Harriet Brown

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1) Body of truth: how science, history, and culture drive our obsession with weight--and what we can do about it

Author

Brown, Harriet

Pub. Date

2015.

Physical Description

xxvii, 273 pages ; 22 cm

Language

English

Description

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"Over the last 25 years, our longing for thinness has morphed into a relentless cultural obsession with weight and body image. You can't be a woman or girl (or, increasingly, a man or boy) in America today and not grapple with the size and shape of your body, your daughter's body, other women's bodies. Even the most confident people have to find a way through a daily gauntlet of voices and images talking, admonishing, warning us about what size we...

2) A smart girl's guide babysitting: the care and keeping of kids

Author

Brown, Harriet

Series

Babysitter's handbook

Pub. Date

[2014]

Physical Description

78 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Language

English

Description

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Offers practical advice for babysitters, covering such basic topics as feeding, crying, keeping children amused, first aid, and bedtime. "Girls can learn how to be the best babysitter on the block! Inside this guide are professional tips and tricks, quizzes, secrets from real sitters, and safety how-to information. She'll learn how to care for kids and become a wiz at changing a baby's diaper properly, calming a crying child when her parents leave,...

3) The good-bye window: a year in the life of a day-care center

Author

Brown, Harriet

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

Description

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Have you ever wondered what really goes on at your child's day-care center after you say good-bye? Harriet Brown did. To satisfy her curiosity, she spent an entire year observing Red Caboose, a center in Madison, Wisconsin. This engaging and thought-provoking book is the story of that year.
In her beautifully written personal account, journalist and mother Brown takes us behind the scenes at a day-care center that works. At Red Caboose, one

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4) Brave girl eating: a family's struggle with anorexia

Author

Brown, Harriet

Language

English

5) The babysitter's handbook: the care and keeping of kids

Author

Brown, Harriet

Language

English

Description

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Teaches babysitters how to calm kids, feed finicky eaters, and please parents, in a book that offers sitter secrets, including the value of client information cards.

6) Welcome to Kit's world, 1934: growing up during America's Great Depression

Author

Brown, Harriet

Series

American girls collection

Pub. Date

[2002]

Physical Description

60 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 27 x 31 cm

Language

English

Description

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Through photographs, illustrations, and both factual and fictionalized anecdotes, shows what life was like in the United States during the Depression.

7) Kit's railway adventure

Author

Brown, Harriet

Series

American girls collection

Pub. Date

[2002]

Physical Description

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 21 x 21 cm

Language

English

Description

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Through photographs, illustrations, and both factual and fictionalized anecdotes, travels from Cincinnati to Glacier Park, Montana in 1934.

8) Madison walks

Author

Brown, Harriet

Pub. Date

[2003]

Physical Description

x, 145 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm

Language

English

9) Shadow daughter: a memoir of estrangement

Author

Brown, Harriet

Pub. Date

2018.

Physical Description

xxv, 259 pages ; 22 cm

Language

English

Description

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"A riveting, provocative, and ultimately hopeful exploration of mother-daughter estrangement, woven with research and anecdotes, from an award-winning journalist"--