Welcome to a work of history unlike any other. Mothering is as old as human existence. But, how has this most essential experience changed over time and cultures? What is the history of maternity-the history of pregnancy, birth, the encounter with an infant? Can one capture the historical trail of mothers? How? In Mother Is a Verb, the historian Sarah Knott creates a genre all her own in order to craft a new kind of historical interpretation. Blending...

Combines lighthearted illustrations and interactive flaps in a whimsical tale about a soon-to-be older sibling's happy anticipation of a new baby that compels her to sing loudly to her mother's tummy and describe everything that is waiting in the outsideworld.

Benny learns many things during the first year of his life. Includes nonfiction information about infant development.

"Meet the amazing hump-backed mammals of the desert! This book explores the features and behaviors of camels, including their desert adaptations and the distinctions between the two camel species. A folk talk explains how camels got their humps"--

The family dog finds a clever way to stop Baby's stroller from rolling away.

"When a two-ton baby blue whale named Wyatt appears for a delivery, Pip, Freddy, and the storks compete in a fly-off to try to prove who is the best delivery bird for such a big baby. But when no one wins the fly-off, the birds realize that when they work together, there's no baby too big for the T.O.T.S. team!"--Amazon.

The moment the second line on the pee stick turns pink, women discover they've entered a world of parenting experts. Friends, family, colleagues, the UPS delivery guy-suddenly everybody is a trove of advice, much of it contradictory and confusing. With dire warnings of what will happen if baby is fed on demand and even direr warnings of what will happen if he isn't, not to mention hordes of militant "lactivists," cosleeping advocates, and books on...