The Book Sense Parenting Bestseller List

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For the four-week period ending August 22, 2004, and based on sales reporting by hundreds of independent bookstores across the U.S.

Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677.

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The Book Sense Parenting Bestseller List
1. What to Expect the First Year
Heidi Murkoff, Workman, $15.95, 0761129588
2. Queen Bees & Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends & Other Realities of Adolescence
Rosalind Wiseman, Three Rivers, $14.95, 1400047927
3. The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer
Harvey Karp, Bantam, $13.95, 0553381466
4. The Three-Martini Playdate: A Practical Guide to Happy Parenting
Christie Mellor, Chronicle, $12.95, 0811840549
5. Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child
Marc Weissbluth, Ballantine, $14.95, 0449004023
6. Fun on the Run! For Kids
Cynthia L. Copeland, Workman, $8.95, 0761134484
7. The American Academy of Pediatrics Complete and Authoritative Guide: Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5 (Revised Ed.)
Steven P. Shelov, M.D. and Robert E. Hannemann, M.D. (Eds.), Bantam, $20, 055338290X
8. The Twelve Gifts of Birth
Charlene Costanza, HarperCollins, $19.95, 0066211042
9. How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
Adele Faber, Quill, $13.95, 0380811960
10. 45,000+ Baby Names
Bruce Lansky, Meadowbrook, $6.95, 0684030896
11. Secrets of the Baby Whisperer
Tracy Hogg, Ballantine, $13.95, 0345440900
12. Father to Daughter
Harry H. Harrison, Jr., Workman, $7.95, 0761129774
13. The Happiest Toddler on the Block
Harvey Karp, Bantam, $22.95, 0553802569
14. Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Anne Lamott, Fawcett, $12.95, 044990928X
15. A Mind at a Time: America's Top Learning Expert Shows How Every Child Can Succeed
Mel Levine, S&S, $14, 0743202236
16. Be Prepared: A Practical Handbook for New Dads
Gary Greenberg, S&S, $11.95, 0743251547
17. Raising Your Spirited Child: A Guide for Parents Whose Child Is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, Energetic
Mary Sheedy Kurcinka, Perennial, $13, 0060923288
18. Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
Mary Pipher, Ballantine, $14.95, 0345392825
19. Confessions of a Slacker Mom
Muffy Mead-Ferro, Da Capo Press, $12.95, 0738209945
20. 40,001 Best Baby Names
Diane Stafford, Sourcebooks, $8.95, 1402201036
21. The Essential 55 Workbook: Everything You Need to Help Your Child Succeed in School
Ron Clark, Hyperion, $12.95, 1401307701
22. Baby Signs: How to Talk with Your Baby Before Your Baby Can Talk
Linda Acredolo, McGraw-Hill, $15.95, 0071387765
23. Get Out of My Life, But First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall? A Parent's Guide to the New Teenager
Anthony E. Wolf, FSG, $13, 0374528535
24. Odd Girl Out
Rachel Simmons, Harvest, $14, 0156027348
25. The Out-Of-Sync Child
Carol Stock Kranowitz, Perigee, $14.95, 0399523863
26. The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children
Ross W. Greene, Perennial Currents, $14, 0060931027
27. Your Baby & Child: From Birth to Age Five
Penelope Leach, Knopf, $20, 0375700005
28.

Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys
Daniel J. Kindlon, Ballantine, $15, 0345434854

29. How to Get Your Child to Love Reading
Esme Raji Codell, Algonquin, $18.95, 1565123085
30. Parenting with Love and Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility
Foster Cline, M.D. and Jim Fay, Navpress, $21, 0891093117
31. Cool Names for Babies
Pamela Redmond Satran, St. Martin's, $9.95, 0312304390
32. Letting Go: A Parents' Guide to Understanding the College Years (Fourth Ed.)
Karen Levin Coburn and Madge Lawrence Treeger, Perennial Currents, $13.95, 0060521260
33. The Expectant Father: Facts, Tips, and Advice for Dads-To-Be
Armin A. Brott, Abbeville, $11.95, 0789205386
34. The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night
Elizabeth Pantley, McGraw-Hill, $14.95, 0071381392
35. The Indigo Children: The New Kids Have Arrived
Lee Carroll, Light Technology, $13.95, 1561706086
36. Touchpoints: Your Child's Emotional and Behavioral Development
T. Berry Brazelton, Da Capo Press, $18.95, 020162690X
37. First Meals: The Complete Cookbook and Nutrition Guide
Annabel Karmel, DK, $20, 075660365X
38. The Baby Owner's Manual: Operating Instructions, Trouble-Shooting Tips, and Advice on First-Year Maintenance
Louis Borgenicht, M.D. and Joe Borgenicht, Quirk, $14.95, 1931686238
39. The Myth of Laziness
Melvin D. Levine, S&S, $13, 0743213688
40. Cursed by a Happy Childhood: Tales of Growing Up, Then and Now
Carl Lennertz, Harmony, $19.95, 1400050456