childbirth

During World War II, while his father is in Europe fighting and his mother is working in Chicago, a five-year-old boy goes to live with his grandmother in a rural Norwegian American community in Minnesota. Based on events from the author's life.

Martha longs to leave her island home off the Louisiana coast and go to high school where she can learn more than the ways of her midwife grandmother and perhaps someday broaden the lives of the superstitious villagers.

New photographs of life before birth and up-to-date advice for expectant parents.

Depicts the birth of a child from fertilization to delivery, and focuses on development of life in the womb using special technology, and provides over 350 colorful photographs and commentary.

Traces the history of making and having babies, exploring what doctors and ordinary men and women have believed about pregnancy and childbirth from ancient times to the twentieth century and explaining how attitudes have evolved in that time.

Three-dimensional pop-up illustrations depict the male and female reproductive organs, growth of the fetus, and the actual birth process. With accompanying text.

Uses bird and bee cartoon characters to answer questions that younger children frequently ask about the human body.

Grandma tells her grandchild the story of the child's birth and how they both hurried to make it there on time.

Introduces the rites and rituals surrounding the birth of a child in the six major world religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.