Toddler Bargains: Secrets to Saving 20% to 50% on Toddler Furniture, Clothing, Shoes, Travel Gear, Toys and More!

Toddler Bargains: Secrets to Saving 20% to 50% on Toddler Furniture, Clothing, Shoes, Travel Gear, Toys and More! Review

Toddler Bargains: Secrets to Saving 20% to 50% on Toddler Furniture, Clothing, Shoes, Travel Gear, Toys and More! Feature

• Updated version of previous Toddler Bargains books
• Shows parents how to get the most out of their money
• Shows parents the best bets for numerous items including booster seats and lunch boxes
• Twelve chapters total
• Nearly 300 pages of information

In 2004, an estimated 4 million toddlers will take their first steps, say the word "no," and cost their parents in excess of ,000 in food, clothing, daycare, and other necessities. Toddler Bargains is for people who want the best for their little ones but don't want to pay top dollar. It lists bargains and deals on a wide range of child-related products and services, from bedroom decor to the latest toys to swimming lessons. Parents are given key information in chart form such as ratings of car booster seats, as well as toy, book, and CDROM recommendations by age. In addition, there is advice on kid-friendly destinations for family trips, safety news on a variety of items, and a list of the best bets for eating out with children. This edition has been extensively updated, with new information on websites, outlets, and freebies.

Freshwater Stingrays (Barron's Complete Pet Owner's Manuals)

Freshwater Stingrays (Barron's Complete Pet Owner's Manuals) Review

Freshwater Stingrays (Barron's Complete Pet Owner's Manuals) Feature

• AQUARIUM
• BARRON'S PUBLISHING
• BOOKS-FRESH WATER
• 897

Many stingrays are small enough for home aquariums, but hobbyists must know how to protect against stingray venom. This volume is filled with handsome, full-color photos, instructive line art, and easy-to-read tables and charts. It provides information on all aspects of pet care for new and prospective pet owners.

The Choice Guide to Baby Product: The Buying Guide For Parents

The Choice Guide to Baby Product: The Buying Guide For Parents Review

With over 60,000 copies sold, this independent guide to the best baby products on the market is packed with practical information based on extensive research and testing by CHOICE experts. A must for every new parent, this updated 13th edition includes essential information on; cots; highchairs; strollers; disposable nappies; child car restraints; baby monitors, changing accessories; toys; playpens and walkers. Useful tips boxes, green buying advice and checklists are scattered throughout. There's also advice about safety around the home and on other issues confronting new parents, such as childcare and immunisation.

The Child With Special Needs: Encouraging Intellectual and Emotional Growth (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)

The Child With Special Needs: Encouraging Intellectual and Emotional Growth (A Merloyd Lawrence Book) Review

Stanley Greenspan, internationally known for his work with infants, young children, and their families, and his colleague, nationally recognized child psychologist Serena Wieder, have for the first time integrated their award-winning research and clinical experience into a definitive guide to raising children with special needs. In this essential work they lay out a complete, step-by-step approach for parents, educators, and others who work with developmental problems. Covering all kinds of disabilities—including autism, PPD, language and speech problems, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, and ADD—the authors offer a new understanding of the nature of these challenges and also specific ways of helping children extend their intellectual and emotional potential.The authors first show how to move beyond labels to observe the unique profile—strengths and problems—of the individual child. Next, they demonstrate the techniques necessary to help the child not only reach key milestones but also develop new emotional and intellectual capacities. Greenspan’s well-known ”floortime” approach enables parents, as well as clinicians, to use seemingly playful interactions that help children actually move up the development ladder and often master creative and abstract thinking formerly thought beyond their reach. Including vivid case histories, the book also offers deep and compassionate understanding of the stresses and rewards involved in raising a child with special needs.whose amazing work with autistic and other special needs children is nationally known, and his colleague, child psychologist Serena Wieder, have integrated a lifetime of research and clinical practice into a single, comprehensive guide for parents. Covering all kinds of disabilities—including cerebral palsy, autism, retardation, ADD, PDD, and language problems—the book offers specific ways of helping all children reach their full intellectual and emotional potential.First the authors show how to move beyond the label and observe the strengths and problems of the particular child and the key milestones that must be reached. Next, they move step by step through the techniques necessary to help the child reach these milestones and show how to tailor these to each child. Finally, with a deep and compassionate understanding they outline the marital, educational, and social stresses and rewards in raising a special needs child.

The Baby Gizmo Buying Guide: From Pacifiers to Potties . . . Why, When, and What to Buy for Pregnancy Through Preschool

The Baby Gizmo Buying Guide: From Pacifiers to Potties . . . Why, When, and What to Buy for Pregnancy Through Preschool Review

The Baby Gizmo Buying Guide is the first comprehensive baby product reference book designed to go to the store with you.

Instead of what to buy, Heather Maclean, a mom and founder of the Little Laureate and Baby Gizmo websites, will teach you how to buy more than 400 different types of baby products. Featuring definitions, product history, and key features, this is a real-life, everything-you-need-to-know resource. It includes advice on whether you really need a product, when to buy it, and how long your baby will use it. This guide will help you make the right purchase the first time to match your unique lifestyle and needs. It is designed to help you be a smarter, more efficient baby product shopper-to keep your thoughts and research organized and to get you in and out of the store in record time. The great writing and fun "been there, really do understand what you are going through" tone will make this guide every expectant parent's favorite book.

McDonalds Collectibles: Identification & Values

McDonalds Collectibles: Identification & Values Review

This book is the only book on McDonald's to combine Happy Meals and miscellaneous collectibles under one cover. Collectors will be impressed to find over 1,000 color photos featuring giveaways, advertising and restaurant materials, premiums, toys, and authorized manufactured items. Consult this book for dates, sizes, marks, and current collector values for both unpackaged and mint-in-package items. Variations of toys are mentioned when known, and regional giveaways are discussed. Plus there's a chronological history of the company and a helpful index. The miscellaneous section of the book has been expanded to twice the size of the first edition's, and the Happy Meal toys section now covers the year 2000. Christmas ornaments by McMemories, miscellaneous costumes, and McDonald's Collectors Convention exclusives are now included.2001 values. AUTHORBIO: Gary Henriques is very knowledgeable in several categories of collecting, ranging from Daisy Air Rifles to diamonds to McDonald's collectibles, and had his own shop, selling coins, minerals, and stamps. He spends most of his spare time visiting toy shows, thrift shops, flea markets, and garage sales. He co-authored McDonald's Collectibles with Audre DuVall. AUTHORBIO: Audre DuVall, a graphic artist and native of New York state, studied commercial art and illustration at Rochester Institute of Technology, and later graduated from San Jose State University with a degree in graphic design and illustration. She co-authored McDonald's Collectibles with Gary Henriques. REVIEW: This is the second edition of the bestselling price guide. It now covers Happy Meal Toys and collectibles through the year 2000. Color photos are sharp and promotions are clearly listed by year for easy reference.

City Baby L.A., 3rd Edition: The Ultimate Guide for Los Angeles Parents, from Pregnancy to Preschool (City Baby L.A.: The Ultimate Guide for L.A. Parents from)

City Baby L.A., 3rd Edition: The Ultimate Guide for Los Angeles Parents, from Pregnancy to Preschool (City Baby L.A.: The Ultimate Guide for L.A. Parents from) Review

What could be more exciting than having a toddler in Tinseltown? Who wouldn't want their baby to grow up in the City of Little Angels? This book covers neighborhoods across L.A., in Santa Monica, Palisades, Brentwood, Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, Hancock Park, South Bay, Venice, and the Valley. It comes as no surprise that L.A. is home to some of the hippest maternity stores, the best prenatal yoga, the most premiere parks and superior medical care in the country. New moms can learn how to take care of themselves (prenatal yoga classes, childbirth methods, birthing centers) and their babies (pediatricians, au pairs, Mommy & Me programs) with this indispensable guide to the best resources, shops, and programs that L.A. has to offer. Topics covered include: Preparing for your baby from Obstetric Care to Childbirth; Taking Care of Yourself; From Health Care to Day Care; Adjusting to New Motherhood; Entertainment for Kids and Moms Shopping for Your Baby: the Big Firsts; Maternity Clothes; Baby Furniture and Accessories; Baby and Toddler Clothing; Toys, Books, Videos, Catalogs, and Magazines. Includes website directory, and extensive address listings.

How to Live Well Without Owning a Car: Save Money, Breathe Easier, and Get More Mileage Out of Life

How to Live Well Without Owning a Car: Save Money, Breathe Easier, and Get More Mileage Out of Life Review

How to Live Well Without Owning a Car: Save Money, Breathe Easier, and Get More Mileage Out of Life Feature

• ISBN13: 9781580087575
• Condition: New
• Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!

You don'¬?t need to own a car to live well in America. In fact, you'¬?d probably be better off without one. In this groundbreaking guide, award-winning journalist Chris Balish exposes the true costs of car ownership and shows how car-free living can put anyone on the path to financial freedom. Using the book'¬?s car cost worksheet, first figure out how much owning a car really costs-you'¬?ll be surprised. Then, see how easy it is to transition to a car-free or car-lite lifestyle using Chris'¬?s strategies for commuting, running errands, taking trips, dating, socializing, and more. You'¬?ll also find hundreds of tips and success stories from car-free people in cities and suburbs across America. Without car payments, rising gas prices, and traffic jams to worry about, you'¬?ll have more money and leisure time to spend as you choose. Discover why getting rid of your car may be the soundest and sanest lifestyle change you can make.ReviewsView a video clip from NBC's Today Show: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25609661/ "Chris Balish offers a mix of the practical-a worksheet to figure out a car's total cost and impact-as well as the horrifying: The average American walks just 300 yards a day."-Sierra Magazine "If ever there was a practical inducement to get out of the car trap, this is it. For the multitude of Americans stuck in traffic and spending thousands of dollars a year on their cars, Chris'¬?s lively and pragmatic step-by-step solutions provide a way out."-Jane Holtz Kay, author of Asphalt Nation"Chris Balish's book can help environmentally conscious Americans live their values. If you're concerned about pollution and global warming, follow the program in these pages. There can be life without a car. And a good life at that!"-Ed Begley, Jr., actor and environmental activist"[Chris Balish's] prescriptions are feasible and most important, reasonable."-San Antonio Express News"Even if living car-free or car-lite isn't for you, you'll still learn a lot from this book. I did."-Michelle Singletary, Washington PostListen to Chris Balish talk about living car-free in Los Angeles on NPR's Morning Edition.

Guide to Baby Products

Guide to Baby Products Review

This revised, updated guide to value, safety, durability, comfort, and performance in baby products, by the author of Crying Baby, Sleepless Nights, includes ratings charts, an index, and fifty informative black-and-white photographs. Original.

Mom's House, Dad's House: Making Two Homes for Your Child

Mom's House, Dad's House: Making Two Homes for Your Child Review

The groundbreaking classic, now revised, updated and expanded, covers the legal, financial and emotional realities of creating two happy and stable homes for children in the often difficult and confusing aftermath of a divorce.

The Official Precious Moments Coll Guide to Figurines, 3rd (Official Precious Moments Collector's Guide to Figurines)

The Official Precious Moments Coll Guide to Figurines, 3rd (Official Precious Moments Collector's Guide to Figurines) Review

Carrying messages of loving, caring, and sharing, the Precious Moments children have grabbed the hearts of collectors everywhere. This newly updated book, now in a larger, 8 1/2 x 11 format, will become an indispensable resource for collectors around the country. This new third edition presents approximately 2,700 bisque figurines. It includes current as well as retired pieces. It contains new pieces and more updated and accurate information, plus new sections. This book is undoubtedly the most comprehensive official guide to Precious Moments figurines on the market. Each figurine is pictured in color and item number, date of issue, availability, and secondary market values are given. There are spaces provided for the collector to record the amount paid and the dates they purchased their pieces. A must have for every Precious Moments fan! 2008 values.

Start Your Own Fashion Accessories Business

Start Your Own Fashion Accessories Business Review

Design Your Future in Fashion!
A billion-dollar industry, fashion accessories offer a world of business possibilities for stylish entrepreneurs like you! From jewelry and handbags to scarves and hats, Entrepreneur covers the hottest accessories businesses within the flourishing fashion industry.

Learn how to create and sell your own accessories, buy wholesale accessories for resale, or establish your own online or traditional store! Providing insider advice, tips, and tricks along the way, our expert fashionistas take you step by step and show you how to discover your specialty, establish your business, set up your home workshop and office, manage your finances, and much more!

• Choose from popular fashion accessory niches- handcrafted jewelry, handbags, belts, scarves, and hats
• Discover the right sales avenue for your products
• Outfit your home workshop and office with the right tools and supplies
• Partner with retailers and designers to boost brand recognition
• Efficiently manage inventory and supplies for easy order fulfillment
• Boost profits by expanding and cross-marketing your product line
• And more

Turn your passion for fashion into a successful business today!

City Baby L.A., 2nd Edition: The Ultimate Guide for Los Angeles Parents from Pregnancy through Preschool (City and Company)

City Baby L.A., 2nd Edition: The Ultimate Guide for Los Angeles Parents from Pregnancy through Preschool (City and Company) Review

City Baby L.A., 2nd Edition: The Ultimate Guide for Los Angeles Parents from Pregnancy through Preschool (City and Company) Feature

• ISBN13: 9780789313478
• Condition: Used - Very Good
• Notes: 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!

L.A. moms Meadow and Rocchio help parents navigate the vast and busy parenting landscape of L.A., and offer advice and information on parenting issues from delivery to deciding on a preschool.

Success With Baby Chicks: A Complete Guide to Hatchery Selection, Mail-Order Chicks, Day-Old Chick Care, Brooding, Brooder Plans, Feeding, and Housing

Success With Baby Chicks: A Complete Guide to Hatchery Selection, Mail-Order Chicks, Day-Old Chick Care, Brooding, Brooder Plans, Feeding, and Housing Review

Lost Secrets of the Poultry Masters! In this engaging, practical book, Robert Plamondon describes how to raise baby chicks, using brooder-house techniques that, though now largely forgotten, were once used on millions of American farms. Anyone can raise baby chicks successfully by following these simple, proven methods. Robert Plamondon keeps a flock of 600 free-range hens on his farm in Blodgett, Oregon. His wife Karen Black raises 2,000 pastured broilers a year.