Twin Tales: The Magic and Mystery of Multiple Births (Little Brown, April 2001), focuses on explaining the fascination with twins specifically for a young audience and is a perfect book for parents to share with their twins at the age 12-and-under reading level.
The 48-page book covers many various aspects of twins: bonding, conception to birth, identical twins, fraternal twins, supertwins, nature vs. nurture and amazing twins, while also offering numerous profiles throughout the book of famous twins. Author Donna Jackson (the daughter of a twin), spent several years interviewing twin experts and famous multiples and has crafted a book which should appeal to all young twins and their families.
One interesting essay updates the "Twin Rescuing Hug" twins, Brielle and Kyrie Jackson, who were born prematurely on October 17, 1995. After Brielle's condition became critical shortly after their birth, nurses tried the double-bedding technique in which her twin sister, Kyrie, was placed in the same incubator. The results were dramatic as Brielle quickly gained strength and the twins were discharged from the hospital about a month later. You may have seen the Internet version of this story distributed to you via email (with a famous picture of Kyrie hugging her sister in the hospital incubator). Jackson's book offers an update on the twins with more recent photos.
Buy Twin Tales at Amazon.Com, for just $11.53.
(please note we do not sell this book directly here at Twinstuff)
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