Working Parents: Resource List

Books for Children

Ages 4 to 8

• A Chair For My Mother; by Vera Williams; William Morrow, 1993
• A.J.'S Mom Gets a New Job: Adjusting to a Two-Career Family; by Lawrence Balter, Roz Schanzer (illustrator); Barron's, 1990
• Mama's Coming Home; by Kate Banks; Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003
• The Berenstain Bears and Mama's New Job; by Stan Berenstain; Econo Clad Books, 1999
• When Mama Gets Home; by Marisabina Russo; Greenwillow, 1998

Ages 7 to 10

• If You Were A Writer; by Joan Lowery Nixon; Econo-Clad Books, 1999
• Mama's Birthday Surprise; by Elizabeth Spurr, Felipe Davalos (illustrator); Hyperion Books for Children, 1996
• My Mom's A Vet; by Henry Horenstein; Demco Media, 1996
• My Working Mom; by Peter Glassman, Tedd Arnold (illustrator); Morrow Junior Books, 1994
• Ramona and Her Mother; by Beverly Cleary; Econo-Clad Books, 1999

Young Adult

• Misty and Me; by Barbara Girion; Econo Clad Books, 1999

Books for Adults

• Food Fights and Bedtime Battles: A Working Parents Guide to Negotiating Dialy Power Struggles; Berkeley Publ Group, 2001
• Parent's Guide to Business Travel: Practical Advice and Wisdom for When You Have to Be Away; by Charlie Hudson; Capital Books, 2003
• Positive Discipline for Working Parents: Raising Responsible, Respectful and Resourceful Children When You Work Outside the Home; by Jane Nelsen; Rima Publishing, 2003
• The Working Mother Book of Time: How to Take It, Make It, Save It, and Savor It; by Working Mother Magazine; St. Martin's Griffin, 2000
• What Happy Working Mothers Know: How New Findings in Positive Psychology Can Lead to a Healthy and Happy Work/Life Balance; by Cathy Greenberg; Wiley, 2009
• Working Fathers: New Strategies for Balancing Work and Family; by James A. Levine and Todd L. Pittinsky; Harvest Books, 1998