It's Time to Give Up Your Pacifier (The Transition Times Series)
PreS—Each book tackles a problematic transition that many children go through.BedandSit Stillinclude a small story about a child with the title concern and how the parents solve it. The other two are more universal, highlighting a series of different situations and depicting a multiethnic cast of children. The illustrations are amateurish, portraying round-headed, round-eyed children on pastel backgrounds. The back matter includes step-by-step advice in handling the title situation, a Web site to help, and a disclaimer stating that the publisher is not "engaged in rendering psychological or other professional services." Perhaps not, but these titles read more like an attempt at self-help books for children and their parents than any form of literature. There are plenty of good books that deal with developmental issues. Leave these titles for the pediatrician's office.—Amy Lilien-Harper, The Ferguson Library, Stamford, CTCopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.