What exactly is a marsupial? Why do the babies go into their mother's pouches? How long do they stay there? These are just a few of the questions that bestselling author Ginjer L. Clarke explains in her newest book that covers over twenty different kinds of marsupials, including kangaroos, koalas, and more!

Feed your baby better, save money, and waste less with the homemade puree recipes in 101 DIY Baby Food Pouches. Starting your baby on solids is an exciting developmental period that comes with many choices and some challenges. With baby keeping you very busy already, the convenience and portability of prepackaged, squeezable purees, are hard to resist—but they are expensive, and laden with preservatives. Lucky for you, making homemade purees is easier than you may think! 101 DIY Baby Food Pouches gives you the guidance, confidence, and inspiration you need to make food pouches at home. With just a little coaching, you will: ·Save money with homemade food pouches ·Make healthy choices by picking every fresh ingredient to add to your pouch ·Reduce waste by reusing your DIY pouches again and again ·Always be ready for meals by making purees in batches and freezing them for later ·Easily combine flavors and experiment with new foodsThe book conveniently divides the recipes by savory and sweet combinations. Savory recipes include Sweet Potato and Kale; Asparagus, Chickpea, and Sweet Potato; and Kidney Beans, Parsnip, Beets, and Beef. Sweet recipes include Apricot Raspberry Puree and Plum, Apple, Mint, and Yogurt. Ideal for parents always on the go, 101 DIY Baby Food Pouches includes instructions for filling your own pouches and—you guessed it—101 recipes to inspire you. DIY food pouches are cheaper, healthier, and eco-friendly—the perfect solution for busy families. Ready, set...pouch!

Food consumption is a significant and complex social activity—and what a society chooses to feed its children reveals much about its tastes and ideas regarding health. In this groundbreaking historical work, Amy Bentley explores how the invention of commercial baby food shaped American notions of infancy and influenced the evolution of parental and pediatric care. Until the late nineteenth century, infants were almost exclusively fed breast milk. But over the course of a few short decades, Americans began feeding their babies formula and solid foods, frequently as early as a few weeks after birth. By the 1950s, commercial baby food had become emblematic of all things modern in postwar America. Little jars of baby food were thought to resolve a multitude of problems in the domestic sphere: they reduced parental anxieties about nutrition and health; they made caretakers feel empowered; and they offered women entering the workforce an irresistible convenience. But these baby food products laden with sugar, salt, and starch also became a gateway to the industrialized diet that blossomed during this period. Today, baby food continues to be shaped by medical, commercial, and parenting trends. Baby food producers now contend with health and nutrition problems as well as the rise of alternative food movements. All of this matters because, as the author suggests, it’s during infancy that American palates become acclimated to tastes and textures, including those of highly processed, minimally nutritious, and calorie-dense industrial food products.

"Meet Oliver, a young kangaroo whose mother has decided to help another family to have a child. Go wtih him as he takes you through - step-by-step - the wonderful journey of surrogacy!"--Back cover.

A follow-on to DK's successful Animal Families, this new book lures its readers into a magical world populated by appealing young creatures. Within its pages, children can see a baby beaver help build a dam, baby chicks learn to scratch for food, baby chipmunks scurry up a tree, and baby walruses bask on an iceberg in the sun. Wherever they live, baby animals do many of the same things that human youngsters do: play, eat, sleep, and find adventure. Including every kind of animal from birds and insects to mammals and reptiles, Animal Babies delivers a huge amount of information in a storybook-like style. The gripping and easily absorbed facts will inspire early readers to find out even more about each creature's life, habits, and habitat.

In the only book on baby care based on an understanding of how a newborn interprets the world, occupational therapist Megan Faure and nursing specialist Ann Richardson explain how parents can help their newborn cope with his new environment. Offering age-appropriate advice on sleeping, eating, and early learning, as well as the basic sensory principles, Baby Sense is the perfect tool for every parent who has ever wondered why a baby is crying--and how to soothe him.

A guide to sugar gliders including correcting several myths about these amazing creatures and how to properly purchase a sugar glider. Sugar gliders are known to have some magical black markings over their face, legs and back. Measuring about five to six inches from head to body, have a bushy lovely tail with of equal length. They are small and light weight and an adult weighs about 4-6 ounces (115~160g). Males are larger than females as they fall into infraclass of marsupialia in animal classification, they have several features n common with in the class. One common is the structure of their reproductive organs, dentition and a very short gestation period. The young take a long development period. Just like most of other marsupials, the female sugar glider has a pouch where they carry baby gliders.