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April 27, 2010

Sometimes a children's story does a much better job of impressing a point on a toddler than anything we as parents can say or do. So we hit up the inspired child development experts at Seedlings Group for a list of great children's books to address everything from tantrums and sharing to sickness and feelings—for those days when our own parenting skills seem to be falling short. 

TANTRUMS 
• When Sophie Gets Angry—Really Really Angry, by Molly Bang
• Mouse was Mad, by Linda Urban and Henry Cole
• Finn Throws a Fit, by David Elliott and Timothy Basil Ering 
• The Chocolate Covered Cookie Tantrum, by Deborah Blumenthal and Harvey Stevenson 
• Beatrice Doesn’t Want To, by Laura Numeroff and Lynn Munsinger

CHORES 
• How Do Dinosaurs Clean Their Rooms?, by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague 
• The Berenstain Bears and the Trouble with Chores, by Stan Berenstain

PARENTAL LOVE 
• You Are My I Love You, by Maryann K. Cusimano 
• I Love You Through And Through, by Bernadette Rossetti Shustak 
• Guess How Much I Love You, by Sam McBratney and Anita Jeram

SHARING/FRIENDS 
• The Rainbow Fish, by Marcus Pfister Herbert 
• How Do Dinosaurs Play with Their Friends?, by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague 
• A Visitor for Bear, by Bonny Becker and Kady MacDonald Denton 
• The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog, by Mo Williams 
• But Excuse Me, That is My Book, by Lauren Child 
• A Splendid Friend, Indeed, by Suzanne Bloom

PERSEVERENCE 
• The Little Engine That Could, by Loren Long

EATING 
• How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?, by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague 
• Bread and Jam for Frances, by Russell Hoban and Lillian Hoban 
• Little Pea, by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

NEW SIBLING 
• How to Be a Baby by Me, the Big Sister, by Sally Lloyd-Jones and Sue Heap 
• The New Baby, by Ruth Shane 
• Baby Come Out!, by Fran Manushkin

FEELINGS 
• My Many Colored Days, by Theodor Geisel - Dr. Seuss 
• Grumpy Gloria, by Anna Dewdney 
• Bear Feels Scared, by Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman 
• Llama Llama Mad at Mama, by Anna Dewdney 
• Today I Feel Silly, by Jamie Lee Curtis 
• Mrs. Biddlebox, by Linda smith 
• Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, by Judith Viorst

MOVING 
• The Berenstain Bears' Moving Day, by Stan Berenstain 
• Big Ernie’s New Home, by Teresa Martin and Whitney Martin

VALUES 
• A Chair for My Mother, by Vera B. Williams

POTTY 
• Big Girls Use the Potty!, by Andrea Pinnington 
• Once Upon a Potty, by Alona Frankel 
• Everyone Poops, by Taro Gomi 
• No More Diapers for Ducky, by Bernette Ford and Sam Williams 
• A Potty for Me!, by Karen Katz

SICKNESS 
• Bear Feels Sick, by Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman 
• How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon?, by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague 
• The Berenstain Bears Get a Checkup, by Stan Berenstain

SEPARATION 
• Don’t Go, by Jane Breskin Zalben 
• Llama Llama Misses Mama, by Anna Dewdney 
• The Kissing Hand, by Audrey Penn

GOING TO SLEEP 
• The Going to Bed Book, by Sandra Boynton 
• How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?, by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague 

ADOPTION 
• Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born, by Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell 
• The Little Green Goose, by Adele Sansone 
• Over the Moon: An Adoption Tale, by Karen Katz

TWO MOMS/TWO DADS 
• Mommy, Mama, and Me, by Lesléa Newman 
• The Family Book, by Todd Parr 
• Daddy, Papa, and Me, by Lesléa Newman

PACIFIERS 
• Pacifiers are Not Forever, by Elizabeth Verdick and Marieka Heinlen 
• No More Pacifiers!, by Melanie O’Brien

MOVING TO A TODDLER BED
• Sophie's Big Bed, by Tina Burke

DIVORCE 
• Two Homes, by Claire Masurel 
• It’s Not Your Fault, Koko Bear, by Vicki Lansky 
• Dinosaurs Divorce, by Marc Brown

PHYSICAL AGGRESSION 
• Teeth Are Not for Biting, by Elizabeth Verdick and Marieka Heinlen 
• Hands Are Not for Hitting, by Martine Agassi Ph.D. and Marieka Heinlen 
• No Biting!, by Karen Katz 
• No Hitting!, by Karen Katz

BULLIES 
• Let’s Be Enemies, by Janice May Udry

BEING UNIQUE 
• Freckleface Strawberry, by Julianne Moore 
• Big Dog . . . Little Dog, by P.D. Eastman 
• A Color of His Own, by Leo Lionni

NIGHTMARES
• There’s a Nightmare in My Closet, by Mercer Mayer

DEATH 
• Remembering Grandpa, by Uma Krishnaswami

SCHOOL 
• WOW School, by Robert Neubecker 
• I Am Absolutely Too Small for School, by Lauren Child

CONCEPT OF TIME 
• A Second is a Hiccup: A Child’s Book of Time, by Hazel Hutchins

CURIOSITY 
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle 
• What Do You Do With a Tale Like This?, by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page 
• Where do Balloons Go?: An Uplifting Mystery, by Jamie Lee Curtis

CRIB BEDDING IS YOUR BABY'S FASHION STATEMENT!

Cool babies love chic crib bedding!

Baby bedding has burst forth, free from the usual pink, blue, and yellow into a rainbow of brights. Designers are casting their talents into this world of the nursery and the results means flat out fun for the baby's room. New and expectant moms can now start  the design process with an incredible bedding design, pick up on the primary or a leading color in the print, and spread that joy throughout the room. Use a swatch of this fabric to pick paint colors, choose a coordinated fabric for the curtains and cushions, and begin to create a coordinated and well conceived design plan. 

Cool design, upbeat fashion statements, and creative thinking have made their way into the baby's nursery. 

If you're a tuned in, turned out mom who has moved past poly/cotton, look at all the ways to say hip baby. There are bright happy patterns, charming embroideries, custom monograms, scallops and polka dots, that will define the look for your baby's room. 

Meet Lulu de Kwiatkowski, a cool young mom with an extraordinary design talent who 

has created an incredible line of crib linens. 

Her ideas go far beyond what was traditionally thought of as nursery design, and 

she has brought a joyful new perspective to baby's rooms.

Our company, Baby Decorator, seeks out design talent like Lulu so that we can create incredible nurseries. We have put together a cool collection of crib bedding to make any fashionista mama smile. There are coordinated collections of sheets, baby pillows, crib bumpers, coverlets, crib skirts, even duvet covers in coordinating colors and prints that make the nursery into a special, charming world for your baby. Parents have discovered the designer nursery that's in sync with their own love of today's hip interiors.  

Gone are the prissy pastels and nubby polyester sheets. Natural fibers and luxe details define today's crib bedding.  

Contemporary nursery fashion comes with bubbles and bows, jolly prints, in fully coordinated bedding ensembles. 

Our design studio chooses luxe fabrications from the interior design market and creates beautiful bassinets

 which coordinate with the sweetest of fairy tale papers and furnishings. 

This collection of 100% pure and organic sheeting comes in an entirely innovative

range of colors and is all packed neatly into its coordinated sack.

And then there's personalized embroidery which makes these 

linens the baby's very own. Monograms and smocking make a beautiful,  luxurious addition. 

Zoo pals make sweet baby nurseries.  This complete set of bedding from bumper, to crib skirt, 

to pillow and crib quilt embraces jolly penguins who make baby giggle. 

A nautical nursery showcases red, white, and blue in exquisite embroideries on fine percale 

for crib sets that look as crisp in winter as they would be in the breeze at the seashore.

 Designers have captured our hearts with the charming collections they create for your baby's nursery.
Next time we'll show you how to add the remaining parts, the cribs, and the furnishings to make it your own. 

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