Offers advice on planning a family vacation, and suggests travel activities and games.

An index to children's craft books published since 1991. Provides a guide to craft instructions alphabetically by project, or by type of material used.

From the creators of the Penny Whistle party books comes a delightful collection of great party ideas for any time at all. Complete with recipes, activities, and specific instructions, The Penny Whistle Any Day is a Party Book gives you reason to celebrate 365 days of the year. Line drawings throughout.

Make every Trip an Adventure with Penny Whistle They say getting there is half the fun, but all too often the stress of being away from home and the frustration of being confined in a car, plane, train, hotel room, or even someone else's home combine to turn a simple trip into a painful experience for parents and kids. But with The Penny Whistle Traveling with Kids Book parents and kids will find everything they need to make travel time fun time. Full of inventive advice and helpful hints, The Penny Whistle Traveling with Kids Book will show parents how to: Involve the whole family in planning the trip Pack so you're prepared for anything Create a Penny Whistle Travel Box. Travel Backpack, & First-Aid Kit Keep kids occupied on the road with games for every age & interest PLUS:Creative solutions and travel experiences from parents and kids, a Travel Exercise Program, What to Do When Your Child Travels Alone, Delicious Roadside Picnics and Traveling Snacks, and much, much more!

Millions of parents take their child to the hospital each year for stitches, outpatient surgery, or longer stays for serious illnesses. Your Child in the Hospital: A Practical Guide for Parents is packed with sensible tips and home-grown wisdom that will make any visit to the hospital easier. It explains how cope with procedures, plan for surgery, communicate with doctors and nurses, and deal with insurance companies. Woven throughout the text are dozens of practical and encouraging stories from parents who have been through the experience of having a child in the hospital. This new edition contains a packing list, hospital journal for children, and helpful resources for parents.

This text, while strongly academic, comprehensive, practical, and contemporary, offers an exceptionally warm and personalized writing style appropriate to the subject matter. It offers both a multi-diciplinary approach and a cross-cultural perspective. Unique Caring Insight feature supplies practical, helpful, tips for the reader. Chapter 12, Resources, is a comprehensive guide to organizations, periodicals, books, and Web sites.

A healing dose of fun for sick kids and the parents who love them! Whether your preschooler is home with the chicken pox, or your fifth-grader is laid up with a broken leg, The Penny Whistle SICK-IN-BED BOOK comes to the rescue with a delightful collection of absorbing activities to occupy young patients, and advice and ideas for their parents, from setting up a sickroom to helping a bedridden child stay physically fit. In this book, concerned parents will find: Games, crafts, and activities to be enjoyed alone or with friends and family Inventive ways of keeping up with schoolwork "It worked for me" anecdotes and tips from parents and kids Advice on coping with the special physical and emotional needs of a sick child Videotapes, audiotapes, and books that will engage and stimulate a child's imagination If laughter is the best medicine, then The Penny Whistle SICK-IN-BED BOOK is just what the doctor ordered.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Autobiographical.