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A Doctor Talks to 5 to 8 Year Olds
by Meilach, Dona Z. & Elias Mandel, MD
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Budlong Press Company, 1969. 12mo size staple bound yellow cardstock softcover; 89 pages with larger type text and illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and some black and white drawings. From publisher's note: "(This book) is a direct, tactful approach to the events of reproduction, birth and growth among humans and animals, including birds and fish. Parents who read the book to their children will be delighted with the simple vocabulary that makes concepts easy for youngsters to grasp. Beginning readers will be able to understand most of the words on a first reading. The range of tasteful, vivid illustrations including drawings, appealing photos of animals and children and reproductions of famous works of art. All combine beautifully to tell the absorbing story of the miracle of birth; birth coupled with the importance of affection and devotion by parents for their babies... The concepts will normally satisfy the inquisitiveness of a 5 to 8 year old child." There is an emphasis throughout on a parents love for their child. This rare volume was not commercially available and would have been distributed by clinicians. Contents include: The Story of You Where Do Eggs Come From? What Makes An Egg Begin to Grow? How Eggs and Sperm Meet The Eggs Begin to Grow The Baby Is Born Baby's First Week The First Year Growing Up There is a chip missing from top left front cover, an inked doodle on front cover, a crease to top right corner of front cover and a crease on back cover. There are water stains in bottom margin of front and back cover. There are no waterstains or other marks to pages. The covers have some light soil and there is a tiny stain to the top margin of back cover; the spine appears to be sunned. . Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Charity Bookstall
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005252
- Title
- A Doctor Talks to 5 to 8 Year Olds
- Author
- Meilach, Dona Z. & Elias Mandel, MD
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Budlong Press Company
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1969
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Parenting; Sociology;
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Glossary
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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