Children's eBooks

Learn What Your Baby or Toddler Wants and Needs Before They Can Speak

One of the worst feelings as a new parent is when your baby or toddler is crying and can’t communicate to you what is wrong or what they need. You keep trying different things to soothe their frustration, sometimes to no avail, which then only increases your frustration.

Don’t let that vicious cycle of frustration keep happening over and over again! Even though your baby can’t verbalize their wants and needs to you just yet, doesn’t mean they can’t communicate them to you!

Research has shown that using sign language with your baby and toddler can:

• Aid in your communication with them before they learn to speak
• Reduce frustration for both you and your baby or toddler
• Enhance language skills
• Increase parent and child bond
• Help you learn about your child’s interests and what they are thinking about before they can tell you verbally

Plus it’s easy, fun and rewarding!

Baby’s First 25 Signs is an adorable, bright, and colorful book filled with 25 essential and easy-to-learn first signs. It’s the perfect book to start your signing journey and start communication with your baby or toddler before they can speak.

This perfect book to start to signing with your baby includes:

• Real American Sign Language signs
• Real photographs of the signs with added arrows to show you how to do each sign
• Baby and toddlers most often used first signs, like help, more, eat, milk, and much more
• Adorable baby photographs – babies love to look at pictures of other babies
• Tips on how to sign with your baby
• Resources provided to help you continue on your signing journey successfully

Don’t let another day go by without introducing the fun and rewarding experience that signing with your baby can be. It’s so easy and fun!

Start today with this ADORABLE book that both you and your baby are sure to love.

Want to help a new mom have more fun as a new mom and have less frustration? Baby’s First 25 Signs is the first book in Kim Taylor’sMy Baby Can Signseries, followed by Baby’s Color Signs and Baby’s Animal Signs. These adorable books make the perfect gift for baby showers!

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Who transformed George Washington’s demoralized troops at Valley Forge into a fighting force that defeated an empire? Who cracked Germany’s Enigma code and shortened World War II? Who successfully lobbied the US Congress to outlaw child labor? And who organized the 1963 March on Washington? Ls, Gs, Bs, and Ts, that’s who.

Given today’s news, it would be easy to get the impression that the campaign for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) equality is a recent development, but it is only the final act in a struggle that started more than a century ago. The history is told through personal stories and firsthand accounts of the movement’s key events, like the 1950s “Lavender Scare,” the Stonewall Inn uprising, and the AIDS crisis. Kids will learn about civil rights mavericks, like Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, founder of the first gay rights organization; Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, who turned the Daughters of Bilitis from a lesbian social club into a powerhouse for LGBT freedom; Christine Jorgensen, the nation’s first famous transgender; and Harvey Milk, the first out candidate to win a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Also chronicled are the historic contributions of famous LGBT individuals, from General von Steuben and Alan Turing to Jane Addams and Bayard Rustin, among others. This up-to-date history includes the landmark Supreme Court decision making marriage equality the law of the land. Twenty-one activities enliven the history and demonstrate the spirited ways the LGBT community has pushed for positive social change.

Kids can: write a free verse poem like Walt Whitman; learn “The Madison” line dance; remember a loved one with a quilt panel; perform a monologue from The Laramie Project; make up a song parody; and much more.

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