young women, this book addresses the many faces of normal and what women's bodies naturally go through.

Brain Rules for Baby

Insructs parents on raising intelligent and emotionally stable children, from newborns to toddlers, by encouraging healthy brain activity and development and debunking traditional and contemporary "brain-boosting" methods.

Item donated by Silicon Valley Down Syndrome Network

Busy Body Book, The

An introduction to the human body, how it functions, and its need for exercise.

Caring for your Baby and Young Child Birth to Age 5

This book provides information on how to care for a child from birth through age five. Includes resources such as: a basic emergency medical manual; a health encyclopedia for illnesses, injuries, congenital diseases and other disabilities; emotional, soc

Caring for Your Premature Baby

The premature birth of a baby often takes parents by surprise, leaving them unprepared for he puzzling emotions and medical complications that may follow early deliveries. This book is a comprehensive look at everything from state of the art medical infor

Caring for Your School-Age Child: Ages Five to Twelve

This book provides information on caring for a school-age child, such as: your school-age child's physical, emotional, and intellectual growth, what's normal and what's not; evaluating your child's readiness to begin school; keeping your child safe from i

CDC Parent Resource Kit

Chewy, Gooey, Rumble, Plop! A Deliciously Disgusting Plop-Up Guide to The Digestive System

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Children with Special Needs

A collection of inspirational true stories about the joys and challenges of working with, parenting, and being around children with special needs.

Item donated by Silicon Valley Down Syndrome Network

Child Behavior

Child Behavior offers the basics of child development, addressing exactly how children's bodies can affect their behavior. The authors advise parents on how they can prevent many common and more serious behavior problems.

Child Behavior: The Classic Child Manual

This book discusses the basics of child development, addressing exactly how children's bodies can affect their behavior. The authors discuss what to do to treat specific behavior problems and advise parents on how, in many instances, they can prevent many

Child of Mine: Feeding with Love and Good Sense

This book covers child nutrition. The author discusses topics such as: breast or bottle; eating right during pregnancy; solid foods for your baby; avoiding food fights with your toddler; and preventing obesity and eating disorders.

Chris Gets Ear Tubes

This children's book describes the experience of a young boy whose chronic ear infections are affecting his hearing, until he goes into the hospital for a simple operation.

Communicate With Your Child

Based on the 25 year ECO Language Intervention project, this book presents easy to use guides for helping children in critical stages of development.

Item donated by Silicon Valley Down Syndrome Network

Cooking for Baby

Wholesome, homemade, delicious foods for 6-18 months.

Corduroy Goes to the Doctor

This book talks about a child having a check-up, letting the doctor listen to his heart, and letting the doctor look at his eyes and ears.

Cough in Your Shirt, Bert

Count Us In

Authors share their experiences of growing up with Down syndrome.

Item donated by Silicon Valley Down Syndrome Network

Curious George Goes to the Hospital

A curious monkey goes to the hospital after swallowing a piece of jigsaw puzzle.

Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence

The Curse of the Good Girl is a new, essential guide to modern girl culture. Author Rachel Simmons challenges the reader to change how we we raise our young girls to empower and enlighten them in this contemporary environment.

Delivered from Distraction

Attention deficit disorder, the authors point out, is a misleading description of an intriguing kind of mind. Original, charismatic, energetic, often brilliant, people with ADD have extraordinary talents and gifts embedded in their highly charged but easi

Di"aaaa" Dora va al medico

Dora visits the doctor for a check-up, and the doctor listens to her heartbeat, weighs and measures her, and looks in her eyes, ears, and throat.

Difficult Child, The

This book offers advice on raising a temperamentally difficult child. It includes information on how to identify your child's difficult temperament; manage typical conflict situations expertly and kindly; make discipline more effective and get better resu

Dinosaurs Alive and Well - A Guide to Good Health

This book gives young children a head start on establishing healthy habits that will last a lifetime. In addition, the book includes tips on how to exercise your body and your mind and much more.

Dinosaurs Beware - A Safety Guide

This book helps you teach children safety rules in a easy way. It is a genuinely funny and engaging safety book.

Dinosaurs Divorce - A Guide for Changing Families

This book will help children understand divorce words and what they mean, why parents divorce, living with one parent and much more.

Disney Encyclopedia of Baby and Child Care: Vol. 2 -- A-Z Encyclopedia of Child Health and Illness

This book contains an A to Z Encyclopedia of Child Health and Illness, with over 160 entries. Includes information on prevention, symptoms, and detection and when to call the doctor, and what treatments are available.

Divorce Book for Parents

This book is for parents going through divorce. It addresses how to help their children through this difficult time. Information includes: How to break the news; what age-related behaviors to expect; preparing for departure day; custody, money and legalit

Dr. Sears' LEAN Kids: Lifestyles Exercise Attitude Nutrition

This book provides a clear and positive message to help parents and children adopt a total health program. Principles of good nutrition and physical activity are presented, along with specific tips for dealing with school situations, birthday parties, and

Early Communication Skills for Children with Down Syndrome

A guide to maximizing the communication development of children with Down syndrome that focuses on speech and language development from birth through age five.

Item donated by Silicon Valley Down Syndrome Network

Edible Pyramid, The

In this book, the customers at The Edible Pyramid restaurant learn healthful ways to eat.

Elmo's Breakfast Bingo

Here's one simple and imaginative way to get your kids - and the whole family! - eating to start every day the right way!

Expectant Father: Facts, Tips, and Advice for Dads-to-Be, The

An information-packed, month-by-month guide to all the emotional financial, and yes, even physical changes the father-to-be may experience during the course of his partner's pregnancy.

Fall of Freddie The Leaf - A Story of Life For All Ages, The

This book touches children and adults alike, illustrating the delicate balance between life and death.

Fasten Your Seatbelt: a crash course on Down syndrome for brothers and sisters

Introduces the illness, how it is detected and diagnosed, current treatments, and the daily lives of individuals affected by Down syndrome, with coping advice for siblings.

Item donated by Silicon Valley Down Syndrome Network

Feeding Your Child for Lifelong Health

Topics discussed include how foods optimize a baby's development, IQ, bone strength, and immunity, food solutions for common problems, how to deal with food allergies or obesity and ways to adapt family meals for kids.

Fine Motor Skills for Children with Down Syndrome

Item donated by Silicon Valley Down Syndrome Network

Fit Kids

This book provides all the answers you need to know on encouraging good nutrition and an active lifestyle for your child.

Food Fights: Winning the Nutritional Challenges of Parenthood Armed With Insight, Humor, and a Bottle of Ketchup

Knowing what to feed children is one thing. Getting them to eat it is quite another! In Food Fights, the authors bring together the science of nutrition with the practical insight of parents who have been in your shoes - offering simple solutions for yo

Franklin Va Al Hospital

Franklin's shell has cracked, and he needs to be a brave turtle when it's time to go to the hospital

Germs Make Me Sick

Explains how bacteria and viruses affect the human body and how the body fights them

Germs Make Me Sick!

This is a Let's Read and Find Out Science Book for young children.

Gifts: Mothers Reflect on How Children with Down Syndrome Enrich Their Lives

The case studies of those who find themselves with a child having Down Syndrome.

Item donated by Silicon Valley Down Syndrome Network

Glasses for D.W.

Good Enough to Eat - A Kid's Guide to Food and Nutrition

This book is the guide to kids' nutrition written especially for kids. It's a practical, hands-on tool for families who want to eat a healthy diet.

Good-Bye Tonsils

A young girl describes what happens when she goes to the hospital to have her tonsils removed

Gregory, the Terrible Eater

A very picky eater, Gregory the goat refuses the usual goat diet staples of shoes and tin cans in favor of fruits, vegetables, eggs, and orange juice

Gross Motor Skills in Children with Down Syndrome

This guide illustrates more than 100 activities for parents and professionals to practice with children with Down Syndrome from birth through age six.

Item donated by Silicon Valley Down Syndrome Network

Guess Who Needs Glasses?

This picture book takes children and their parents through the experience of an eye exam, allaying their fears about glasses while addressing their concerns-all in a fun and kidlike way.

Guia para Padres (Parents Guide)

Guide to Your Child's Allergies and Asthma

This book by the American Academy of Pediatrics is a guide to childhood asthma and allergies, which , combined, affect nearly 55 million American children. It provides information on how to identify allergies and asthma; prevent attacks; minimize triggers

Guide to Your Child's Nutrition

The real challenge for parents isn't simply knowing about the right foods to feed their children, but getting their children to actually eat those foods. This book guides parents through information and strategies they need to meet their children's nutrit

Guide to Your Child's Sleep

This is a guide from the American Academy of Pediatrics on sleep problems from birth through adolescence. It addresses surviving the first few months; getting your baby to sleep through the night; solving everyday problems and bedtime battles so the whole

Guide to Your Child's Symptoms: Birth Through Adolescence

An A-to-Z directory from the American Academy of Pediatrics of more than one hundred common childhood symptoms with action charts for parents to help determine how best to proceed.

Happiest Toddler on the Block, The

Using a stage-by-stage approach, the author explains how toddler-ese will help you transform your pint-size caveman into a happy, cooperative, and secure child.

Healthy Body Cookbook, The

Over 50 fun activities and delicious recipes for kids.

Healthy Child, Whole Child

At a time when caring for your children has become increasingly complex and parents are bombarded with new and conflicting information, Doctors Ditchek and Greenfield provide authoritative and thorough advice for raising healthy kids

Healthy Habits for Healthy Kids

Healthy Lunchbox, The

This upbeat guide is full of healthy alternatives to junk food–laden lunches. Drawing on her years of experience as both an educator and a mother, Marie McLendon has created a book loaded with recipes, menus, tips, and suggestions.

Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child

Dr. Marc Weissbluth's step-by-step regime for instituting beneficial habits within the framework of your child's natural sleep cycles.

Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Twins

Help Your Young Child Think

Item donated by Silicon Valley Down Syndrome Network

Helping Children with Down Syndrome Communicate Better

This book covers the scope of speech and language issues important for children with Down Syndrome reaching the age of 6, from understanding language pragmatics to building conversation skills.

Item donated by Silicon Valley Down Syndrome Network

Helping Your Child Sleep Through the Night

Organized into specific age groups, the book guides parents through basic principles of establishing good sleeping habits. Also covers issues such as teething, colic, bed-wetting, nightmares, naps, and middle-of-the-night feedings.

Honest Pretzels

How Are You Peeling?

Simple rhyming text and bright array of emotional produce make this the perfect introduction to the complex world of feelings for children.

How to Feel Manly in a Minivan: The Desperate Dad's Survival Guide

For every guy who has wondered how he could possibly become a dad while preserving any masculinity, sanity or dignity, this practical and hilarious guide will teach you

How to Get Your Kid to Eat But Not Too Much

This book provides advice to parents on how to get their child to eat, and to eat in a healthy manner. The author answers questions such as: how much should your child eat? what is normal eating?

How to Help Children Through a Parent's Serious Illness

This practical handbook prepares parents to address children's fears, with absolute honest and profound empathy.

How to take the Grrrr Out of Anger

Filled with solid information, sound advice, and humor, this book helps kids understand anger--what it is, what it does, where it comes from, how it feels--and how to handle it in healthy, positive ways.

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk

The twentieth anniversary edition of the best-selling parenting guide includes updated information as well as the practical, sensible advice that made the book a classic to begin with.

How Your Child Heals: An Inside Look at Common Childhood Ailments

Written by a former Director of Pediatric Critical Care Service at the Mayo Clinic and Professor of Pediatrics at Mayo Medical School, this book tackles a range of childhood injuries, illnesses, and common diseases in a fun and educational way. With chapters covering health issues both basic (ear infections; allergies) and severe (cancer), parents will find a wealth of useful information laid out in a clear, easy-to-follow format. His goal is to explain in understandable language what happens in the normally functioning body, then contrast that, often at the molecular level, with what ... more

Hyperactive Child, Adolescent, and Adult, The

Attention Deficit Disorder Through the Lifespan

I Used to Be the Baby

This book is the story of a sibling who suddenly finds himself with a baby brother. This is a easy to read book for older siblings.

I wish I had Glasses like Rosa

Abby will try anything to wear glasses like Rosa does, then realizes she might have something that is just as desirable

I'm a Big Sister

With charm and sensitivity, the author celebrates the warmth and security of family and home - from a big sister's perspective.

I'm Down with You

Item donated by Silicon Valley Down Syndrome Network

Incredible 5-Point Scale, The

Item donated by Silicon Valley Down Syndrome Network

Infant Massage

Helps parents master the technique of infant massage. McClure explains each step of the massage process with simple easy-to-follow instructions.

Infants and Mothers

This newly revised edition incorporates the latest work in neonatology. In addition, it reflects on topics such as when to return to work and the excitement of nurturing fathers.

It's Not Your Fault, Koko Bear

A read-together book for parents and young children during divorce. Koko Bear can help children learn what divorce means; how to deal with change in their everyday lives; talk about their feelings; be assured that their parents still love them; and unders

It's Perfectly Normal

This book provides information for young people changing bodies, growing up and sexual health. It covers topics such as puberty, conception to birth control and AIDS.

It's Time to Learn About Diabetes

This is a workbook on diabetes for children.

Jet with Kids: Take the Fear Out of Flying With Your Kids!

Want to know the secrets to happy kids at 37,000 feet? Flying with children doesn't need to be scary, intimidating, or a nightmare. Well-behaved young travelers are a result of properly prepared parents and grandparents. Written by a traveling mom who

Just a Little Too Thin: How to Pull Your Child Back From the Brink of an Eating Disorder

Some diets are just that - a brief episode of calorie or fat counting. They're merely attempts to lose weight for the sake of a smaller skirt size. Other diets, however, can signal the kind of problem with food that has nothing to do with shape or size

Keeping a Secret

In this book, the author helps children understand their symptoms and cope with the consequences of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA).

Kid-Friendly Food Allergy Cookbook, The

More than 150 recipes that are wheat-free, gluten-free, dairy-free, nut-free, egg-free and/or low in sugar.

Kids…Get Cookin'!

KidShape: A Practical Prescription for Helping Your Child Lose Weight, Increase Self-Esteem, Establish Healthy Eating Habits, Have a More Active Life'

It's in the news: American children are too fat and this is resulting in an alarming increase in type 2 "adult onset" diabetes in children under the age of 12. Dr. Naomi Neufeld recognized this more than two decades ago when she began seeing an increasing

Kim Goes to Camp

In this children's book, Kim, a girl with food allergies, learns how to deal with eating with food allergies away from home and taking care of herself.

Kim Learns How to Take Care of Herself

In this children's book, Kim, a girl with food allergies and eczema learns how to take care of herself, eat to avoid affecting her allergy and how to deal with a classmate's teasing.

Learning to Slow Down and Pay Attention

Offers guidelines for children with ADHD to help them improve their coping skills, and includes tips and resources for parents

Lenny Learns About Food Labels

In this children's book, Lenny the lion learns about food labels and how to look at the label to avoid ingredients that will affect his allergy to milk.

Lions Aren't Scared of Shots

This book offers parents advice and tips for encouraging their child to feel comfortable and brave with routine checkups, sick visits, shots, and other medical procedures.

Long and The Short of It, The

Lunch Lessons

This book explores the current state of school nutrition programs, clarifying which foods are truly hazardous to children, and offering substitutions and positive options. This well-organized manual offers a host of surprisingly simple meal changes and easy-to-follow recipes. Other sections offer tips on getting involved locally to transform school lunch programs; the end of the book boasts a valuable resource guide with helpful websites.

Magic Years - Understanding And Handling the Problems of Early Childhood, The

The author takes the reader into the mind of the child, showing how he confronts the world and learns to cope with it. With great warmth and perception, the author discusses the problems at each stage of development.

Mayo Clinic Family Health Book

Medical & Surgical Care for Children with Down Syndrome

Item donated by Silicon Valley Down Syndrome Network

Mommy and Daddy Are Always Supposed to Say Yes...Aren't They?

Through an entertaining story for children and practical guidelines for parents, this book provides a set of tools for developing self-esteem and responsibility in our children.

Mommy Calls: Dr. Tanya Answers Parents' Top 101 Questions About Babies and Toddlers

Inspired by the questions pediatricians are most often asked, this guide provides on-the-spot, concise advice for those who are unsure about how to handle children's conditions, such as getting enough to eat and fevers after shots.

Monster Health Book, The

This book is a guide to eating healthy, being active, and feeling great for monsters and kids.

My Body, My Self for Boys

This workbook is a companion to "What's Happening to My Body for Boys", designed for eight-to-fifteen-year-olds. Uses quizzes, checklists, games, and illustrations to learn more about changes during puberty.

My Body, My Self for Girls

This workbook is a companion to "What's Happening to My Body -- Book for Girls," designed for eight- to sixteen-year-olds. Includes stories, quizzes, exercises, checklists, suggestions for diary-keeping, illustrations, and personal anecdotes about physic

My Changing Body (Boys' Edition)

This text includes everything boys need to know about growth spurts, voice changes, body hair, and their reproductive systems--along with fascinating explanations for all those other mysterious physical and emotional changes that accompany growing up

My Changing Body (Girls' Edition)

This text includes everything girls need to know about their periods, breasts, and reproductive systems--along with fascinating explanations for all those other mysterious physical and emotional changes that accompany growing up.

My Friend Has Down Syndrome

Item donated by Silicon Valley Down Syndrome Network

My Friend Isabelle

Item donated by Silicon Valley Down Syndrome Network

My Printing Book

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My Sister Rose Has Diabetes

Discusses the management of Type I diabetes, highlighting the issues of those without diabetes who sometimes feel forgotten in a family preoccupied with this chronic condition.

Natalie's Lice Aren't Nice!

Natalie learns that lice can happen to anyone, and shares her real life story about having lice.

New Baby at Your House, The

This classic book has helped thousands of families to pull together as they talk about what to expect when the new baby comes home.

New Baby, The

This children's story presents the idea the new baby takes some getting used to, but she's worth it.

New Father: A Dad's Guide to the First Year, The

This text is an indispensable, mont-by-month handbook on all aspects of fatherhood during the first year.

New Language of Toys: Teaching Communication Skills to Children with Special Needs, The

Item donated by Silicon Valley Down Syndrome Network

New Mother's Guide to Breastfeeding

Written by the American Academy of Pediatrics, this is a guide that talks about everything from preparing for the first feeding to adjusting to home, family and work life.

No More Bedwetting: How to Help Your Child Stay Dry

The author, a urologist, explains that, contrary to conventional thinking, most bedwetting is caused by underlying physical conditions which can often be corrected quickly and effectively. He dispels the mistaken and harmful notion that bedwetting is caus

No-Cry Sleep Solution for Infants, The

Through a ten-step process, the author guides you to help your baby fall asleep peacefully -and stay asleep. You will learn how to analyze, assess and improve your baby's sleep patterns using sleep logs, a variety of sleep solutions that fit your parentin

No-Cry Sleep Solution for Toddlers and Preschoolers, The

Elizabeth Pantley gives tools to help your one-to six-year-old child get in bed, stay in bed, and sleep all night by providing no-cry solutions for bedtime battles, night waking and early rising, moving from crib into big-kid bed, graduating from family b

No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night, The

A breakthrough approach for a good night's sleep--with no tears.

Nursing Mother's Companion, The

This book is a guide for women who are breastfeeding their babies. Includes topics such as: ensuring an ample milk supply; the safety of drugs during breastfeeding; preventing soreness; positions for comfort; working and nursing; all about breast pumps;

Nursing Mother's Guide To Weaning, The

This book provides advice and information for mothers weaning their children. Includes topics such as: how to wean; when to wean and when not to; weaning babies, toddlers, and older children; ensuring good nutrition; weaning to a bottle vs. a cup; mother

Nurture Shock: New Thinking about Children

Common sense redifined for our new generation. Challenges the reader to think about children in a new way. Allows the reader to look at the research and exam historical views of why we treat our children the way we do.

Oh, the Things You Can Do that are Good for You

The Cat in the Hat takes children to the Feeling Great Clinic, where they learn about exercise, germs, healthy eating, and playing safely.

On Your Mark, Get Set, Grow

Once Upon a Potty (For Her)

Explains in simple text and illustrations why and how a little girl uses a potty.

Open Wide

This is a fact-filled, sure-fire, kid-centric introduction to dental health.

Otto Learns About His Medicine

Otto, a fidgety young car that has trouble paying attention in school, visits a special mechanic who prescribes a medicine to control his hyperactive behavior.

Our Immune System

Over-Scheduled Child, The

Well-meaning parents often micro-manage their child's life and live in fear that the child will under-perform in any area- academic, social, athletics. Lists and schedules, meetings and appointments invade our every moment, and the need to be the best dom

Parent's Guide to Eating Disorders and Obesity

This book is designed as a guide for the diagnosis and treatment of eating disorders and obesity. Topics include: recognizing eating disorders and obesity; diagnosis; treatment; and recovery.

Parent's Guide to Childhood Obesity, A

Addressing medical, emotional, and psychological factors, the sensible and tested guidelines in this text help parents create balanced meals, encourage physical activity, and partner with pediatricians, family, schools, and child-care providers in their fight against obesity.

Parent's Guide to Childhood Obesity: A Road Map to Health, A

Are you worried about your child's extra weight? If so, you're not alone. Childhood obesity has reached epidemic levels in the United States, affecting more than 9 million children and teens. Being overweight can limit your child's physical activity an

Parent's Guide to Down Syndrome, A

Crossing the lifespan, this thorough volume highlights developmental stages and shows recent advances that can improve a child's quality of life. Topics covered include the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 1997; innovative services, programs, and support groups; the latest prenatal genetic testing methods; the impact of play on gross motor development; and the association of Down syndrome with other disorders.

Item donated by Silicon Valley Down Syndrome Network

Parent's Guide to Eating Disorders, The

Parent's Guide to Food Allergies (The)

This book covers what you need to know about allergy testing, information on diagnosing and treating anaphylaxis, food allergens, recipes, tips to organize an allergy safe home, how to handle allergies in school, during trips, and ways to cope with the st

Parent's Guide to Food Allergies, The

Following the guidelines established by the Food Allergy Network (FAN), this book gives in-depth information on the most common food allergies, diagnosing and treating anaphylaxis, and ways to cope with school, trips, restaurants and more. Also gives ways

Parent's Guide to Genetics & Hearing Loss, A

Parenting an Only Child: The Joys and Challenges of Raising Your One and Only

In recent years, the number of couples choosing to have one child has risen sharply. Whether it's by choice or fate, having a single child presents unique considerations, opportunities, and advantages. Social psychologist, Susan Newman, who has been stu

Parenting with Love & Logic

If you want to raise kids that who are self-confident, motivated, and ready for the real world, take advantage of this win-win approach to parenting.

Parenting Your Complex Child

This book offers a powerful system for obtaining dramatically better care for the children with one or more serious disabilities such as Down Sydrome, autism, or bipolar disorder.

Parents Guide

Peanut Butter Jam, The

This book hopes to help readers better understand the seriousness of food-allergies.

Pediatric Environmental Health

2nd Edition; includes information on a wide range of environmental health hazards.

Period Book...Everything You Don't Want to Ask (But Need to Know), The

This book is a practical guide to the questions a young girl may have about her periods. It guides her through the physical, emotional, and social changes that come with her period.

Positive Discipline for Preschoolers

Caring for young children is one of the most challenging tasks an adult will ever face. No matter how much you love your child, there will be moments filled with frustration, anger, and even desperation. There will also be questions: Why does my four-year

Positive Parenting for Bipolar Kids

Drawing from their professional experience and sharing stories of families in their practices, child psychiatrist Janet Wozniak and psychiatric nurse Mary Ann McDonnell guide you in how to navigate the "diagnosis tangle" to ensure accurate identification of the disorder, communicate effectively with doctors, teachers, and counselors, find allies and choose a treatment team, and help your family cope.

Power Parenting For Children With ADD/ADHD. A Practical Parents Guide

This is a guide to help you manage your child's difficult behaviors and enable him to adjust to home, school and beyond. Packed with Proven real life strategies for addressing the needs of the whole child. (Attention Deficit Disorder/Attention Deficit Hy

Preemies - The Essential Guide for Parents of Premature Babies

The authors answer questions that parents will have at every stage-from high-risk pregnancy through a preemie's hospitalization, to homecoming and the preschool years. The book is easy to understand as well.

Pretend Soup

The authors bring the grown-up world of real cooking to a child's level. Young children can become head chef while an adult serves as guide and helper.

Que Hacer Cuando Su Nino Se Enferme (What to do when your baby gets sick)

Queen Bees and Wannabes

This groundbreaking book takes you inside the secret world of girls' friendships, translating and decoding them so parents can better understand and help their daughters navigate through crucial years.

Quirky Kids: Understanding and Helping Your Child Who Doesn't Fit In - When to Worry and When No to Worry

From the fourth-grade girl who never gets invited to a birthday party because classmates think she's "weird," to the geek who is terrific at math but is failing every other subject, quirky children are different from other kids in ways that they - and the

Raising a Child With Diabetes

Raising a Child with Diabetes will help parents and families care for children with diabetes and help problem-solve so your child can live a normal life.

Raising Fit Kids in a Fat World

One out of five American children are severely overweight, and this trend shows no signs of stopping. This increasingly common problem is prompting parents to ask how they can protect their kids from the dangers of obesity. In this unique book, Judy Halli

Raising Self-Reliant Children in a Self-Indulgent World

This book is designed to help parents raise self-reliant children. The authors feel that parents should not use fear and intimidation, rather, they should use the maturity of feeling accountable to one's commitments (responsibility).

Raising Your Spirited Child

The spirited child - often called "difficult" or "strong-willed" - possesses traits we value in adults yet find challenging in children. Research shows that spirited kids are wired to be "more" - by temperament, they are more intense, sensitive, percepti

Salad People

With the help of this book, children as young as three can roll up their sleeves and cook real food with pleasure and pride.

Science Experiments You Can Eat

Transform your kitchen into a laboratory. These science experiments have a quick and easy way to clean up at the end of the day...eat them!

Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family

Ellyn Satter's Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family takes a leadership role in the grassroots movement back to the family table. More a cooking primer than a cookbook, this book encourages singles, couples, and families with children to go to the trouble o

Secrets of the Baby Whisperer

This book promises parents not only a healthier, happier baby but a more relaxed and happy household as well.

Secrets of the Baby Whisperer for Toddlers

This book provides a fresh and useful perspective for parents. It discusses how to communicate with your toddler and how to figure out what he/she is really thinking.

Shapedown Advanced Just for Kids!

Shapedown Advanced Parent's Guide To Supporting Your Child

Shapedown Just for Kids!

Sleepless in America

Discusses a study of the link between sleep deprivation and behavioral problems; demonstrating how sleep deficits contribute to hyperactivity, illness, forgetfulness, learning problems, and disruptive behavior in children of all ages.

Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems

Practical guide to helping your child fall asleep and stay asleep. This book includes information on the development of normal sleep and body rhythms throughout childhood.

Something Is Wrong At My House, A Book about Parent's Fighting

This book acknowledges children's feelings of anger, fear, and loneliness, offers children ways to cope and helps to break the cycle of domestic violence.

SOS Rescue Series

Storm in my Brain, The

A children's book addressing kids and mood disorders, such as depression and bipolar disorder.

Take Charge of Your Child's Sleep

This book is the essential, all-in-one guide to understanding and solving your child's sleep problems.

Taking Care of Your Child

This book give parents advice on feeding, medicines, doctor visits, discipline, and other aspects of raising a healthy child. The authors also discuss new siblings and school, and provide forms for medical, growth, and immunization records. Includes a sec

Teaching Children with Down Syndrome about Their Bodies, Boundaries and Sexuality

Item donated by Silicon Valley Down Syndrome Network

Teenagers with ADD and ADHD

This book contains expertise about ADD and ADHD and also: diagnosis, school and academics, treatments, and much more.

Ten Keys to Helping Your Child Grow Up With Diabetes, The

This is a practical book for parents and caregivers of children with diabetes that addresses in detail the psychological, social, and emotional hurdles that often complicate the lives of youngsters with diabetes.

Ten Things Every Child With Autism Wishes You Knew

Framed with both humor and compassion, the book defines the top ten characteristics that illuminare the minds and hearts of children with autism.

Textbook of Pediatrics

This book is a comprehensive guide addressing the full range of problems related to the health and welfare of children.

The Everything Parent's Guide to Children with Dyslexia

A guide for parents of children with dyslexia; offers suggestions for finding the right treatment, dealing with school issues, and helping with homework.

The Vaccine Book: Making the Right Decision for Your Child

An authoritative, open-minded guide to childhood vaccinations, providing an in-depth look at each disease/vaccine pair and covering everything you need to know.

Those Mean Nasty Dirty Downright Disgusting but… Invisible Germs

A little girl, who accumulates germs on her hands during her busy day, defeats them by washing her hands before meals.

Toddler 411

co-written by a pediatrician and a mom, this book is full of information and advice about children age 1-4. Topics include : picky eaters, toilet training, the terrible two's, normal development, and up to date, evidence-based health information.

Totally Wired: What Teens And Tweens Are Really Doing Online

A parent's guide to the world of online computing offers a helpful overview of the latest Internet technology and buzzwords that examines how children and teens are using the Internet.

Ultimate Breastfeeding Book of Answers

Although breastfeeding is the most natural and healthy way to nourish a baby, it is not always easy. Learn proper "latch" techniques; what to do if baby refuses the breast; how to deal with sore breasts, cracked nipples; breastfeeding premature or adopted

Vinegar

Vinegar is a health remedy, a neutralizer, a cleaner, a condiment, and a preservative. It can kill bacteria, mold, and germs, yet it is environmentally safe. This comprehensive guide covers all types and uses of vinegar, including how to make flavored var

Warning: Drugs In Sports, Handbook for Every Athlete and Parent

The purpose of this book is to provide basic information regarding the misuse of drugs by some athletes to enhance their performance in competitive sports and the potential dangers to which these athletes are exposing themselves.

Welcoming Your Second Baby

For parents, the thought of having a second child can be joyous, traumatic, or more likely both. It can be equally difficult for a displaced first child. With her trademark humor and practical advice, best-selling parenting author Vicki Lansky guides pare

What a Baby Needs

This is a book that takes a warm look at how life in the family changes to accommodate the needs of a newborn.

What Mommies Do Best

This book talks about how a mother can teach her child to ride a bike, sew a loose button on the teddy bear, and read a cozy bedtime story.

What To Do For Kids With Asthma

Easy to read, easy to use book that tells you if your child needs help right away, signs that your child has asthma, asthma triggers, putting together an Asthma Action Plan, peak flow meters, medicine, talking to child's teacher/daycare provider, exercise, common illnesses.

What to Do for Teen Health

This book talks about the body changes that happen to teens, how to get ready for the teen years, and about dating and sex along with many other topics for teens and parents.

What to Do When Your Child Gets Sick

Through this book, you will be provided with answers at home for your sick child. You will learn: What to look for when your child is sick, when to call the doctor, how to take your child's temperature and much more.

What To Do When Your Child is Heavy

This is an easy to read, easy to use book that tells you how to shop and pay for healthy food, deal with your child's feelings and self-esteem, healthy meals, correct portion sizes, nutrition label education, the importance of exercise, tips for eating out, and other information on diabetes and other health problems of heavy children.

What to Expect - The Toddler Years

In a direct continuation of What to Expect When You're Expecting and What to Expect the First Year, America's most trusted pregnancy and child-care books, comes an all-inclusive guide for the parents of toddlers. Complete with information on self-esteem;

What to Expect the First Year

This book includes thorough information on baby's monthly growth and development, feeding, sleeping habits, infant illnesses, and safety.

What to Expect When the New Baby Comes Home

Answers questions about what the new babies look like, what they do and don't do, and what having one around the house will be like.

What to Expect When You Go to the Doctor

What's Happening to Me?

This book is a guide to puberty for anyone experiencing it. Includes humorous illustrations.

What's Happening to My Body? Book for Boys, The

Discusses the changes that take place in a boy's body during puberty, including information on the body's changing size and shape, the growth spurt, reproductive organs, pubic hair, beards, pimples, voice changes, wet dreams, and puberty in girls.

What's Happening to My Body? Book for Girls, The

Written by an experienced educator and her daughter, this book discusses the changes that take place in a girl's body during puberty, including information on: pubic hair, breasts, reproductive organs, the menstrual cycle, and puberty in boys.

Why I Cough, Sneeze, Shiver, Hiccup & Yawn

This is a Let's Read and Find Out Science Book for young children.

Wonder of Boys, The

This practical book describes what boys need to become strong, responsible and sensitive men. The author discusses how the absence of a positive role model and adult support may lead to anti-social or criminal behavior. Gurian explains that a boy needs a

You Can't Make a Move Without Your Muscles

This is a Let's Read and Find Out Science Book for young children about muscles and how they work.

You'd Be So Pretty If...

Teaching our daughters to love their bodies - even when we don't love our own

Your Baby And Child

This is the most loved, trusted and comprehensive book in its field. This new version encompasses the latest research and thinking on child development and learning, and reflects the realities of today's changing lifestyles and new approaches to parenting

Your Baby and Child: From Birth to Age Five

This book provides information on caring for children from birth through age five. Includes topics such as: common physical problems at birth and later; feeding; height and weight; toilet training; teething; everyday care; sleeping patterns and problems;

Your Baby's First Year

This book developed by the American Academy of Pediatrics provides authoritative advice on all aspects of infant care.

Your Child

This book describes the normal developmental milestones of the child from infancy to adolescence. It addresses behaviors that are a signal to seek professional help.

Your Child's Health

This book is a guide to symptoms, emergencies, common illnesses, behavior, and school problems, organized as a reference resource.

Your Child's Weight - Helping Without Harming

In this book Ellyn Satter explains that children gain too much weight because of how, not what they are fed. The book emphasizes supporting normal growth and development-feeding well, parenting well, and letting children grow up to get bodies that are right for them.

Your Dieting Daughter: Is She Dying for Attention

The book is about every daughter caught in a struggle to accept who she is in a society. It includes distinctions between diet and disorder, information on today's most popular diet programs, a question and answer chapter on what to do when, nutritional g

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Video & DVD

A is for Asthma With Dani: A Childhood Asthma Awareness Program

A DVD for children that uses music and dialogue to help them learn about asthma. They will see how Dani, a new Sesame Street friend, keeps his asthma under control.

ABC Signs

Signing Time! DVD Volume 5

Item donated by Silicon Valley Down Syndrome Network

Adolescence: Physical Growth and Development

Adolescents, parents, teachers and doctors discuss the physical changes of adolescence. Running time: 25 minutes

Alexander, The Elephant Who Couldn't Eat Peanuts

This animated video shows children that they are not alone in having food allergies. Discusses the emotional impact of having a food allergy.

All Stressed Up and No Way to Grow

This video addresses stress in children and teenagers. Running time: 2 Hours

As a Parent: What Can I Do to Improve my Child's Feeding Skills and Speech Clarity

Item donated by Silicon Valley Down Syndrome Network

Box of Crayons

Signing Time! DVD, Series 2, Volume 12

Item donated by Silicon Valley Down Syndrome Network

CDC Developmental Milestones

Days of the Week

In this DVD you'll learn signs for the days of the week, and see what some families do on each day. You'll also learn to sign first, second, third, and so on. Signing Time! DVD, Series 2, Volume 6

Item donated by Silicon Valley Down Syndrome Network

First Days Home Keeping Your Baby Healthy and Happy

Advice for parents to keep their new baby healthy and happy their first few days at home

Great Outdoors, The

Signing Time! DVD, Volume 8

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Happiest Baby on the Block, The (DVD)

Defines the calming reflex and teaches the "5 S's", the five simple ways to turn on the calming reflex.

Happiest Toddler on the Block, The (DVD)

This DVD shows parents ways to stop tantrums and communicate effectively with their toddlers.

Home Alone and Safe

For Your Health Lecture Series presentation

I Have Tourette's But Tourette's Doesn't Have Me

This is a 27 minute documentary that dispels the myths of Tourette Syndrome through the experiences of young people. It is presented by HBO and the Tourette Syndrome Association.

Max's Magical Delivery: Fit for Kids

This is a fun, interactive DVD targeted to children ages 5-9 and their families. The DVD offers suggestions to: Try to eat five fruits and vegetables a day. Get away from the TV and computer screens and move around. Find fun ways to be physically active

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