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THE HAPPIEST TODDLER ON THE BLOCK
A Bantam Book

PUBLISHING HISTORY
Bantam hardcover edition published March 2004
Bantam revised hardcover and trade paperback editions /
September 2008

Published by Bantam Dell
A Division of Random House, Inc.
New York, New York

Illustration from Seven Clocked Minutes of Nursery School Behavior at Different Ages YOUR TWO-YEAR-OLD by Louise Bates Ames, Ph.D., and Frances L. Ilg, copyright © 1976 by The Gesell Institute of Child Development, Frances L. Ilg and Louise Bates Ames. Used by permission of Dell Publishing, a division of Random House, Inc.

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Copyright © 2004, 2008 by The Happiest Baby, Inc.

Illustrations copyright © 2008 by Margeaux Lucas

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Karp, Harvey.
The happiest toddler on the block : how to eliminate tantrums and raise a patient, respectful, and cooperative one- to four-year-old / Harvey Karp ; with Paula Spencer. — Rev. ed.
p. cm.
1. Toddlers. 2. Child rearing. 3. Toddlers—Development.
I. Spencer, Paula. II. Title.

HQ774.5.K37 2008
649’.122—dc22
2008015230

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