Showing titles in Children's Studies

In The Invisible Toolbox, Kim shares with parents the single most important thing they can do to foster their child's future-learning potential and nurture the parent-child bond that is the foundation for a child's motivation to learn. She is convinced that the simple act of reading aloud has a far-reaching impact that few of us fully understand and that the importance of that act has recently been further occluded by our nearly universal saturation in technology. 

Help kids cultivate real, lasting confidence. In Kid Confidence, a clinical psychologist and parenting expert offers practical, evidence-based parenting strategies to help children build satisfying relationships, embrace personal growth, and discover the freedom that comes with a quiet ego - a deeply rooted sense of competence, confidence, and compassion for oneself and others.

Despite a perfect storm of hostile forces that are robbing children of a healthy childhood, courageous parents and teachers who know what’s best for children are turning the tide. Johann Christoph Arnold, whose books on education, parenting, and relationships have helped more than a million people through life’s challenges, draws on the stories and voices of parents and educators on the ground, and a wealth of personal experience.

In "the best book about the current state of girls and young women in America” (Atlantic), the New York Times-bestselling pediatrician outlines the four biggest threats to girls' psychological growth and how parents can help Girls today are motivated and hardworking. In school, they regularly...

Now a major film, the book that exposed the scandal of Britain's forgotten and abused child migrants. In 1986 Margaret Humphreys, a Nottingham social worker, investigated a woman's claim that, aged four, she had been put on a boat to Australia by the British government. At first incredulous...

Between 1819 and 1845, as veterans of the Revolutionary War were filing applications to receive pensions for their service, the government was surprised to learn that many of the soldiers were not men but boys, many of whom were under the age of 16 and some even as young as nine. In Boy Soldiers of the American Revolution, Caroline Cox reconstructs the lives and stories of this young subset of early American soldiers, focusing on how these boys came to join the army and what they actually did in service.

Never Let Go is a supportive and practical guide for parents looking after a child with a mental illness. Suzanne Alderson understands the agonising struggle of bringing a child back from the brink of suicide, having spent three years supporting her own daughter through recovery. Her method of 'partnering, not parenting' has now helped thousands of other parents through her charity, Parenting Mental Health.

An estimated 800,000 children are reported missing each year in the United States. Only one in 10,000 are found dead. Yet unsolved child murders are almost a daily occurrence - of nearly 52,000 juvenile homicides between 1980 and 2008, more than 20 percent remain open. Drawing on FBI reports, police and court records, and interviews with victims’ families, this book provides details and evidence for 18 unsolved cases from 1956 to 1998. 

A candid and riveting memoir from the founder of Harlem Children's Zone, taking readers through his Canada in which violence stalked every street corner. Long before the avalanche of praise for his work—from Oprah Winfrey, from President Bill Clinton, from President Barack Obama—long before...

An important, hopeful book that looks at the urgent problem of childhood malnutrition worldwide and the revolutionary progress being made to end it. A healthy Earth requires healthy children. Yet nearly one-fourth of the world’s children are stunted physically and mentally due to a lack of...

An accessible blueprint to embolden our daughters to be critical thinkers, fearless doers, and joyful change agents for our future—from the proud mother of teen activist Marley Dias, founder of 1000BLACKGIRLBOOKS. “A stunning and pathbreaking how-to guide and memoir for every mom, dad, or...

يمر الإنسان منذ ولادته بعدة مراحل عمرية، يحمل كل منها سمة غالبة على الأفعال والسلوكيات والممارسات، سواء كان ذلك في المجال العام والخاص. ففي الطفولة يرتبط الإنسان بوالديه ارتباطًا كبيرًا، وتوجَّه أفعاله تربويًا، ويكون حيز الفعل الذاتي ضيقًا إلى حد كبير. أما مرحلة الشباب فهي أكثر المراحل العمرية حيوية ونشاطًا، تظهر فيها علامات النضوج النفسي والعقلي والجسماني على الإنسان.

Todo el país se volcó con Jonathan Conyers después de que su inspiradora historia se volvió viral, recaudó millones en donaciones para la Brooklyn Debate League (Liga de Debate de Brooklyn), y conquistó el corazón de Estados Unidos. El niño que llegó a la escuela con dificultades para leer terminó convirtiéndose en la revelación de su equipo de debate del bachillerato gracias a una amistad que formó con su entrenador de debate, una persona transgénero, que marcó su vida para siempre.

An American Girl Anthology: Finding Ourselves in the Pleasant Company Universe turns American Girl dolls―and the ever-growing ecosystem surrounding them―inside out. Editors Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler and KC Hysmith, along with an expansive list of contributors, explore Pleasant Company...

Stories of hope, love and compassion from a bygone era of Singapore's historyLittle Drops: Cherished Children of Singapore’s Past is a compilation of biographies based on historical fact about the pain of separation and the lure of love, and how these themes constantly collide. These...

Das deutsche Schulsystem steht am Abgrund: marode Gebäude, veraltete Lehrpläne, ungleiche Chancen, überforderte Kinder und ausgebrannte Lehrer. Schonungslos zeigt Silke Müller in ihrem neuen Hörbuch, wie Schule Kindern die Lebenschancen raubt und fordert ein radikales Umdenken. Mit ihren visionären Ideen verlangt Silke Müller nach einer Reform, die Schulen endlich menschlich, gerecht und zukunftssicher macht.

Sisters Emme, Holly and Jess – are off to Paris with their parents, exchanging homes with a French family for a month. The girls are having a brilliant time exploring the city, until disaster strikes and they have to track down their host family's precious pet octopus, who someone seems to have let out accidentally...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 ORWELL PRIZE The remarkable story of a unique series of studies that have touched the lives of almost everyone in Britain today In March 1946, scientists began to track thousands of children born in one cold week. No one imagined that this would become the longest-running...

Daniel just wants someone he can rely on… With his parents in and out of prison, Daniel has spent the last three years in a children’s home, feeling forgotten and with nowhere to truly belong. When he arrives at Casey and Mike’s, his challenging and unpredictable behaviour soon reveals a...

In 1902, Morris and Rose Michtom invented the Teddy Bear in the back room of their Brooklyn candy store. Together they launched the Ideal Toy Corporation, joining a set of other poor, first-generation Jewish toymakers. Playmakers reveals how the toy industry created the idealized American childhood: an enchanted world, full of wild creatures and eternal struggles between good and evil, with endless realms of fantasy and beauty.