Item category 1: Parents and carers

'Weaning' guides you through every aspect of weaning your baby, with advice on when to start weaning, which foods to introduce first, how to prepare foods safely, and how to spoon feed purées and solid foods. With up-to-date information on allergies and intolerances, advice on how to encourage b...

Midwife Pip is on a mission to help every parent-to-be to feel informed and prepared for birth. With the right education and support, she firmly believes that all births - whether planned or unplanned, assisted, caesarean, waterbirth or hypnobirth - can be positive. Packed with evidence-based inf...

Change is impossible to avoid because it happens all the time! In this book, the author speaks about how to cope with and embrace life's expected and unexpected turns by telling personal stories and asking kids thought-provoking questions. Empathetic and encouraging, this book emphasises talking ...

Start the first few months of your baby's life with confidence and learn how to encourage your baby to get good sleep with baby sleep expert Heidi Skudder. With 19 years of hands-on experience working with and empowering families, combined with a coaching and psychology background, alongside her ...

The ultimate parenting handbook for LGBTQ+ people, from the hosts of the award-winning podcast Some Families.

Fox is feeling grumpy. She doesn't want to play with her friends. While her pals go on a boat trip, Fox runs off to her favourite place - the lighthouse - determined to have more fun on her own. However, when a storm breaks, her friends become stuck at sea. Will Fox be able to show how much she t...

Jo Frost guides us through the parenting subjects that she is constantly asked about: what do you do about bedwetting, bullying or biting and what happens when your child has to go to school, to the dentist or to the doctor; how can you create calm mealtimes and bedtimes and what can be done when...

Ben was adopted by his gay parents - Dad David & Baba Chris - when he was four years old, & they live happily together in an ordinary house, on an ordinary street & do ordinary things. When Ben starts junior school his ordinary life is turned upside down. Some children begin to tease Ben because ...

'Yummy Little Belly' is packed full of easy, colourful, tasty and healthy meal ideas for babies and toddlers from 6 months plus.

From the outbreak of the Crimean War to the founding of the NHS, 'The Story of Britain's Black Nurses' spans some of the UK's toughest times, its trials, tribulations and the triumphs and grit of its heroic nurses.