The number of books available on Maternal and Child Health Care is scarce. Even those are available often do not give details as a whole. Maternal and Child Health Care in the first book, which describe both the maternal and child health in details. The book has been written lucidly but in simple language. The book appears valuable not only to the newly pregnant and mothers who have given birth to children, it may also prove its worth to the senior medical students and the nurses. The book describes all the details on maternity, highlighting the facts that a mother may suffer from the physiological changes and the problems and inconveniences they do usually suffer from. Dr. Suraiya Hossain, a specialist physician of Dhaka, Bangladesh, took every pain to describe all those problems and inconveniences and has given the details on their prevention and cure. So it is with the child health and the author has given a vivid description in lucid language on the development of the foetus and its birth. The book also elaborately illustrates the usual problem a new born child may face, with their cure and remedy. The book described each and every step on child health care and has also included the detailed immunisation programme