Pay Attention to the Children:
Lessons to Parents and Teachers from Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Here’s my article’s link.

You can buy my books and Sylvia Ashton-Warner’s (when I have them) from my Bookstore.

NOTE: I have given the first United States publication date for Sylvia’s books in this listing. The English publication date is listed in brackets { }, and New Zealand date in square brackets [ ].

Ashton-Warner, Sylvia

Bell Call, NY, Simon and Schuster, 1964 {1971}

Greenstone, NY, Simon and Schuster, 1966 {1967}.

I Passed This Way, NY, Knopf, 1979 {1979} [1979].

Incense to Idols, NY, Simon and Schuster, 1960 {1960}.

Myself, NY Simon and Schuster, 1967 {1969}.

O Children of the World…, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, The First Person Press, 1974.

Spearpoint, NY, Knopf, 1972.

Spinster, NY, Simon and Schuster, 1959 {1958} [distributed by Heinemann].

Stories from the River, Auckland, New Zealand: Hodder and Stoughton, [1986].

Teacher, NY, Simon and Schuster, 1963.

Three, NY, Knopf, 1970.

Barrington and Beaglehole. Maori Schools in a Changing Society, Wellington, New Zealand Center for Educational Research, 1974.

Bateson, Mary Catherine. Composing a Life, NY, Penguin, 1989.

Belenky, Mary F., Blythe McVicker Clinchy, Nancy Rule Goldberger, Jill Mattuck Tarule. Women’s Ways of Knowing, NY, Basic Books, 1986.

Berry, Patricia. Echo’s Subtle Body, NY, Spring Publications, 1982.

Brown, Cynthia. Literacy in 30 Hours, Appendix to Shor, Ira, Freire for the Classroom: A Sourcebook for Liberatory Teaching, Portsmouth, NH, Heinemann, 1987.

Clemens, Sydney Gurewitz. The Sun’s Not Broken, A Cloud’s Just in the Way: On Child-Centered Teaching, Gryphon House, Inc., 1984

Coles, Robert. Call of Stories: Teaching & Moral Imagination, NY, Houghton Mifflin, 1989

Correas de Zapata, Celia, ed. Short Stories by Latin American Women: The Magic and the Real, Arte Publico Press, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-2090, 1990.

Dewey, John. Democracy and Education, NY, Macmillan, 1917.

Donmoyer, Robert. The Politics of Play: Ideological & Organizational Constraints on the Inclusion of Play Experiences in the School Curriculum, Journal of Research & Development in Education, Volume 14, Number 3, 1981.

Dreikurs, Rudolf and V. Soltz. Children: The Challenge, NY, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1964.

Edwards, Carolyn, Lella Gandini and George Forman. The Hundred Languages of Children, Norwood, NJ, Ablex, 1993. [1998. Ablex is now in Greenwich, CT. Get the second ed.]

Egan, Kieran. Teaching as Story Telling, University of Chicago Press, 1986.

Elkind, David. The Hurried Child. Reading, MA, Addison Wesley, 1981.

Fillmer, H. Thompson and Bill Cole Cliett. Nurturing Your Child’s Literacy, Gainesville, FL, Maupin House, 1992.

Gilbert, Sandra and Susan Gubar. Sexual Linguistics: Gender, Language, Sexuality, in New Literary History, Vol 16, Spring 1985.

Godden, Rumer. A Candle for St. Jude, London, Macmillan, 1973.

Goodman, Paul. Compulsory Miseducation, NY, Vintage, 1964.

Grace, Patricia. Electric City, Auckland, NZ, Penguin, 1989.

Greenberg, Polly. The Devil Has Slippery Shoes: A Biased Biography of the Mississippi Child Development Group, Youth Policy Group, P.O. B. 40132, Wash., DC 20016, 1990.

Hart, J. Learning to Read With Key-Words in Teaching K-8 August- September, 1987.

Herndon, James. The Way It Spozed to Be. NY, Bantam, 1968.

Hillman, James. Healing Fiction, Barrytown, NY, Stanton Hill, 1983.

Hinewirangi. Kanohi ki te kanohi [Face to Face], Wellington, NZ, Moana Press, 1990.

Holt, John. How Children Fail, NY, Pitman, 1964.

Hood, Lynley. Sylvia! The Biography of Sylvia Ashton-Warner, NZ, Viking Penguin, 1988.

Hood, Lynley. Who is Sylvia? The Diary of a Biography, Dunedin, NZ, John McIndoe, 1990.

Houston, Jean. The Possible Human: A Course in Extending Your Physical, Mental, and Creative Abilities, Los Angeles, CA, Jeremy P. Tarcher (distributed by Houghton Mifflin Co.), 1982.

Houston, Jean. The Search for the Beloved, Los Angeles, CA, Jeremy P. Tarcher (distributed by St. Martin’s Press), 1987.

John-Steiner, Vera. Notebooks of the Mind, University of New Mexico Press, 1985.

Johnson, Katie. Doing Words: Using the Creative Power of Children’s Personal Images to Teach Reading and Writing, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1987.

Jones, Elizabeth & Gretchen Reynolds. The Play’s the Thing, NY, Teachers College Press, 1992.

Jong, Erika. Fear of Flying, NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973.

Katz, Lilian and Bernard Cesarone, eds. Reflections on the Reggio EmiliaApproach,Urbana, IL, ERIC, 1994.

Kazantzakis, Nikos. Zorba the Greek, NY, Simon and Schuster, 1952.

Kohl, Herbert. The Open Classroom: A Practical Guide to a New Way of Teaching, NY Review Books (distributed by Vintage), 1969.

Kohl, Herbert. 36 Children, NY, Signet, 1967.

Kohn, Alfie. No Contest: The Case Against Competition, Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co. 1992.

Kohn, Alfie. Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A’s, Praise, and Other Bribes, Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992.

Kohn, Alfie. “Caring Kids,” in Phi Delta Kappan, March, 1991.

Kohn, Alfie. “Choices for Children,” in Phi Delta Kappan, September, 1993.

Kozol, Jonathan. Death at an Early Age, NY, Bantam, 1968.

Kozol, Jonathan. Free Schools, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1972.

Kozol, Jonathan. On Being a Teacher, NY, Continuum, 1981.

Lewis, Hilda P. Child Art: The Beginnings of Self-Affirmation, P.O. Box 7084, Berkeley, CA 94717, Diablo Press, 1966.

Llosa, Mario Vargas. “Is Fiction the Art of Lying?” New York Times Book Review,
October 7, 1984.

Marshall, Sybil. Adventures in Creative Education, Oxford, England, Pergamon Press, 1968.

Marshall, Sybil. An Experiment in Education, Cambridge University Press, 1968.

Martin, Jane Roland. The Schoolhome: Rethinking Schools for Changing Families, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1992.

Metge, Joan. The Maoris of New Zealand: Rautahi, Routledge and KeganPaul, 1946.

Metge, Joan and Patricia Kinloch. Talking Past Each Other!  Problems of Cross-Cultural Communication, New Zealand, Victoria University Press, 1984.

Moore, H. “A Tribute” in Herbert Read: A Memorial Symposium, R. Skelton, ed. London, Methuen, 1979.

Morrison, Toni. “The Site of Memory,” in Zinsser, William, ed. Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1987.

Neill, A.S. Summerhill, NY, Hart, 1960.

Nicholls, John. Education as Adventure, NY, Teachers College Press, 1993.

O’Donnell , Mabel and Rona Munro. The Janet and John Whole Word Course (A series of basal readers), London, James Nisbet, 1949.

Paley, Vivian Gussin. The Boy Who Would Be a Helicopter, Harvard University Press, 1990.

Paley, Vivian Gussin. Wally’s Stories, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1981.

Paley, Vivian Gussin. You Can’t Say You Can’t Play, Harvard University Press, 1992.

Pere, Rangimarie. AKO: Concepts & Learning in the Maori Tradition, Hamilton, NZ, Department of Sociology, University of Waikato, 1982.

Plowden, Lady Bridget, chair, Central Advisory Council for Education. Children and their Primary Schools, London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1967.

Pogrebin, Lettie Cottin. Growing Up Free: Raising Your Child in the ’80s, NY, Bantam, 1981.

Raths, Louis, Selma Wassermann, Arthur Jonas and Arnold Rothstein. Teaching for Thinking: Theory, Strategies & Activities for the Classroom, NY, Teachers College Press, 1986.

Read, Herbert. Education for Peace, NY, Scribners, 1949.

Read, Herbert. Education Through Art, (1943), NY, Pantheon Books, (reprint) 1958.

Read, Herbert. The Meaning of Art, London, Faber and Faber, 1931.

Reggio Emilia [City of]. I Cento Linguaggi dei Bambini: (The Hundred Languages of Children), catalog of museum exhibit, c.1986. [get 2nd edition; it’s much better!  SGC 1998]

Rich, Adrienne. “I Dream I’m the Death of Orpheus” in Poems, Selected and New,1950-1974, NY, W.W. Norton, 1975.

Richardson, Elwyn S. In The Early World, NY, Pantheon, 1964.

Rotzel, Grace. The School in Rose Valley, NY, Ballantine, 1972.

Schaef, Anne Wilson. When Society Becomes an Addict, NY, Harper and Row, 1987.

Sendak, Maurice. Where The Wild Things Are, NY, Harper and Row, 1963.

Smith, Sidonie. A Poetics of Women’s Autobiography: Marginality and the Fictions of Self-Representation, Indiana University Press, 1987.

Spock, Benjamin. Baby and Child Care, NY, Pocket Cardinal (1967 version), 1967.

Steptoe, John. Daddy Is a Monster Sometimes, NY, Harper Trophy, 1980.

Taylor, Judy, ed. ‘So I Shall Tell You a Story‘…Encounters with Beatrix Potter, NY, Penguin, 1993.

Veatch, Jeannette et al. Key Words to Reading: The Language Experience Approach Begins (Second Edition), Columbus, OH, Charles E. Merrill, 1979.

Veatch, Jeannette “Whole Language as I See It,” in Goodman, et al. The Whole Language Catalog, Santa Rosa, CA, American School Publishers, 1991.

Vygotsky, Lev. Thought and Language, ed. G. Vakar, trans. E. Hanfmann. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1962.

Walker, Alice. Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning, NY Dial Press, 1979.

Wassermann, Selma. Serious Players in the Primary Classroom, NY, Teachers College Press, 1990

Wells, Rosemary. Noisy Nora, NY, Dial Pied Piper, 1973.

Witherell, Carol and Nel Noddings. Stories Lives Tell: Narrative and Dialogue in Education, NY, Teachers College Press, 1991.

Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own, NY, Harcourt, Brace and World, 1929.

Woolf, Virginia. Three Guineas, NY, Harcourt, Brace and World, 1938.

A Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Curriculum: Playing the Dream

Click to go to the Article A Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Curriculum: Playing the Dream 

[This is 1987 bibliography, not updated]

Juvenile Picture Books

(Note: All these books are too old for 4-year-olds. Use the pictures and tell the story. Don’t emphasize the murder, but rather focus upon the work on behalf of the community. (We know other stuff about Lincoln and Kennedy than that they were assassinated.) Leave the books around for children to look at.)

Davidson, M. (1986). I Have a Dream. New York: Scholastic.
Tells King’s story in a Black history context. Good photos.

de Kay, J. T. (1969). Meet Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Random House.
Good photos and a few drawings.

Hunter, N. (1985). Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Bookwright Press.

Lowery, L. (1987). Martin Luther King Day. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda.
Too much text for one sitting;  could be read a couple of pages at a sitting. Clear language and concepts, more upbeat and constructive than many of the others.

McKissack, P.C. (1986). Our Martin Luther King Book. Elgin, IL: The Child’s Distributed by Children’s Press, 1224 W. Van Buren St., Chicago, IL 60607.
I’d read this one in two or three sittings. It takes a kindergarten class through the i ideas of civil rights and prejudice, includes the music and words to “We Shall Overcome,” has beautiful llustrations—some photos but mostly drawings—and suggests that children make their own book about Dr. King.   This  book  uses the King holiday to help children understand many things, including the ways  we celebrate.  My favorite. Patterson, L. (1977).

Medearis, Angela Shelf, & Anna Rich (Illustrator). Dare to Dream: Coretta Scott King and the Civil Rights Movement  Puffin Reprint edition (January 1999).
As usual, too many words for preschool children. Use the pictures and retell more simply.

Paulsen, G., & Theis, D. (1976). Martin Luther King, The man who climbed the mountain.  Milwaukee, WI: Rain-tree.
More dense than the others; more information on the influence of Gandhi on King. Good photos

Thompson, M. (1983). Martin Luther King, Jr.: A story for children. Family Development  Association, Inc., P.O. Box 485, New York, NY 10009.
Very little text, strong drawings.

Wilson, B. P. lIlus. F. Sowell. (1971). Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Putnam.
Beautifully illustrated with pencil drawings. Simply told … but still too long for 3s and 4s.

Books For Adults

Bennett, L. (1968). What Manner of Man. New York: Pocket Books.

Garrow, D.J. (1986). Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern  Christian Leadership Conference. New York: Morrow. Pulitzer Prize biography.

King, C. S. (1969). My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.

Lewis, D. L. (1979). King, a Biography. Chicago: University of Illinois Press.

Oates, S.B. (1982). Let the Trumpet Sound: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Harper & Row.
A gifted historian’s notable book.

Schulke, F., & McPhee, P.O. (1986). King Remembered. New York: Norton. Washington, J. M. (Ed.) (1986). Testament of hope: The essential writings of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Harper & Row.
Excerpts of the main writings and speeches. Great resource book.

Resources for Adults on Building Self-Esteem in Children

Bank Street College of Education. (1985). Raising a Confident Child. New York: Pantheon.

Briggs, D. C. (1970). Your Child’s Self-esteem. New York: Doubleday.
The best book about why 2-year-olds are like that.

Clemens, S. G. (1984). The Sun’s Not Broken, A Cloud’s Just in the Way: On Child-centered Teaching. Mt. Rainier,MD: Gryphon House.

Faber, A., & Mazush, E. (1982). How to talk so kids will talk and listen so kids will talk. New York: Avon.

Ginott, H. G. (1975). Teacher and child. New York: Avon.

Gonzalez-Mena, I., & Eyer, J. (1980). Infancy and caregiving. Palo Alto, CA:Mayfield.
Self-esteem in babies.

Jersild, A. T. (1955). When teachers face themselves. New York: Teachers College Press,
Columbia University.
To support children we must develop ourselves.

McGinnis, J. B., & McGinnis, K. (1981). Parenting for peace and justice.
Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.

Pogrebin, L. C. (1980). Growing up free: Raising your child in the 80’s. New York:  Bantam.

Records, Cassettes, and Books About the Civil Rights Movement

Highlander Research and Education Center, Route 3, Box 370, New Market, TN 37820.
Write for a catalog. Includes Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Songs of the freedom movement and We Shall Overcome: Songs of the Freedom Movement

Martin Luther King Center for Non-Violent Social Change, 449 Auburn St., N. E., Atlanta, GA 30312. Write for a listing of their books, cassettes, and records.

And of Course You Will Want Dr. King’s Own Books

Stride toward freedom: The Montgomery story. (1958)  New York: Harper.
Strength to love. (1963). New York: Harper & Row.
Why we can’t wait. (1964). New York: Harper & Row.
Trumpet of conscience. (1968). New York: Harper & Row
Washington, I. M. (Ed.). (1986) Testament of hope: The essential writings of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Harper & Row

© 1988 NAEYC.  Copyright transferred 1999 to Sydney Clemens. Permission to reprint is required only if this material is to be reprinted in another form such as a book, newsletter, or journal.

Children with Incarcerated Parents

Social Work Policy Institute

 

1. Books for Adult Caregivers of Children with Incarcerated Parents
(I’ve marked ones I especially like with this symbol: ***)

Bernstein, Nell. All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated. I used this book as the text in my 2005 class at New College of California. It is a comprehensive description of the problem, with many stories to make the human face evident.

Bloom, B. And Steinhart, D., 1993 Why Punish the Children? A Reappraisal of the Children of Incarcerated Mothers in America

Boudouris, James. (1996). Parents in Prison: Addressing the Needs of Families  Lanham, MD: American Correctional Association. ISBN: 1569910502

Child Welfare League of America has several books listed on their webpage: www.cwla.org

Doucette-Dudman, D. 1996. Raising our Children’s Children Minneapolis, MN, Fairview Press. ISBN: 1577490266

deToledo, S. & Brown, D.E. 1995 Grandparents as Parents.  ISBN: 1572300205 Guilford Press, 72 Spring St. NY 10012.

Edenfield, A. (2002). Family Arrested: How to Survive the Incarceration of a Loved One. Albuquerque, NM: Americana Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 1589430603

Fox, S.S. Good Grief, Helping Groups of Children When a Friend Dies ISBN 0-9609466-1-6 (While not a book about jailed parents, the information about how young children process loss in this out-of-print book is very valuable.)

LeShan, Eda (1993) Grandparenting in a Changing World   NY: Newmarket Press. ISBN: 155704175X

Muse, Daphne, “Parenting From Prison,” in Mothering, Fall 1994.

***San Francisco Partnership for Incarcerated Parents, Children of Incarcerated Parents: A Bill of Rights.  (2003) Available online.

Seymour, C. & Hairston, C.F. (Editors) (2000). Children With Parents in Prison: Child Welfare Policy, Program, and Practice Issues New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Pub. ISBN: 076580719X

Yaffe, R. M., Hoade, L.F. & Moody, B.S. (2000). When A Parent Goes To Jail : A Comprehensive Guide for Counseling Children of Incarcerated Parents ISBN:1877810088

2. Books for Children with Incarcerated Parents

Black, Frank M. A Visit with Daddy. 1-877-609-KIDS or
www.inside-outpublishing.com  ALSO A Visit with Mommy & There are Some Real Special Kids in our Class. Written by an ex-con for his own children.

Crane, J. & Short, B., Two in every Hundred. A workbook for school-aged children

Reconciliation. Two in Every Hundred: a special workbook for children with a parent in prison. Order from:

Reconciliation,
702 51st Avenue North
Nashville, TN 37209
(615) 292 6371.

Roznowski, F. Time to Go illustrated by Tak Toyoshima, order a copy by sending $7 (includes postage) to:
Fran Roznowski
11 Cottage St.
Chelsea, MA. 02150

Simon, Norma, “All Kinds of Families.” ISBN: 0807502820

Williams, Vera B. (2001). “Amber was Brave, Essie was Smart.” NY: Greenwillow. ISBN:006029461-2 Remarkable book of poems and drawings about two sisters who react differently to having a dad in prison.  For children ages 6-12.

***Woodson, J. & Ransome, J. (2002). Visiting Day. Scholastic. ISBN: 0590400053

***Woodson, J. (2002). Our Gracie Aunt. Hyperion. ISBN: 078680620-6

NOTE: Some of these books I’ve only heard about and cannot recommend for or against. This bibliography is meant to be a starting place. SGC

Thinking About Stories

Coles, Robert. Call of Stories: Teaching & Moral Imagination, NY, Houghton Mifflin, 1989

Egan, Kieran. Teaching as Story Telling, University of Chicago Press, 1986.

Hillman, James. Healing Fiction, Barrytown, NY, Stanton Hill, 1983.

Llosa, Mario Vargas. “Is Fiction the Art of Lying?” The New York Times Book Review, October 7, 1984.

Morrison, Toni. “The Site of Memory,” in Zinsser, W., ed., Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1987.

Paley, Vivian Gussin. The Boy Who Would Be a Helicopter, Harvard Univ. Press, 1990.

Paley, Vivian Gussin. Wally’s Stories, Harvard Univ. Press, 1981.

Pere, Rangimarie. AKO: Concepts and Learning in the Maori Tradition, Hamilton, NZ, Department of Sociology, University of Waikato, 1982.

Gianni Rodari. The Grammar of Fantasy: An Introduction to the Art of InventingStories Teachers & Writers Collaborative, 5 Union Sq., NY NY 10003-3306, 1996.

Taylor, Judy, ed. ‘So I Shall Tell You a Story’…Encounters with Beatrix Potter, NY, Penguin,1993.

Witherell, Carol and Nel Noddings. Stories Lives Tell: Narrative and Dialogue in Education, NY, Teachers College Press, 1991.

Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own, NY, Harcourt, Brace and World, 1929.

Children and Creativity

Ashton-Warner, Sylvia. Teacher, NY, Simon and Schuster, 1963.

Clemens, Sydney Gurewitz. “Art in the Classroom: Making every Day Special”Young Children, January 1990

Gallas, Karen. The Languages of Learning, Teachers College Press, 1994

Gross, Toni and Clemens, Sydney Gurewitz.  “Painting a Tragedy: 
Young Children Process the Events of September 11″  Young Children, May 2002

Jones, Elizabeth & Gretchen Reynolds. The Play’s the Thing, NY, Teachers Coll. Press, 1992.

Katz, Lilian and Bernard Cesarone, eds. Reflections on the Reggio Emilia Approach,Urbana, IL, ERIC, 1994.

Lewis, Hilda P. Child Art: The Beginnings of Self-Affirmation,
P.O. Box 7084, Berkeley, CA 94717, Diablo Press, 1966.

Marshall, Sybil. Adventures in Creative Education,
Oxford, England, Pergamon Press, 1968.

Marshall, Sybil. An Experiment in Education,
Cambridge University Press, 1968.

Plowden, Lady Bridget, chair, Central Advisory Council for Education.
Children and their Primary Schools, London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1967.

Read, Herbert. Education Through Art, (1943), NY, Pantheon Books, (reprint) 1958.

Reggio Emilia [City of]. I Cento Linguaggi dei Bambini: The Hundred Languages of Children,
catalog of museum exhibit, c.1986. [get 2nd edition; it’s much better! SGC 1998]

Richardson, Elwyn S. In The Early World, NY, Pantheon, 1964.

Rotzel, Grace. The School in Rose Valley, NY, Ballantine, 1972.

Wassermann, Selma. Serious Players in the Primary Classroom, NY, Teachers College Press, 1990

. . . .and the books listed under “Thinking About Stories” and “Reggio Emilia” above and below this tab.

Thinking About the Reggio Emilia Approach

Dahlberg, Gunilla, Peter Moss & Alan Pence. Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education & Care: Postmodern Perspectives, London, England: Falmer Press, 1999.

Edwards, Carolyn, Lella Gandini and George Forman. The Hundred Languages of Children, Norwood, NJ, Ablex, 1993. [1998. Ablex is now in Greenwich, CT. Get 2nd edition; it’s much better! SGC 1998]

Fraser, Susan. Authentic Childhood: Experiencing Reggio Emilia in the Classroom, Ontario, Canada: Nelson Thomson Learning, 2000.

Hendrick, Joanne. First Steps Toward Teaching the Reggio Way. New Jersey, Prentice Hall, 1997.

Katz, Lilian and Bernard Cesarone, eds. Reflections on the Reggio Emilia Approach,Urbana, IL, ERIC, 1994.

Reggio Emilia [City of]. I Cento Linguaggi dei Bambini: The Hundred Languages of Children, catalog of museum exhibit, c.1986. [get 2nd edition; it’s much better! SGC 1998]

Rodari, Gianni. The Grammar of Fantasy: An Introduction to the Art of Inventing Stories, Teachers and Writers Collaborative, 5 Union Sq., NY NY 10003-3306, 1996. Or order from me ($20 including shipping; I usually have them on hand.)

Topal, Cathy W. Children, Clay and Sculpture, Worcester, MA Davis Publications, Inc. 1983 (note: this isn’t about Reggio, but it fits! SGC)

AND two particularly wonderful descriptions of how they work in Reggio, produced by the schools themselves:

Everything Has a Shadow Except Ants (second edition)
Reggio Children, Italy, 1999, Illus. softbound, 89 pp.
available from http://www.learningmaterialswork.com/shop/reggio.htm
Encounters with shadows in many situations, a guide to working profoundly with children’s understanding of science

Shoe and Meter
Reggio Children, Italy,1997; Illus. softbound, 103 pp.
Initial approaches to the discovery, function, and use of measurement
from a project carried out at the Diana preschool.

Asante, M.K. African Elements in African American English. In J. Holloway, ed., Africanisms in American Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Baldwin, J. “If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is? Copyright 1979 by The New York Times Company.

Cazden, C.B. “Effective Instructional Practices in Bilingual Education.” Paper prepared for the National Institute of Education. 1984.

Cazden, C.B. Classroom Discourse. NH: Heinemann. 1988.

Cunningham, P.M. “Teachers’ Correction Responses to Black-Dialect Miscues Which are Nonmeaning-Changing”. Reading Research Quarterly, 1976-1977, 12.

Cummins, J. “Wanted: A Theoretical Framework for Relating Language Proficiency to Academic Achievement among Bilingual Students.” In C. Rivera, ed., Language Proficiency and Academic Achievement. Clevedon, England, Multilingual Matters.

Delpit, L. Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom.NY: New Press, 1995.

Gates, H.L., Jr. Bearing Witness. In HL Gates, Jr., ed., Selections of African-American Autobiography in the Twentieth Century. NY: Pantheon, 1991.

Hakuta, K. Mirror of Language. NY Basic Books. 1985.

Harvard Education Letter. When Children Speak Little
English: How Effective Is Bilingual Education? Vol II, No 6,
November, 1986.

Kozol, J. Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools. NY: Crown, 1991.

Perry, Theresa and Lisa Delpit. The Real Ebonics Debate. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998.

Salamone, R. Equal Education under Law. NY: St. Martin’s Press. 1986.

Suquamish Museum. The Eyes of Chief Seattle. Suquamish Tribal Cultural Center, WA: 1985.

Willig, A. “Meta-Analysis of Studies on Bilingual Education.” Review of Educational Research Vol 55 No 3 (1985).

Books About Infants

Books About Infants Recommended on the ECEOL-Listserv: May 2001  [With a little updating 2004]

Berry Brazelton’s book Touchpoints
Written for parents by a pediatrician who has spent his life working with families. The “touchpoints” are exactly what you are looking for as Brazelton uses this term to describe the milestones in young children’s lives .
Eileen Brittain 

The Social Baby by Clive Dorman and Liz Andrews
available from www.cpshopping.co.uk. This is a brilliant book, full of photos but with an emphasis on practical ideas for meeting all the needs of the baby. I like the way it focuses on meeting the babies emotional needs and helps parents to tune in to their babies needs and then be responsive to and meet those needs. This is one of the best baby books I have come across.
Clare Beswick 

The Social Baby (author’s comments to the listserv)
Looks at crying, sleep and the baby’s social and physical worlds with over 700 pictures, so it is ideal for the lay person. We published this book ourselves along with other books to help parents understand why their babies and small children behave the way they do. Yours and every baby is unique and you cannot (and must not) apply one set of rules to all. We are small company and in time we will have many more books, but The Social Baby is an amazing insight to the newborn’s abilities. Do have a look, we have a corporate and secure shopping site — www.cpshopping.co.uk . We’ve had some lovely reviews from parents and the media.
Clive Dorman

Infants, Toddlers, and Caregivers by Janet Gonzalez-Mena

Your Self Confident Baby By Magda Gerber
I read it many, many times when my Daughter – Now 3 (!!) was born and growing. Magda also has a website – www.rie.org
Dawn Rouse 

Dear Parent: Caring for Infants With Respect by Magda Gerber,
(Joan Weaver, Editor)  February 2003  [I’m adding this to the list in 2004,
it’s even better than Your Self Confident Baby.  SGC]

The Baby Book by William and Martha Sears 
(who had 8 children!). I have found it invaluable both personally and professionally!
Ann Fetter 

First Feelings-Milestones in Emotional Development by Stanley Greenspan. 
Amy Gilman 

Yes, I second the Greenspan work.. I’d include his Growth of the mind. I’d read just about any attachment parenting literature as well.
Susan Ludwig 

Growing Child and Growing Parent
I highly recommend a monthly newsletter series that comes timed to the current age in months of your child. They deal with typical development occurring in that month, and what families can do to support that development. It’s written by respected professionals for the lay person, is very down to earth, and does not require a lot of fancy toys or enormous time commitments. It’s by subscription (the cost is quite reasonable for the newsletter; two newsletters actually come: Growing Child and Growing Parent.) I’m sure you could request a sample copy. It’s published by

Dunn & Hargitt, Inc.
22 N. Second St.
Lafayette, IN 47902

They do monthly newsletters for the first four years, and then have other publications for the older child.
Caroll Lothrop 
Friends..
That is what worked best for me in my role as a parent, friends who already had children and were confidently parenting.  La Leche League too, for the hiccups in feeding, sleeping. Nuts and bolts books are good too, Penelope Leach, and a really old one written by Neil Begg, but that might be peculiar to NZ.
Robin Lambert 

Magic Trees of the Mind by Marion Diamond
I would like to add one other, perhaps with a little different focus.  It is an excellent resource explaining exactly what is happening in your precious little one’s brain. There is lots of good, practical, common sense advice for nurturing children — emotionally, socially, cognitively.
Kathleen Hedberg 

Benjamin Spock. The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care. 
Sheila Melusky