The Essential Partnership: How Parents and Children Can Meet the Emotional Challenges of Infancy...

Stanley I. Greenspan. Penguin Books, $8.95 (272pp) ISBN 978-0-14-009374-2

The authors counsel parents of infants and children through age five, based on Stanley Greenspan's experiences as a psychiatrist with a pediatric practice in Washington, D.C. According to PW , ``Readers will find the Greenspans' recommendations eminently useful.'' Author tour. (May)

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