This text's five-step learning model helps students improve interpersonal competence in well defined ways--through conceptual understanding, modeling of realistic examples, practicing of skill-building exercises, self assessment, and translating learning into behavior. Its pedagogy, examples, and suggestions for practice provide the reader with continuous reinforcement.

Product Description: A little brown puppy, a little baby turtle, a snowy white kitten, and other baby animal friends each find a present for their mamas! A story of love and togetherness to share with little ones all year long -- now in a hands-on board book format just right for the littlest readers!Safe for all ages...read more

Follows, in rhyming text and illustrations, the activities of a variety of animal mothers as they care for their babies

Product Description: Getting ready for sleepy time has never been so sweet. It’s time to put on pajamas, snuggle up, and look forward to all the happy adventures and togetherness that God will bring tomorrow. Help your child wind down with this imaginative lullaby with whimsical illustrations, and then drift off to sleep reassured of your unconditional love and affection...read more

Product Description: "I love you." "How much?" "SO much." "How much is SO?" "Way, WAY more than you know."I Love You So... puts into words the often indescribable quality of boundless, steady, and unconditional love. This comforting story embraces the reader like a warm hug and gently reassures a child that love is for always-despite the grouchy moods or physical separation...read more

Product Description: Discover a treasure trove of beautifully illustrated books with our new series, G&D Vintage! Featuring books from our Wonder Books line originally published in the 1940s, '50s, and '60s, there’s something for every reader in these timeless stories accompanied by classic illustrations...read more

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE -- nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best PictureTo five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. . . . It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it's the prison where she has been held for seven years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in this eleven-by-eleven-foot space. But with Jack's curiosity building alongside her own desperation, she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer.Room is a tale at once shocking, riveting, exhilarating--a story of unconquerable love in harrowing circumstances, and of the diamond-hard bond between a mother and her child.

The horror creature that menaced American moviegoers in the 1950s returns in a chilling story of a creeping, crawling, seeping, mauling monster

Gather your little cubs and snuggle up for bedtime with Starry Night, Hold Me Tight. It is a story full of humor, love, and motherly wisdom, intermixed with wintry activities such as sledding and making snow angels. In this charming picture book, Baby Bear learns how to share with friends, put away his toys, and that throwing snowballs at Momma Bear is not polite! With warm, lovable verse and simplistic, adorable illustrations, this book will turn nighttime routines into treasured time together.

Product Description: Little Mouse is very scared. He's frightened of everything. Mommy Mouse, who's always at his side, explains things to him and makes him safe. What Are You Scared of, Little Mouse? is a tender tale that helps the youngest children overcome their fears...read more

A mother tiger entices her child to sleep by telling of all that can be seen with one's eyes closed.

An Italian Wife is the extraordinary story of Josephine Rimaldi her joys, sorrows, and passions, spanning more than seven decades. The novel begins in turn-of-the-century Italy, when fourteen-year-old Josephine, sheltered and naive, is forced into an arranged marriage to a man she doesn't know or love who is about to depart for America, where she later joins him. Bound by tradition, Josephine gives birth to seven children. The last, Valentina, is conceived in passion, born in secret, and given up for adoption. Josephine spends the rest of her life searching for her lost child, keeping her secret even as her other children go off to war, get married, and make their own mistakes. Her son suffers in World War One. One daughter struggles to assimilate in the new world of the 1950s American suburbs, while another, stranded in England, grieves for a lover lost in World War Two. Her granddaughters experiment with the sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll in the 1970s. Poignant, sensual, and deeply felt, An Italian Wife is a sweeping and evocative portrait of a family bound by love and heartbreak."