Product Description

Providing the most current information on the diseases and disorders of childhood, this is an essential guide for parents with children from newborns up to 11 years.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #105652 in Books
• Published on: 2006-03-06
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

From Booklist
Published in association with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), this guide provides information for parents of children up to the age of 11 years. It includes all aspects of physical growth and health as well as emotional and intellectual development. The color-coded sections make it easy to find specific information, and the illustrations demonstrate both symptoms and proper techniques for care and treatment.

The book starts out with sections for infants and young children. Each includes information about growth and development and diagnosis charts for common symptoms. There are also sections on diseases and disorders by organ system and on first aid. "Making Sense of Health Care Information" is a useful essay that tells readers how to evaluate what they find in books, online, and in advertisements. A resource list provides contact information for government and nonprofit agencies offering information about children's health, but there is no bibliography.

Although the fourth edition of AAP's Caring for Your Baby and Child: Birth to Age 5 was published in 2004, the new DK title is more recent than AAP's Caring for Your School-Age Child: Ages 5-12 (1999) and Guide to Your Child's Symptoms (1997). It is a useful addition to public and consumer-health library collections and priced so that those with sufficient funds could purchase both reference and circulating copies. It is also a good choice for the home. Barbara Bibel
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About the Author
Medical Editor-in-Chief Jennifer Shu, MD is a board-certified pediatrician practicing in San Diego.

The American Academy of Pediatrics is an organization of 57,000 primary care pediatricians and specialists dedicated to the health, safety, and well-being of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.

Customer Reviews

Extremely helpful
This is a great book. Our pediatrician recommended this to us and I'm glad he did. We are new parents and it has great ideas and parenting tips for new babies as well as information on health questions for children of any age. I'm sure we will continue to use it for many years to come.

Good for childcare reference
This book is beautifully designed, with gorgeous pictures and attractive layouts. It is a very good "reference" book for general child healthcare topics as well as a pretty neat diagnosis section that I think all new moms can appreciate. (Sometimes we need to know a quick answer - ie. rash = ?). The book is written from a pretty clinical perpective, however, so if your looking for any reflection that goes along with these topics, this book is not the book for you.

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