Baby Gear

Sally Lee Parents Magazine. Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press, $14.95 (208pp) ISBN 978-0-312-26290-7

Written by the editors of Parents magazine with Debra Wise, Baby Gear: Everything You Need to Clothe, Feed, Transport, Protect, Entertain and Care for Your Baby tells parents-to-be all they need to know about strollers, booster seats, pacifiers, car seats, layettes, sunscreens, nursing bras, diaper bags, safety gates and numerous other essentials. Focusing on baby's first three years, the book offers shopping tips and decodes the prevailing safety tests and seals. Legions of the newly bleary and bewildered are sure to seek this out. ( July)

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