Working Parents: Resource List
Books for Children
Ages 4 to 8
- A Chair For My Mother; by Vera Williams; William Morrow, 1993
- A.J.'S Mom Gets a New Job: Adjusting to a Two-Career Family; by Lawrence Balter, Roz Schanzer (illustrator); Barron's, 1990
- Mama's Coming Home; by Kate Banks; Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003
- The Berenstain Bears and Mama's New Job; by Stan Berenstain; Econo Clad Books, 1999
- When Mama Gets Home; by Marisabina Russo; Greenwillow, 1998
Ages 7 to 10
- If You Were A Writer; by Joan Lowery Nixon; Econo-Clad Books, 1999
- Mama's Birthday Surprise; by Elizabeth Spurr, Felipe Davalos (illustrator); Hyperion Books for Children, 1996
- My Mom's A Vet; by Henry Horenstein; Demco Media, 1996
- My Working Mom; by Peter Glassman, Tedd Arnold (illustrator); Morrow Junior Books, 1994
- Ramona and Her Mother; by Beverly Cleary; Econo-Clad Books, 1999
Young Adult
- Misty and Me; by Barbara Girion; Econo Clad Books, 1999
Books for Adults
- Food Fights and Bedtime Battles: A Working Parents Guide to Negotiating Dialy Power Struggles; Berkeley Publ Group, 2001
- Parent's Guide to Business Travel: Practical Advice and Wisdom for When You Have to Be Away; by Charlie Hudson; Capital Books, 2003
- Positive Discipline for Working Parents: Raising Responsible, Respectful and Resourceful Children When You Work Outside the Home; by Jane Nelsen; Rima Publishing, 2003
- The Working Mother Book of Time: How to Take It, Make It, Save It, and Savor It; by Working Mother Magazine; St. Martin's Griffin, 2000
- What Happy Working Mothers Know: How New Findings in Positive Psychology Can Lead to a Healthy and Happy Work/Life Balance; by Cathy Greenberg; Wiley, 2009
- Working Fathers: New Strategies for Balancing Work and Family; by James A. Levine and Todd L. Pittinsky; Harvest Books, 1998
Compiled by Catherine Smith, MLS, medical librarian at the Family Health Library, The Children's Hospital, Denver, CO.
Pediatric Advisor 2012.1 published by RelayHealth.
Last modified: 2010-06-04
Last reviewed: 2010-06-04
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