Infants Books

I am an adult Reference Librarian, but as a former Children's Librarian, I was recently assigned to work part of the time in the Children's Department. I have conducted gads and gads of preschool storytimes, toddler times, and programs for school age children over a period of 19 years. But after the summer program ended, we began to see a need in our area for a Baby Lapsit program. We'd had on surge of new parents looking for things to do with Baby, and some of them trying to pass their 3- month-olds as Toddlers and attending programs for a different preschool age group.

Not having taken the plunge into programming for infants and their caregivers before, I felt the need for research. I read everything I could about this type of programming in books and on the Internet, but even working in a library, I didn't have easy access to the title BABIES IN THE LIBRARY by Jane Marino that I ran across online. So I bought the book from Amazon, and I am so thankful I did! It really jump-started my program. I have led 6 weeks of Baby Laptimes as of the time of this writing, and the book has more than paid for itself in the rewards I get from working with cooing, smiling babies and happy mommies every week.

The book tells how to get started, and it even has some sample programs, along with rhymes that are age-appropriate. I took a lot of the ideas, combined them with my own style and personality and ideas, and it has resulted in a program that is earning rave reviews! After we got started we had to stop publicizing it, because word of mouth was enough to spread the word like wildfire, and we wanted to try to keep the group smaller than the average storytime audience for the benefit of those attending.

I wish I'd started doing Laptimes a long time ago! Of course, this book wouldn't have been published yet, so maybe it was perfect timing. Lapsits are a great service to our library patrons, and make my job even more fun than it already was. I used other books that I found in my library system, but this book was the most helpful, and it now has a place of honor as a reference on my shelf by my desk.

I got this one because I personnally enjoy this style of art. I also have daughters and granddaughter. It makes an easy entry for me as a man to discuss being Mom with my girls.

I have a 5 year old child and am now 7 months pregnant with my second child, I discovered things in this books that i went thru in my first pregnancy and that i had no idea of the purposes of it, this book explains everything in details and i'm able to understand more of what is going on inside of my body, i feel that after reading this book i'm ready for anything that comes and has to do with parenthood, I wish i would've read this book when i was pregnant with my first child it would've definitely helped me a lot, i recommend this book, for every woman that is expecting, is planning on having a child or already has a child, because this books helps with all three stages...

A WONDERFUL book. I was first exposed to this book back in South Africa in 1990 when my son was born 2 months prematurely. Not having had children before and with my mother living many hundreds of kilometres away, I needed some guidance and something that I could rely on every day. This book had the answers to everything. Easy to read, easy to find things and most importantly, the advice given in the book was perfect every time. There are no photographs which I find unnecessary and detracting at times, but words of wisdom. The contents pages and index are very useful and one can find anything easily. The book is also written in plain English, no unnecessary medical jargon which one would need a medical dictionary to understand most books of this kind!!!! I have now had my second child, a daughter also born 2 months prematurely, some ten years later, my mother now thousands of kilometres away, and Marina has been there again to help me through the good and bad times of being a new mother. I have just received my Millennium Edition direct from Marina in South Africa and have read it through from cover to cover. It has taught me all the things that one forgets after ten years!!!! I would recommend this book to every expectant mother, new parent and longstanding parents, it will give you the sound advice that nobody else can give you. I also wish to take this opportunity of thanking Marina for such a wonderful book - keep up the good work. I also wish to congratulate her daughter, Chryssa, on the wonderful line drawings they are a pleasure to see when paging through the book.

I have the awesome responsibility of caring for my 1 year old grand daughter while her mom works. I spent hours searching the internet for teaching resources to use with her. I am so thankful that I came across this book. It is just the tool that I was looking for. The activities are lableled by age. The book is put together very well. Caregivers and children will greatly benefit from the contents.

Read the book and then you must try the recipe because it is a real winner! And easy to make, too.

I have the pleasure of knowing Dr. Brown personally, and she is as delightful as her book. This book is something that any one who loves babies will treasure. From the expectant parent through the years to the grandparent, the nuggets of wisdom and the charming illustrations will touch the heart of all. I highly recommend this book for one's personal collection as well as a gift book for others. Well written.

I think this book is very interesting because it has a good plot, fun characters, and a neat teacher!

I received the baby book from my family on announcement of my pending bundle of joy! I love the book, it gives you a warm feeling inside knowing that you will be asked those questions and become some of the people in the book. The art work is great too.

I received this book as a gift at my baby shower. What a thoughtful gift!!

I found the layout helpful in tracking the progress of my pregnancy and birth. Most importantly, I love the images of the babies, because they are like my own baby, plump and juicy, smiling and full of emotion. What expression!