From America's #1 family magazine, a guide to your five- and six-year-old's emotional and cognitive milestones.

Sending your child off to a full day of school means enormous and exciting changes for you and your kindergartner. In Your Five- and Six-Year-Old, the expert editors of Parents magazine prepare you for your child's staggering intellectual leaps and deepening social skills over these transformative years.

Each chapter focuses on a unique developmental milestone-from separating from mom to learning to read and write to understanding values such as...

Peter, the lad from Philadelphia, joins forces with Jack Pumpkinhead to rescue Ozma and the Emerald City from conquest by Mogodore, the infamous Red Baron of Baffleburg. Even with the help of Belfaygor of Bourne, whose beard grows at an alarming rate, and the consistently charming and rhyming Iffin--which, as everyone knows, is a griffin who's lost his grrrr--their efforts seem in vain.

The horrendous Scare City, an enchanted pirate sack that can scoop up entire armies, a...