Learning from Children in Early Childhood explores the social lives of preschoolers, delving into how they navigate friendship, conflict, and belonging throughout the school year. Through a collection of vivid stories children shared from their own perspectives, this book highlights the richness and complexity of children's relational pursuits, including how they both navigate tension and express deep desires for connection in the early years of school.Drawing from critica...

This book explores the social lives of preschoolers, exploring how they navigate friendship, conflict, and belonging throughout the school year. Through a collection of vivid stories children shared from their own perspectives, plus a thoughtfully curated collection of children’s visual work, this book highlights the richness and complexity of children’s relational pursuits, including how they both navigate tension and express deep desires for connection in the early years of school.

Capture beautiful and intentional photographs for documenting young children’s lives.In this book, author Ron Grady invites teachers to reflect on their own practice as educators using what is one of the most accessible but perhaps least deeply considered practices of documentation: photography. Photography is an accessible and powerful tool for reflection and documentation, and children’s day-to-day experiences in settings of care and education deserve to be captu...

A moving picture book about a girl settling into a new home with help from a camera and scrapbook.Beatrice loves her idyllic life in the countryside and all that comes with it. She loves building snowpeople in the winter, gardening in the spring, catching fireflies in the summer, and frolicking through freshly-fallen leaves in autumn. But when Papa gets a new job in a faraway city, Beatrice’s entire world changes. Saying goodbye to Gram and the stories she tells of...

This joyously affirming picture book follows a young boy throughout his day as he plays, paints, and bakes, making positive associations with the color of his skin.To Benny, brown is more than just a color. Brown is his Gram’s coffee and his Gramp’s morning kiss. Brown is the wooden spoon he uses for mixing and baking. It’s the ground that grows the tomatoes he loves and it’s the log he plays on. Brown is the fuzzy blanket he takes to his room at the end of the day...

What Does Developmentally Appropriate Practice Look Like in an Infant and Toddler Program?If you’ve ever wondered how effective teachers actually do DAP with very young children, this is the book for you. Here, you can peek into classrooms to see teachers making intentional decisions in key areas of practice. These areas form the six guidelines for DAP in action:You’ll discoverMore about what each guideline means for working with infa...