Min and Max

Hello, everybody!

I've trouble to make a "simple"(?) query...

The following table is an example:

table: children
id_father | child_name | child_age
----------+------------+------------       1 | John       | 2       1 | Joe        | 3       1 | Mary       | 4       1
|Cristine   | 4       2 | Paul       | 1       2 | Stephany   | 2       2 | Raul       | 5
 

How can I get the rows of the children name and its "father" such that
they have the min child_ages? I expect the following rows as result:

id_father | child_name | child_age
----------+------------+------------       1 | John       | 2       2 | Paul       | 1

The same for the max child_ages...

id_father | child_name | child_age
----------+------------+------------       1 | Mary       | 4       1 | Cristine   | 4       2 | Raul       | 5

I tried to use min() and max() with group by but I could not get the
expected results:

-- the following does not return the child_name...
select id_father, min(child_age) from children group by id_father;
select id_father, max(child_age) from children group by id_father;


Any suggestions?

Thanks In Advance,
Sergio Oshiro