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One evening, my friend’s 4 year old daughter shared with her mother a terrible story. Innocently talking and miming her usual day at the child minder’s, she was horrified to hear that the child minder’s son had been sexually abusing her little girl!

Not wanting to alarm the girl, she asked her to repeat the story. The little girl described and showed how each day, the boy would bring her to his room to “play” while his mother napped.

Holding back her tears, she rang up her husband and told him everything. Both working parents were furious and confronted the child minder who denied everything. They put their daughter in the care of a neighbour while they agonized over what to do next.

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Tags: non-fiction, psychology by KittyCat
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I hardly read self-help books because I’m a self-motivated person (seriously!). Stephen Covey’s “7 Highly Effective Habits for Highly Effective People” was my last motivational book, simply because it was a “required reading” for a Management course I took.

Unlike other motivational books, “Awake at the Wheel” begins with the fable of Og, the caveman who invented the wheel. Og is portrayed as an average Joe or Jamal or Jee Yee with a job, a wife, a house (or a cave) and a son. One day, he stumbled upon his Big Idea and he:

“…found it hard to sleep at night. Hard to sleep and hard to hunt and hard to do just about anything but think about his Big Idea.

He thought, of course, about telling someone - his best friend, Ugh, perhaps, or Aargh, his beloved wife - but he just couldn’t bring himself to do it, not quite sure they would actually understand.”

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Tags: humour, motivational, non-fiction by KittyCat
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The Great Book of Transport: The Beginner’s Guide to Land, Air and Sea transportation
by Lynne Gibbs
Publisher: Alligator
(ISBN: 1-84239-944-6)

When my toddler’s included trucks as well as trains, I knew I needed a book to help me with the vocabulary for this traditionally male territory. Not knowing if I may need to know about other types of transport, I was glad I found this bumper book!

Recommended for ages 9-12, this hardcover 150 page reference contains more than 400 full colour photographs of the “biggest, boldest and most stunning models” of all time (as at 2006, that is).

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Tags: elementary, non-fiction, preschool, primary, toddlers by KittyCat
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Insight Guides - China (with the Discovery Channel)
(ISBN: 978-981-4137-78-2)

Instead of Lonely Planet, we got this travel guide for China as we wanted “great pictures, which vividly convey a sense of everyday life”. Heck, we are going to live in this country, best to see what everyday life is like, right?

A partnership with the Discovery Channel, this guide promises to be:

everything you’ll ever need in a guidebook. It is an inspiring background read, an invaluable on-the-spot companion and a superb souvenir of your visit.

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Tags: non-fiction, travel by KittyCat
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