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Health & Lifestyle » Parenting

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Dibs in Search of Self by Virginia M Axline

“I like this book because it really resonates in terms of why I do what I do and, particularly, why I am passionate about child and adolescent mental health. The book is all about child therapy and a boy called Dibs who wouldn’t talk and wouldn’t play. He has lots of difficulties and issues, and I think he represents a lot of children with mental health problems who are easily misunderstood. We get very anxious about mental health – and when it comes to children we get deeply, deeply anxious about it.”

Tanya Byron, Psychologist

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This is a collection of the best parenting books recommended by experts. Every parent does the best they can, but there are times when the challenges can feel overwhelming and exhausting. Our growing collection of parenting books recommended by experts is aimed at providing information and good advice for parents to help them to raise happy, confident and resilient children.

This section covers mindful parenting, motherhood, fatherhood, child development, play, education, vaccines, child psychology and more. We have recommended books for before birth, and the infant stage to teenage years.

Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain was recently featured as one of the best science books to take on holiday.

Our experts include professors and leading figures in their field, so whatever your parenting questions, you are bound to find the answers here.

    Genevieve Von Lob on Mindful Parenting

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    Genevieve Von Lob on Mindful Parenting - The Whole Brain Child by Dr Daniel Seigel & Dr Tina Payne Bryson

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    The Whole Brain Child
    by Dr Daniel Seigel & Dr Tina Payne Bryson

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    Genevieve Von Lob on Mindful Parenting - How to Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will Talk by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish

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    How to Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will Talk
    by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish

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    Genevieve Von Lob on Mindful Parenting - Self-Compassion by Kristin Neff

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    Self-Compassion
    by Kristin Neff

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    Genevieve Von Lob on Mindful Parenting - Hold on to Your Kids by Gordon Neufeld

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    Hold on to Your Kids
    by Gordon Neufeld

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    Genevieve Von Lob on Mindful Parenting - Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv

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    Last Child in the Woods
    by Richard Louv

Genevieve Von Lob on Mindful Parenting

Dr Genevieve Von Lob talks to Five Books about the pressures and strains on family life today, and how a mindful approach can help us all.

    The best books on Understanding Infants, recommended by Tobias Hecht

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    The best books on Understanding Infants - Tired of Weeping by Jónína Einarsdóttir

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    Tired of Weeping
    by Jónína Einarsdóttir

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    The best books on Understanding Infants - The Afterlife is Where We Come From by Alma Gottlieb

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    The Afterlife is Where We Come From
    by Alma Gottlieb

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    The best books on Understanding Infants - Anthropology and Child Development by Robert A LeVine and Rebecca S New (ed)

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    Anthropology and Child Development
    by Robert A LeVine and Rebecca S New (ed)

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    The best books on Understanding Infants - Our Babies, Ourselves by Meredith F Small

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    Our Babies, Ourselves
    by Meredith F Small

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    The best books on Understanding Infants - The Evolution of Childhood by Melvin Konner

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    The Evolution of Childhood
    by Melvin Konner

The best books on Understanding Infants, recommended by Tobias Hecht

The anthropologist explains how infants are socially aware and why behaviour thought inevitable in some cultures, such as tantrums, can be uncommon elsewhere

    The best books on Life Before Birth – And Life After It, recommended by Vivette Glover

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    The best books on Life Before Birth – And Life After It - Love at Goon Park by Deborah Blum

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    Love at Goon Park
    by Deborah Blum

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    The best books on Life Before Birth – And Life After It - The Social Baby by Lynne Murray, Liz Andrews

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    The Social Baby
    by Lynne Murray, Liz Andrews

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    The best books on Life Before Birth – And Life After It - A Child Is Born by Lennart Nilson, Lars Hamberger

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    A Child Is Born
    by Lennart Nilson, Lars Hamberger

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    The best books on Life Before Birth – And Life After It - Life In The Womb by Peter Nathanielsz

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    Life In The Womb
    by Peter Nathanielsz

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    The best books on Life Before Birth – And Life After It - The Fetal Matrix by Peter Gluckman, Mark Hanson

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    The Fetal Matrix
    by Peter Gluckman, Mark Hanson

The best books on Life Before Birth – And Life After It, recommended by Vivette Glover

The professor of perinatal psychobiology at Imperial College, London tells us how our understanding of foetal development and the importance of mother-child bonding has changed in recent decades

    The best books on Children, recommended by Jo Boyden

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    The best books on Children - Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children by Viviana A Zelizer

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    Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children
    by Viviana A Zelizer

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    The best books on Children - Social Development by H. Rudolph Schaffer

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    Social Development
    by H. Rudolph Schaffer

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    The best books on Children - The Roads of Chinese Childhood by Charles Stafford

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    The Roads of Chinese Childhood
    by Charles Stafford

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    The best books on Children - The Child in the City by Colin Ward

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    The Child in the City
    by Colin Ward

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    The best books on Children - The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett

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    The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
    by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett

The best books on Children, recommended by Jo Boyden

We all know how children should be brought up, and rarely question the cultural norms that underly that certainty. But what does that mean for the policies we try to impose on the developing world? Jo Boyden, professor of international development at Oxford University and director of its Young Lives study, picks books that question our assumptions about how to successfully raise a child.

    The best books on Being a Mother, recommended by Amy Chua

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    The best books on Being a Mother - Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

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    Little Women
    by Louisa May Alcott

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    The best books on Being a Mother - The Good Earth by Pearl Buck

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    The Good Earth
    by Pearl Buck

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    The best books on Being a Mother - Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey

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    Make Way for Ducklings
    by Robert McCloskey

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    The best books on Being a Mother - The Hours by Michael Cunningham

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    The Hours
    by Michael Cunningham

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    The best books on Being a Mother - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by David Eggers

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    A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
    by David Eggers

The best books on Being a Mother, recommended by Amy Chua

The author of the self-satirising memoir on ambitious “tiger mothers” talks us through the books about motherhood that have made the most impact on her.

    Deborah Levy on Motherhood in Literature

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    Deborah Levy on Motherhood in Literature - My Mother's House by Colette

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    My Mother's House
    by Colette

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    Deborah Levy on Motherhood in Literature - To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

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    To the Lighthouse
    by Virginia Woolf

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    Deborah Levy on Motherhood in Literature - The Lover by Marguerite Duras

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    The Lover
    by Marguerite Duras

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    Deborah Levy on Motherhood in Literature - As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980 by Susan Sontag

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    As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
    by Susan Sontag

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    Deborah Levy on Motherhood in Literature - All About My Mother (film) by Pedro Almodóvar

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    All About My Mother (film)
    by Pedro Almodóvar

Deborah Levy on Motherhood in Literature

Aristotle tells us that all politics starts in the family, and nowhere is that more obvious than in the infamously fraught relationship between mother and daughter. Here, the novelist, playwright and poet Deborah Levy chooses five books – or rather, four books and one film – that explore motherhood.

    Best Books About Dads (for younger kids), recommended by Paul Howard

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    Best Books About Dads (for younger kids) - Pete's A Pizza by William Steig

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    Pete's A Pizza
    by William Steig

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    Best Books About Dads (for younger kids) - Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity by Mo Willems

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    Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity
    by Mo Willems

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    Best Books About Dads (for younger kids) - My Dad Used To Be So Cool by Keith Negley

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    My Dad Used To Be So Cool
    by Keith Negley

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    Best Books About Dads (for younger kids) - Demolition Dad by Phil Earle & Sarah Oglivy

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    Demolition Dad
    by Phil Earle & Sarah Oglivy

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    Best Books About Dads (for younger kids) - My Dad's A Birdman by David Almond & Polly Dunbar

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    My Dad's A Birdman
    by David Almond & Polly Dunbar

Best Books About Dads (for younger kids), recommended by Paul Howard

Depictions of fathers in children’s books have leapt forward in recent years, says illustrator Paul Howard. He talks us through his favourite visions of modern dads in books, from the ultimate macho man to fathers at their most vulnerable.

    The best books on Educating Your Child, recommended by Peg Tyre

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    The best books on Educating Your Child - Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf

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    Proust and the Squid
    by Maryanne Wolf

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    The best books on Educating Your Child - The Number Sense by Stanislas Dehaene

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    The Number Sense
    by Stanislas Dehaene

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    The best books on Educating Your Child - Cultural Literacy by ED Hirsch Jr

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    Cultural Literacy
    by ED Hirsch Jr

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    The best books on Educating Your Child - Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck

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    Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
    by Carol Dweck

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    The best books on Educating Your Child - The Price of Privilege by Madeline Levine

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    The Price of Privilege
    by Madeline Levine

The best books on Educating Your Child, recommended by Peg Tyre

Education writer Peg Tyre says many parents don’t understand how children learn and so don’t know what to look for in a school. She recommends five books to bring parents up to speed.

    The best books on Millennials, recommended by Malcolm Harris

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    The best books on Millennials - The Playdate: Parents, Children and the New Expectations of Play by Tamara Mose

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    The Playdate: Parents, Children and the New Expectations of Play
    by Tamara Mose

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    The best books on Millennials - Producing Excellence: The Making of Virtuosos by Izabela Wagner

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    Producing Excellence: The Making of Virtuosos
    by Izabela Wagner

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    The best books on Millennials - Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street's Post-Crash Recruits by Kevin Roose

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    Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street's Post-Crash Recruits
    by Kevin Roose

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    The best books on Millennials - Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys by Victor M Rios

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    Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys
    by Victor M Rios

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    The best books on Millennials - Close to Home: A Materialist Analysis of Women's Oppression by Christine Delphy

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    Close to Home: A Materialist Analysis of Women's Oppression
    by Christine Delphy

The best books on Millennials, recommended by Malcolm Harris

The Millennial cohort is often characterised as a shallow, social media-obsessed generation that puts avocado toast ahead of the future. But in reality they are overeducated, underemployed and beset by anxiety, says Malcolm Harris, millennial and author of Kids These Days. Here he selects five books that paint a more accurate portrait of the first generation to come of age in the 21st century.

    The best books on Happiness for Children, recommended by Vanessa King

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    The best books on Happiness for Children - Wellbeing in the Primary Classroom: A Practical Guide to Teaching Happiness by Adrian Bethune

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    Wellbeing in the Primary Classroom: A Practical Guide to Teaching Happiness
    by Adrian Bethune

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    The best books on Happiness for Children - The Strength Switch by Dr Lea Waters

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    The Strength Switch
    by Dr Lea Waters

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    The best books on Happiness for Children - War Horse by Michael Morpurgo

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    War Horse
    by Michael Morpurgo

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    The best books on Happiness for Children - Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren

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    Pippi Longstocking
    by Astrid Lindgren

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    The best books on Happiness for Children - Do Nice, Be Kind, Spread Happy: Acts of Kindness for Kids by Bernadette Russell

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    Do Nice, Be Kind, Spread Happy: Acts of Kindness for Kids
    by Bernadette Russell

The best books on Happiness for Children, recommended by Vanessa King

What is happiness? Why does happiness matter? Vanessa King, lead psychologist at the charity/non-profit Action for Happiness, discusses how developing ours and our children’s happiness skills can have benefits for our own lives and for society as a whole.

    The best books on Child Psychology and Mental Health, recommended by Tanya Byron

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    The best books on Child Psychology and Mental Health - Dibs in Search of Self by Virginia M Axline

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    Dibs in Search of Self
    by Virginia M Axline

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    The best books on Child Psychology and Mental Health - The Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison

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    The Unquiet Mind
    by Kay Redfield Jamison

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    The best books on Child Psychology and Mental Health - Portraits of the Mind by Carl Schoonover

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    Portraits of the Mind
    by Carl Schoonover

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    The best books on Child Psychology and Mental Health - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks

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    The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
    by Oliver Sacks

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    The best books on Child Psychology and Mental Health - No Fear by Tim Gill

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    No Fear
    by Tim Gill

The best books on Child Psychology and Mental Health, recommended by Tanya Byron

Clinical psychologist, author and broadcaster discusses the stigmas attached to mental health problems, and asks whether, as a society, we are really doing what’s best for our children

    The best books on Memoirs of Dauntless Daughters, recommended by Nancy Goldstone

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    The best books on Memoirs of Dauntless Daughters - The Memoirs Of Marguerite De Valois by Marguerite De Valois

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    The Memoirs Of Marguerite De Valois
    by Marguerite De Valois

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    The best books on Memoirs of Dauntless Daughters - Why Not Say What Happened?: A Memoir by Ivana Lowell

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    Why Not Say What Happened?: A Memoir
    by Ivana Lowell

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    The best books on Memoirs of Dauntless Daughters - Casting with a Fragile Thread: A Story of Sisters and Africa by Wendy Kann

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    Casting with a Fragile Thread: A Story of Sisters and Africa
    by Wendy Kann

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    The best books on Memoirs of Dauntless Daughters - The Mighty Queens of Freeville by Amy Dickinson

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    The Mighty Queens of Freeville
    by Amy Dickinson

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    The best books on Memoirs of Dauntless Daughters - Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed

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    Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
    by Cheryl Strayed

The best books on Memoirs of Dauntless Daughters, recommended by Nancy Goldstone

In her book The Rival Queens, historian Nancy Goldstone explored the destructive relationship between Marguerite de Valois and her mother Catherine de’ Medici. Here she chooses five different memoirs that best explore the emotionally complex dynamics that characterise mother-daughter relationships.

    The Best Vaccine Books, recommended by Seth Mnookin

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    The Best Vaccine Books - Polio: An American Story by David Oshinsky

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    Polio: An American Story
    by David Oshinsky

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    The Best Vaccine Books - Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver by Arthur Allen

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    Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver
    by Arthur Allen

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    The Best Vaccine Books - The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis by Paul Offit

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    The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis
    by Paul Offit

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    The Best Vaccine Books - Microbe Hunters by Paul de Kruif

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    Microbe Hunters
    by Paul de Kruif

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    The Best Vaccine Books - The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic by Steven Johnson

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    The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic
    by Steven Johnson

The Best Vaccine Books, recommended by Seth Mnookin

November 9th, 2020: We’ve just heard the news that Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine is 90% effective, at least in the short-term, raising the possibility that the coronavirus pandemic may finally be brought to an end. The history of vaccines is an absolutely fascinating one, and we highly recommend all the books discussed in this 2013 interview with Seth Mnookin, author of The Panic Virus and Professor of Science Writing at MIT. These are all gripping reads that tell the story of vaccines, medicine’s greatest life-saver, and the risks people took to find them.

    The best books on Fatherhood, recommended by Kyle Pruett

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    The best books on Fatherhood - Silas Marner by George Eliot

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    Silas Marner
    by George Eliot

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    The best books on Fatherhood - The Role of the Father in Child Development by Michael Lamb

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    The Role of the Father in Child Development
    by Michael Lamb

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    The best books on Fatherhood - Fatherneed by Kyle Pruett

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    Fatherneed
    by Kyle Pruett

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    The best books on Fatherhood - Partnership Parenting by Kyle Pruett

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    Partnership Parenting
    by Kyle Pruett

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    The best books on Fatherhood - The Myth of the Missing Black Father by Roberta Coles

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    The Myth of the Missing Black Father
    by Roberta Coles

The best books on Fatherhood, recommended by Kyle Pruett

Fathers and mothers play very different roles in a child’s development, says Kyle Pruett, Clinical Professor in the Child Study Center at Yale School of Medicine—and both are essential. He recommends books on fathers and fatherhood—for both parents.

    The best books on Mindset and Success, recommended by Carol Dweck

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    The best books on Mindset and Success - How Children Fail by John Holt

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    How Children Fail
    by John Holt

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    The best books on Mindset and Success - The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould

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    The Mismeasure of Man
    by Stephen Jay Gould

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    The best books on Mindset and Success - Developing Talent in Young People by Benjamin Bloom

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    Developing Talent in Young People
    by Benjamin Bloom

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    The best books on Mindset and Success - Moneyball by Michael Lewis

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    Moneyball
    by Michael Lewis

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    The best books on Mindset and Success - The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge

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    The Brain That Changes Itself
    by Norman Doidge

The best books on Mindset and Success, recommended by Carol Dweck

If you’ve stepped inside a school recently, you’ve probably heard teachers talking about the importance of  a ‘growth mindset.’ Here psychologist Carol Dweck, who pioneered research into this key concept, explains what it’s all about and recommends books—other than her own—that shed light on it.

    The best books on The Gender Trap, recommended by Peggy Orenstein

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    The best books on The Gender Trap - Pink Brain, Blue Brain by Lise Eliot

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    Pink Brain, Blue Brain
    by Lise Eliot

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    The best books on The Gender Trap - Packaging Girlhood by Sharon Lamb and Lyn Mikel Brown

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    Packaging Girlhood
    by Sharon Lamb and Lyn Mikel Brown

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    The best books on The Gender Trap - Packaging Boyhood by Lyn Mikel Brown, Sharon Lamb and Mark Tappan

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    Packaging Boyhood
    by Lyn Mikel Brown, Sharon Lamb and Mark Tappan

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    The best books on The Gender Trap - Odd Girl Out by Rachel Simmons

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    Odd Girl Out
    by Rachel Simmons

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    The best books on The Gender Trap - Horace and Morris but Mostly Delores by James Howe and Amy Walrod

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    Horace and Morris but Mostly Delores
    by James Howe and Amy Walrod

The best books on The Gender Trap, recommended by Peggy Orenstein

From an early age, girls learn to be pretty in pink while boys are marketed a prepackaged masculinity. The author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter explains how parents can give their children a broader, more imaginative outlook

    The best books on Play, recommended by Dorothy Singer

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    The best books on Play - A Dynamic Theory of Personality by Kurt Lewin

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    A Dynamic Theory of Personality
    by Kurt Lewin

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    The best books on Play - Childhood and Society by Erik H Erikson

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    Childhood and Society
    by Erik H Erikson

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    The best books on Play - Play, Dreams and Imitation in Childhood by Jean Piaget

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    Play, Dreams and Imitation in Childhood
    by Jean Piaget

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    The best books on Play - Psychotherapy With Children by Frederick H Allen

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    Psychotherapy With Children
    by Frederick H Allen

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    The best books on Play - Dibs in Search of Self by Virginia M Axline

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    Dibs in Search of Self
    by Virginia M Axline

The best books on Play, recommended by Dorothy Singer

Play is a vital learning experience. But not all play is equal. Some helps children develop their imagination and learn cooperative behaviour. Some doesn’t. The Yale psychologist explains all

    The best books on Human Imperfection, recommended by Henry Normal

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    The best books on Human Imperfection - Small Dreams of a Scorpion by Spike Milligan

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    Small Dreams of a Scorpion
    by Spike Milligan

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    The best books on Human Imperfection - The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe

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    The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Runner
    by Alan Sillitoe

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    The best books on Human Imperfection - Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

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    Nineteen Eighty-Four
    by George Orwell

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    The best books on Human Imperfection - The Mixed-Up Chameleon by Eric Carle

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    The Mixed-Up Chameleon
    by Eric Carle

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    The best books on Human Imperfection - A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

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    A Short History of Nearly Everything
    by Bill Bryson

The best books on Human Imperfection, recommended by Henry Normal

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    Narrative of a Child Analysis
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    The best books on Child Psychotherapy - The Psychoanalytic Treatment of Children by Anna Freud

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    The Psychoanalytic Treatment of Children
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    The best books on Child Psychotherapy - Playing and Reality by Donald Winnicott

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    Playing and Reality
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    A Question of Technique
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