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The Biting Solution: The Expert's No-Biting Guide...
Call Number: HQ769 .P7864 2013
Creative Block Play: A Comprehensive Guide to Learning Through Building by Rosanne Regan Hansel
Call Number: LB1139.C7 H36 2017
The First R: How Children Learn Race and Racism
Call Number: HQ784.S56 V36 2001
Lost and Found: Helping Behaviorally Challenging Students
Call Number: LC4801 .G7245 2016
Lost at School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges are Falling Through the Cracks...
Call Number: LC4801 .G725 2014
The Whole-Brain Child
Call Number: HQ755.8 .S53123 2012

Reference Books

Early Childhood Education: An Int'l Encyclopedia
Publication Date: 2007
Encyclopedia of Education and Human Development
Publication Date: 2005
Encyclopedia of Educational Psychology
Publication Date: 2008
Learning from the Past
Publication Date: 2002
The Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood & Adolescence
Publication Date: 1998
Childhood & Children : A Compendium of Customs, Superstitions, Theories, Profiles, and Facts
Publication Date: 1997
Encyclopedia of Motherhood
Publication Date: 2010

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Natural Playscapes: Creating Outdoor Play Environments for the Soul
Call Number: GV425 .K44 2008
Create extraordinary outdoor places for young children without highly complex play contraptions. This magnificent 316-page resource contains close to 500 color photographs and illustrations.
Raising a School-ready Child: A Family Guide by Center on the Family,
[University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa]
Call Number: LB1132 .R34 2010
Hawaii Pacific Collection
Tools of the Mind: The Vygotskian Approach to Early Childhood Education
Call Number: LB1139.23 .B63 2007
As the only text of its kind, this book provides in-depth information about Vygotsky's theories, neo-Vygotskians' findings, and concrete explanations and strategies that instruct teachers how to influence student learning and development.
The Classrooms All Young Children Need
Call Number: LB1139.23 .C66 2011
Curricular matters: a pedagogy of meaning -- Early literacy, play, and a teaching philosophy -- Fantasy play and young children's search for meaning -- Storytelling and story acting: meaning extended -- Relational matters : a pedagogy of fairness -- Teaching as a moral act, classrooms as democratic spaces
Theories of Childhood: An Introduction to Dewey, Montessori, Erickson, Piaget & Vygotsky
Call Number: LB1139.23 .M64 2000
A look at the ideas of five educational theorists in relation to early childhood care. An easy-to-learn overview of the theorist opens each chapter. The author then distills the theorists’ work to reveal how it relates to child care and children.
The Complete Daily Curriculum for Early Childhood
Call Number: LB1139.35.A37 S35 2002
With more than 1,200 activities and ideas to engage multiple intelligences, assessment tools, and a comprehensive appendix of songs, stories, games and dances, props, recipes, patterns, chants, rhymes, and arts and crafts, you’ll find everything you need to captivate and challenge every child in your classroom.
Designs for Living and Learning: Transforming Early Childhood Environments
Call Number: LB1140.23 .C87 2003
The authors outline hundreds of ways to create healthy and inviting physical, social, and emotional environments for children in child care. Full-color photographs of actual early childhood programs demonstrate that the spaces children learn and grow in can be comfortable for children, teachers, and parents alike.
Who Am I in the Lives of Children? An Introduction to Early Childhood Education, 10th Edition
Call Number: LB1140.23 .F44 2016 (On Reserve)

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Child Development From Birth to Eight
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The book presents a detailed and in-depth picture of early years development, particularly of developmental processes and interactions. Rather than focusing on a particular topic, it offers a broad overview from a range of sources.
Early Childhood Assessment: Why, What, and How
Call Number: EBOOK
The assessment of young children's development and learning has recently taken on new importance. Private and government organizations are developing programs to enhance the school readiness of all young children, especially children from economically disadvantaged homes and communities and children with special needs.
From Crib to Kindergarten: The Essential Child Safety Guide
Call Number: E-BOOK
In this essential guide, an eminent child safety specialist explains how to reduce the risk of childhood injury at home -- and beyond. Her tips help protect children from birth to age five -- those who are most vulnerable to serious injury.
Supporting Creativity and Imagination in the Early Years
Call Number: E-BOOK
Bernadette Duffy draws on her extensive experience of promoting young children's creativity and imagination to examine how visual representations, music, dance, imaginative play and drama can enable children to express their feelings, thoughts and responses.
Engaging Play
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Self-Esteem Games for Children
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Obesity and Children

Fed Up! Winning the War Against Childhood Obesity
Call Number: EBOOK
Publication Date: 2005
Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Policies
Call Number: EBOOK
Publication Date: 2011
Pediatric Obesity FAQs
Call Number: EBOOK
Publication Date: 2007

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