A family is distressed when Daddy gets the chicken pox, but when he recovers it is a joyous occasion.

Peppy rhymes present the humorous side to a common ailment

Based on the author's childhood, this story follows a family through the first half of the twentieth century in Ohio and West Virginia. The father, an avid spelunker, manages caverns open to the public. The children's lives are filled with fun and adventure, until unknown forces destroy life as they know it. While they had faced tragedy, loss of loved ones, and a bushwhacker's bullet, nothing prepares them for what happens next. When their father struggles to restore order to his family, and the children yearn for what they had lost, a stranger appears and helps bring the magic back into their lives.

'My Dad the Crab' is a novel for younger readers about a 9-year-old boy called Alex Wilson who just can't help finding mysteries in every place he looks. Little does Alex realise, when he begins investigating why his Nan has been crying, that the most important mystery of his life is only just beginning.

Millions of children are born every year and millions more parents enter blindly into the arena of parenthood without any knowledge of what they need to do. For fathers especially, this first time leap can be overwhelming a complex and confusing time in their lives. There are many things that need to be learned and many more things that need to be perfected in those early weeks and months and for some it can be nerve-racking to try and figure it all out. This book was written for every father who every wanted to understand those essential basics of starting for the first time in child rearing. You will learn everything starting with your new-born child, including what they will look like, how to handle the baby, taking photographs, what to expect from your spouse after she gives birth, how the baby will be fed, burping, changing nappies, and the many different ways in which your household will change with a new-born in it, from the location of your possessions to your pets and how they must be treated and interacted with. You will learn how to clean a young child, how to deal with crying and late night feedings, getting sleep, getting your child to sleep, getting back to work for the first time, dressing your child, and how to take them out of the house. Experts have been interviewed and their expertise has been included here to provide a complete perspective on how to approach children as a first time father. You will learn how to maintain your sanity and when you might expect your sex life to resume. You will learn how to deal with health issues your child may have, how to deal with teething, and where to take a young child. You will learn how to let other people interact with your child and when to start feeding them solid foods, as well as the necessary baby proofing that needs to be done when they start crawling and later walking. Learn what to expect from growing children and how to play with them effectively. Learn about bathing and haircuts and how your role as a father will vary from that of the mother depending on who is working and how much. No matter what your situation is, this book will guide you through the earliest weeks of your child s life to the growing, learning phases of their toddler years as you learn how to be a father for the first time.

"Woman, tell me, whose child is this?" A dirty deal left her with a hidden knot. She thought that this happy wedding was just a bet! Five years later, with a child that did not belong to him, the reborn girl returned to his side once more, "Man, this time I will give you a child, but ... I need to use your life in exchange! "

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It's finally summer and Amber Brown is going to London to visit her aunt Pam and then to Paris to visit with her father. She is one excited kid before she goes. And one itchy kid when she arrives. Mosquito bites, she thinks. Chicken pox, she finds out. Is her vacation completely ruined? And now that she can't go to Paris, how will she be able to convince her dad to move back home?

Charles Wheeler spent his early years in the idyllic surroundings of the Lake District of northern England. But when he was eight years old his father returned from war service and the family moved south to their cramped home in north London. There they joined an "assembly of saints" of the Open Brethren, and so began eight years of a strict and exclusive religious upbringing. Sexually assaulted by an older boy, forbidden to write to his childhood sweetheart, and subtly pressurized into conversion, Charles twice came close to making his escape-first by running away to the Shetland Islands, and later, wracked by guilt over making a false conversion, by using his father's revolver. His escape was achieved when he joined the Royal Navy at the age of sixteen; but conversion to Catholicism and marriage to a Roman Catholic caused a tragic family schism, and it was not until long after his father's death that he was at last able to find intellectual equilibrium.

An only child, Shanni Jefferson doesn't do family. Buttemporarily homeless and jobless, she jumps at the offerof a live-in nannying position. How hard can it be to lookafter one little baby? Pierce MacLachlan has been economical with the truth—instead of one child, there are five! He's out of his depthwith the unruly yet lovable brood.… But every night, once the children are all safely tucked inbed, Shanni wonders whether family life—with gorgeousPierce—might suit her after all.…