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What Children’s Stories Say About Parenting

What Children’s Stories Say About Parenting

Last updated on: January 24, 2014 at 6:08 pm by Amy Henry

What Children’s Stories Say About Parenting 2014-01-24T18:08:25-05:00 Amy Henry

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Tired of parenting books that make you feel like a failure? Story Mama, gleans parenting advice from an unlikely, but delightful place: classic children’s literature.

Beloved stories like Where the Wild Things Are, The Velveteen Rabbit, and Make Way for Ducklings serve as jumping off points for writer and mom of six, Amy Henry, to inspire you on your motherly journey. Written in short (read: potty-break-sized) vignettes, Story Mama offers both practical suggestions (ie. how to get your kids to eat their broccoli without turning into the Incredible Hulkess) and inspiration for the parenting journey (The Little Engine That Could’s ‘I think I can, I think I can…’). Always honest, but never preachy, Story Mama is a book that illustrates the beauty of mothering, cataloguing its hilarious missteps, but never missing a chance to bask in the joy of the journey.

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Alexander and the Terrible

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Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat

Good Dog

Green Eggs and Ham

Harold and the Purple Crayon

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Horton Hatches an Egg

Humpty Dumpty

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Madeline

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Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

Millions of Cats

Miss Nelson is Missing

The Emperor's New Clothes

The Giving Tree

The Little Engine That Could

The Little House

The Magic Fish

The Mitten

The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

The Runaway Bunny

The Story of Ferdinand

The Three Bears

The Three Little Pigs

The Ugly Duckling

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Tootle

Velveteen Rabbit

Very Bad Day

We're Going on a Bear Hunt

Where the Wild Things Are

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