Benjamin Spock, Author National Press Books $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-882605-12-5
Unlike some of Dr. Spock's 16 previous books, this one does not offer specific advice about children for their parents. Instead, the venerable Spock (Baby and Child Care), now 91, writes in support of ``spiritual values,'' expounds on what he...
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Benjamin Spock, Author Simon & Schuster $17.45 (318p) ISBN 978-0-671-63958-7
Spock's Baby and Child Care has been a steady success for decades, and this new volume, although disappointing, will probably be a bestseller as well. Combining excerpts from his column in Redbook and original material, the guide presents Spock's...
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Benjamin Spock, Author, Mary Morgan, Editor Pantheon Books $19.95 (281p) ISBN 978-0-394-57813-2
Guru of permissive parenting to a generation, the author of Baby and Child Care turns out to have been a fairly strict parent himself. Spock, now 86, was an obedient pupil at a New Haven ``open-air'' experimental school in 1912, a woefully...
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Benjamin Spock, Author, Martin Stein, Editor, Marjorie Greenfield, Author Pocket Books $14.95 (180p) ISBN 978-0-7434-1122-6
Pocket Books is releasing two companion collections of essays by the bestselling Benjamin Spock, the author of Baby and Child Care, one of the most widely read parenting books ever written. Both are edited by Spock collaborator Martin T. Stein....
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Benjamin Spock, Author, Martin Stein, Editor, Marjorie Greenfield, Author Pocket Books $20.95 (308p) ISBN 978-0-7434-1123-3
The sequel, Dr. Spock's The School Years, addresses the preschool years through adolescence, tackling issues like sibling rivalry, education, popularity, discipline, drugs and alcohol, peer pressure, stress, interfering grandparents, calling...
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