Identifies four stages of development between the ages of one and four, explaining to parents how to speak a toddler's language in each stage and handle such issues as tantrums, biting, sleeping problems, toilet learning, picky eating, stuttering, and separation anxiety.

"Revised and updated with more than 50 new games and the latest brain research, this book is filled with activities to promote brain development for children from 12 to 36 months"--

The irascible A.J. Fikry, owner of Island Books, the only bookstore on Alice Island, has already lost his wife. Now, a rare book, has been stolen from right under his nose in the most embarrassing of circumstances. The store itself, it seems, will be next to go. One night upon closing, he discovers a toddler in his children's section with a note from her mother pinned to her Elmo doll: "I want Maya to grow up in a place with books and among people...