Featuring the wildly popular teether toy from France—Sophie la girafe—a charming album for capturing memories from birth through baby’s second birthday. With designated pages for parents to record all the milestones and details of baby’s life (first bath, first smile, first words, first lock of hair . . .) and plenty of space for precious photographs, this is a baby album made to be personalized and sure to be cherished.

Easily keep track as baby eats, sleeps, and grows Your bundle of joy is here, and you have a thousand things on your mind. This adorable hour-by-hour log will help you stay organized—with columns for breast and bottle feedings, diaper changes, and sleep, plus your own special notes! See your baby’s rhythms evolve over time Make sure your baby is eating and sleeping enough to grow Keep your journal on hand for doctor’s appointments Easily coordinate baby’s care with relatives and other helpers Inside, you’ll find enough daily pages for baby’s first six months, charts for growth and vaccines, a place to list important contacts, and a helpful introduction. Enjoy your newborn’s first months with a little piece of mind—and Sophie la girafe!

Drift off with Sophie la girafe and friends as they prepare for a good night's sleep with Baby Touch and Feel Goodnight Sophie. Inside we follow Sophie la girafe and friends' bath and bedtime routine, from brushing teeth to snuggling up with a bedtime story. This beautifully illustrated Sophie la girafe baby book is ideal for anyone wanting a touch and feel book for their little one or as a charming baby gift. With varied textures to feel from Sophie's cotton night-cap to a soft blanket, Baby Touch and Feel Goodnight Sophie will help baby have a peaceful bedtime.

Record precious memories of baby's first year in Sophie la girafe: Sophie's Baby Record Book. This gorgeous, ribbon-tied Sophie the Giraffe keepsake book is perfect for new parents. Record baby's birth and family facts, write about favourite things and early routines, take baby's handprint and footprint, add a lock of baby's hair, and fill in first birthday and Christmas experiences. With pages for photographs of baby's first moments, Sophie la girafe: Sophie's Baby Record Book doubles as a gorgeous baby photo album. Covering all the key milestones from baby's first year, DK's beautiful Sophie la girafe: Sophie's Baby Record Book makes a wonderful new baby gift which can be cherished and enjoyed for life.

Dark, earthy, and immensely powerful, the Black Goddess has been a key force in world history, manifesting in images as diverse as the Indian goddess Kali and the Black Madonnas of medieval Europe. She embodies the energy of chaos and creativity, creation and destruction, death and rebirth. Images of Her, however, have been conspicuously missing in the Western world for centuries—until now, when awareness of the Goddess is re-arising in many spheres, from the women's movement to traditional religion, from the new discoveries of quantum physics to the dreams of ordinary men and women. Why now particularly? The answer provided by Marion Woodman and Elinor Dickson is bold and thrilling: the reemergence of the Divine Feminine in our time indicates our readiness to move to an entirely new level of consciousness. The reemerging Goddess calls for a shattering of rigid categories, a willingness to hold opposition. She calls us to marry reason and order to creativity, and to embrace the chaos that can ultimately lead to wisdom and transformation on personal and global levels.

In the 1920s, with the end of the revolution, the Soviet government began investing resources and energy into creating a new type of book for the first generation of young Soviet readers. In a sense, these early books for children were the ABCs of Soviet modernity; creatively illustrated and intricately designed, they were manuals and primers that helped the young reader enter the field of politics through literature. Children’s books provided the basic vocabulary and grammar for understanding new, post-revolutionary realities, but they also taught young readers how to perceive modern events and communist practices. Relying on a process of dual-media rendering, illustrated books presented propaganda as a simple, repeatable narrative or verse, while also casting it in easily recognizable graphic images. A vehicle of ideology, object of affection, and product of labour all in one, the illustrated book for the young Soviet reader emerged as an important cultural phenomenon. Communist in its content, it was often avant-gardist in its form. Spotlighting three thematic threads – communist goals, pedagogy, and propaganda – The Pedagogy of Images traces the formation of a mass-modern readership through the creation of the communist-inflected visual and narrative conventions that these early readers were meant to appropriate.

Fetch a pencil, curl up with your pup, and unleash your thoughts with this keepsake journal for devoted dog lovers. No matter how long you’ve had your pet or how old he or she is, now is the perfect time to begin recording your adventures together and highlighting what makes your dog the best dog ever. With loads of fun questions like, What makes your pup’s tail wag? Who’s your pup’s best four-legged friend? What are his or her secret talents? and What was the last thing your dog did to make you laugh? you’ll enjoy writing down everything you know and love about your furry bestie. · More than 150 prompts and multiple-choice questions to guide you along · Funny and inspiring dog quotes, plus colorful art on every page! · Room to add all of your favorite photos · Create a keepsake to preserve your memories · Pay tribute to your four-legged friend and all the ways he or she makes life better

"The World Through Picture Books (WTPB) is a programme of the IFLA Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section in collaboration with IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) Children's Librarians all over the world understand how important picture books in both traditional and digital formats are for children, for their development, cultural identity and as a springboard into learning to read for themselves. The idea behind the World Through Picture Books was to create a selection of picture books from around the world that have been recommended by librarians, as a way of celebrating and promoting the languages, cultures and quality of children's book publishing globally. The 3rd edition highlights 530 picture books, from 57 countries and featuring 37 languages. It is fully digital and the catalogue as well as a poster and bookmark can be downloaded free of charge." --

This 1999 reference grammar, written for advanced students of French, their teachers, and others who want a better understanding of the French language, combines the best of modern and traditional approaches. Its objective is not only practical mastery of the language, but familiarity with its structure. Taking into account modern linguistic research, Advanced French Grammar approaches the French language primarily through the study of syntactic structures, but without excessive emphasis on formalism. It provides a generous number of examples, based on the author's own experience of teaching French to English-speakers, to help the student to understand the different meanings of apparently similar syntactic alternatives. The norms of 'correct expression' are given together with current usage and deviations, and appendixes provide information on the 1990 spelling reforms and on numbers. A substantial index of French and English words and of topics provides easy access to the text itself.

From the #1 website for moms-to-be, pregnancy and parenting lifestyle destination The Bump, ​comes​ a keepsake planner and journal with all the essential pregnancy ​tools and checklists. Excitement and anticipation...Nausea and sleepless nights...All par for the course for pregnancy. Moms-to-be have many questions and emotions, and this planner and organizer addresses both their practical and sentimental needs. The keepsake format allows parents to record everything from feelings and cravings to doctor appointments and baby shower gifts (helpful for when pregnancy brain sets in!), and it also includes 3 pockets for sonograms, photos, and mementoes from the first trimester through the baby's first months. With an additional see-through pocket in the cover for slipping in a personal photo (either of a growing baby bump or a 3D ultrasound), this chic binder is essential for organization, as well as a memory book to save for years to come.