RECOMMENDED BOOKS
most recent books
The Most Important Year: PreKindergarten and the Future of Our Children by Suzanne Bouffard, Bouffard, 2017. Read DEY Senior Advisor Diane Levin's review of this book here.
The Importance of Being Little: What Preschoolers Really Need from Grownups
by Erika Christakis, Viking Press, 2016.
The Importance of Being Little: What Preschoolers Really Need from Grownups
by Erika Christakis, Viking Press, 2016.
additional books
A Child’s Work: The Importance of Fantasy Play by Vivian Gussin Paley (or any of the many books by Vivian Gussin Paley), University of Chicago Press, 2005.
The Classrooms All Young Children Need by Patricia M. Cooper, University of Chicago Press, 2009.
The Death and Life of the Great American School System by Diane Ravitch, Basic Books, 2010.
Defending Childhood edited by Beverly Falk, Teachers College Press, 2012.
Different Learners: Identifying, Preventing, and Treating Your Child’s Learning Problems by Jane M. Healy, Simon & Schuster, 2011.
Facing the Screen Dilemma: Young Children, Technology and Early Education by Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, Alliance for Childhood, & Teachers Resisting Unhealthy Children’s Entertainment, 2012.
Finnish Lessons by Pasi Sahlberg, Teachers College Press, 2011.
The Flat World and Education by Linda Darling-Hammond, Teachers College Press, 2010.
Playing for Keeps: Life and Learning on a Public School Playground by Deborah Meier, Brenda S. Engel and Beth Taylor, Teachers College Press, 2010.
Reclaiming Childhood by William Crain, Owl Books, 2004.
Seen and Heard: Children’s Rights in Early Childhood Education by Ellen Lynn Hall and Jennifer Kofkin Rudkin, Teachers College Press, 2011.
Taking Back Childhood by Nancy Carlsson-Paige, Plume. 2008.
The War Play Dilemma by Diane E. Levin and Nancy Carlsson-Paige, Teachers College Press, 2006.
The Classrooms All Young Children Need by Patricia M. Cooper, University of Chicago Press, 2009.
The Death and Life of the Great American School System by Diane Ravitch, Basic Books, 2010.
Defending Childhood edited by Beverly Falk, Teachers College Press, 2012.
Different Learners: Identifying, Preventing, and Treating Your Child’s Learning Problems by Jane M. Healy, Simon & Schuster, 2011.
Facing the Screen Dilemma: Young Children, Technology and Early Education by Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, Alliance for Childhood, & Teachers Resisting Unhealthy Children’s Entertainment, 2012.
Finnish Lessons by Pasi Sahlberg, Teachers College Press, 2011.
The Flat World and Education by Linda Darling-Hammond, Teachers College Press, 2010.
Playing for Keeps: Life and Learning on a Public School Playground by Deborah Meier, Brenda S. Engel and Beth Taylor, Teachers College Press, 2010.
Reclaiming Childhood by William Crain, Owl Books, 2004.
Seen and Heard: Children’s Rights in Early Childhood Education by Ellen Lynn Hall and Jennifer Kofkin Rudkin, Teachers College Press, 2011.
Taking Back Childhood by Nancy Carlsson-Paige, Plume. 2008.
The War Play Dilemma by Diane E. Levin and Nancy Carlsson-Paige, Teachers College Press, 2006.