infants

A boy and his imaginary dragon have a wonderful time playing until the newest member of the family arrives and the dragon is charmed by the new baby.

With love in their hearts, Rose and Charlie adopt a baby.

Nora Alpers has just become a ten-year-old aunt. To prepare for the new arrival, she's writing down baby-related facts in her special notebook, just like she does with her favorite subject: ants.

First-grader Montgomery Gerald Morris enjoys an exciting year as his class acquires a pair of parakeets as pets, he loses his first tooth, and he becomes a big brother.

Seventeen years after she was born to a prison inmate, Deja agrees to raise her newest half-sister for the first six months, until their mother's next release, but despite the help of friends and relatives and a support program at school, caring for a baby proves to be a monumental task.

"When wasps come to Steve in a dream offering to fix his sick baby brother, he thinks all he has to do is say yes. But yes may not mean what Steve thinks it means"--.

Provides information for women on pregnancy topics such as pre-conception do's and don'ts, prenatal testing, genetics, birthing positions, and prevention of prematurity.

With still unnamed twin baby sisters at home, Bobby, owner of an boisterous pet beagle, is worried that his parents will have no time to celebrate Christmas.

Jess O'Fines is the good child of the O'Fines family, always reliable, always ready to do favors for whichever relative asks. That means she is called upon to look after Baby Ruby during her sister's wedding rehearsal dinner after the babysitter cancels. Jess leaves the baby alone for only a few minutes in the hotel room, trying on makeup in the bathroom, but when she returns she finds Ruby gone, kidnapped--and Jess is the only one who can get her back before it is too late.

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text follow Little Miss as she learns to be a wonderful big sister.