📚 Child Care

Books with child care on their catalogue record, first published between 1651 and 2017, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject child care in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 7,605 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The care and feeding of children	Holt, L. Emmett	1894	72
	Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children	Pye Henry Chavasse	1878	28
	Aunt Jane's Nieces on the Ranch	L. Frank Baum	1913	28
	Looking After Children	Dept.of Health	1991	28
	What to expect the first year	Heidi Murkoff	1989	23
	Common sense book of baby and child care	Benjamin Spock	1946	19
	Dr. Spock's baby and child care	Benjamin Spock	1985	15
	Health, safety, and nutrition for the young child	Lynn R. Marotz	1985	15
	Perspectives on play	Avril Brock	2008	15
	Nutrition, health, and safety for young children	Joanne Sorte	2010	14
	Early childhood studies	Rod Parker-Rees	2004	10
	A directory for midwives	Nicholas Culpeper	1651	9
	The teenage brain	Frances E. Jensen	2013	9
	Infancy	Hugh Downman	1774	8
	How to raise children at home in your spare time	Marvin J. Gersh	1966	8
	Infants, toddlers, and caregivers	Janet Gonzalez-Mena	1989	8
	A dictionary of first names	Patrick Hanks	1990	8
	Child development	Laura E. Levine	2011	8
	Advice to a mother on the management of her children and on the treatment on the moment of some of their more pressing illnesses and accidents	Pye Henry Chavasse	1871	7
	Your child is a person	Stella Chess	1965	7
	Lorsque l'enfant paraît	Françoise Dolto	1977	7
	Dream babies	Christina Hardyment	1983	7
	Child growth and development	Elizabeth Bergner Hurlock	1949	5
	Foundations of Child and Youth Care	Carol Stuart	2009	5
	All about Child Care and Early Education	Marilyn Segal	2011	5
	Child Development	Jean A. Mercer	2012	5
	Midwife's Tale	Billie Hunter	2013	5
	Men in the Lives of Young Children	Deborah Jones	2013	5
	Child Development	Martin J. Packer	2017	5
	Patterns of child rearing	Robert R. Sears	1957	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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