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<div>"Baby It's You" is out of print and was just by me -
the two popular books seemed to be confounded in the para below.
"Everything your baby would ask if only he/she could talk"
by Kyra Karmiloff and AK-S has just been reprinted by Carroll &
Brown, London.</div>
<div>Annette</div>
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<div>.At 11:28 +0100 31/7/03, Alcock, Katie wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">I forgot to
summarise this discussion like I promised. It was interesting
for sociological reasons as well as in finding books. </font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">Six authors
recommended their own books. Some of the books recommended (not
all by their own authors) were a little tangential to my/my brother's
interests (psychoanalytic, primarily about pregnancy, about raising
older children). However many books were also recommended by
people who did NOT write them... here are the books recommended with
comments, and numbers of votes.</font><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">May I highly
recommend (despite the title)<b> The Scientist in</b></font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1"><b>the Crib, by Gopnik, Meltzoff and
Kuhl</b>? The authors' delight</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">in children illuminates a beautifully and
humanely written</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">survey of contemporary research on how
children come to know</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">about other people, about language and
about the physical</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">world. 3 votes for this book - none from
the authors!</font><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">baby steps,
2003 owl,holt - Claire B Kopp - no more details given</font><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">Lise Eliot's
book:</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1"><b>"What's going on in there?
How the brain and mind develop in the first</b></font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1"><b>five years of life"
(1999).</b></font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1"><b>New York: Bantam.</b></font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">Although obviously aimed at interested
parents, there was plenty in</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">there that was new for me too.</font><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"><b>Annette
Karmiloff-Smith</b> and her daughter have a best-seller called<b>
"Baby</b></font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1"><b>It's You",</b> great stuff for
the lay person.</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">(Note from me: I use the video of this
with my undergraduate classes especially for the
language/communication examples e.g. over/underextension, joint
reference, echolalia). 2 votes for this - neither from the author -
but it may be out of print</font><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">Annette
Karmiloff Smith's book (which appears to have a nicer cover in the US)
"What your baby would ask..." "Some
Amazon.com readers apparently think it's too "English" but
that may be better than being too American!" As a new mom, I
appreciated the format of Annette's book, which was short chapters and
easy to read. 3 votes</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">Recommended
along with:<b> Hirsh-Pasek/Golinkoff book "How Babies
Talk.."</b></font> <font face="Arial" size="-1">
"They're different in their own ways -- the Karmiloff-Smith book
is a bit more general (motor, language, cognitive and social
development all covered), where as the Golinkoff/Hirsh-Pasek book is
more detailed, but great. I recommend that book all the time, and
people seem to like it." 2 votes</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"><b>Lise
Eliot's "Early Intelligence";</b> Penguin Books,</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">1999.</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1"><b>Gary Marcus, The Birth of the Mind</b>
(Basic Books, January 2004),</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial"
size="-1"><b>'Touchpoints' by Berry Brazelton</b></font><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial"
size="-1"><b>Introduction to Infant Development,</b></font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1"><b>edited by Alan Slater and Michael
Lewis</b>, Oxford University</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">Press, 2002.</font><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"><b>Selma
Freiberg's 'The Magic</b></font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1"><b>Years'</b> but it's psychoanalytic in
it's theoretical</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">underpinnings (although it doesn't read
so that the</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">lay person would even notice) and so I
don't know if</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">that's everyone's cup of tea. It covers
childhood</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">anxieties and problems from
0-5.</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"><b>Kenn Apel
and Julie Masterson</b>,</font><b> <font face="Arial" size="-1">
Beyond Baby Talk: From Sounds to Sentences, A Parent's Complete Guide
to Language Development.</font></b><font face="Arial" size="-1"> It's
published by Prima (2001)</font><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000000"><b>Happy Children by Rudolf Dreikurs</b>, an Adlarian
psychologist. There are newer versions of the book, not as good as the
old one, which I buy all young parents in the my family: Happy
Children: Challenge for Parents, by Rudolf Dreikurs and Vicki Soltz,
and, The Challenge of Parenthood by Rudolf Dreikurs. Neither book is
really about child development but about rearing them.</font><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"><b>The Mayo
Clinic Guide to Pregnancy and Baby's First Year.</b></font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">This one has fantastic information about
pregnancy, labor, and delivery, but the second half of the book on the
first year is also wonderful. It tells you what to expect,
developmentally each month, when to see the doctor, and presents both
views on things like the "Mozart Effect", and
co-sleeping.</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial"
size="-1"><b>"Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child"
from</b></font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1"><b>John Gottman</b> for parents of
children two years and up. The book draws</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">on Gottman's developmental work on
children's friendships and peer</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">relationships and his clinical work with
married and partnered adults. </font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">The self-help style of the book can be a
bit off-putting, but the</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">advice on teaching children how to handle
emotions and negotiate social</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">relationships is terrific.</font><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"><b>Sarah
Blaffer Hrdy's "Mother Nature</b>," as a present</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">to scientifically-minded friends
expecting a baby. Hrdy tells the</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">biological and anthropological story of
mothers, focussing on humans</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">and non-human primates. It is more about
mothers and fathers than about</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">infants, but it is a great read for
anyone who wants to have a think</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">about the investment of
parenting.</font><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial"
size="-1">Conclusions?</font><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">Since I
really want something less on parenting and not psychoanalytic, I
think they'll be getting one undergraduate textbook (maybe this Slater
book or the Blackwell Reader - if my undergraduates can cope with it,
so can my brother) and one or more of the Karmiloff-Smith, Gopnik et
al., or Golinkoff. Probably not just the Golinkoff as they will
want something general as well as something on language (although
language development is, of course, the most important
part!)</font><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">Katie
Alcock</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">Katie
Alcock, DPhil</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">Lecturer</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">Department of Psychology</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">City University</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">Northampton Square</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">London EC1V 0HB</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">Phone (+44) (0)20 7040 0167</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">Fax (+44) (0)20 7040 8581</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">Web</font> <a
href="http://www.staff.city.ac.uk/k.j.alcock"><font face="Arial"
size="-1">http://www.staff.city.ac.uk/k.j.alcock</font></a></blockquote
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