Australian and New Zealand Books
A to Z of Special Needs
A Practical Resource for Early Childhood and Primary TeachersAuthor(s): Anne Vize (click on the author's name for more titles)
This indispensable reference covers 50 disabilities in easily accessible double-page spreads including autism, asthma, ADHD, coeliac disease, cerebral palsy, developmental delay, dyslexia, epilepsy, obesity, muscular dystrophy, visual processing disorders, and many others.
RRP $39.95
Adults and Children Learning Together
Author(s): Pam Hanna (click on the author's name for more titles)
Through the use of many colourful and interesting stories and examples, this book makes a very persuasive case for looking carefully and listening sensitively to children as a basis for planning. Relevant to both centre-based and family day care settings, in both Australia and New Zealand, it gives new meaning to the idea of 'starting with the child'.
Written for educators who are focussed on, and proactive about extending young children's learning.
RRP $39.95 | Discount price: $19.95 | You save 50%
Assessment for Learning
Documentation and Planning for the EYLFAuthor(s): Bridie Raban (click on the author's name for more titles)
Planning and observation are at the heart of any early years setting, and this straight-to-the-point guide gives a wealth of clear instructions on best practice in planning for young children’s learning, and observing their development.
RRP $39.95
Before 9 After 3
A Handbook for Outside School Hours CareAuthor(s): Alison Jones, Sue Tarrant (click on the author's name for more titles)
A comprehensive and practical Australian guide to setting up and providing quality care in Outside School Hours Care programs. Designed for trained and untrained child carers, TAFE students and teachers, and community members or parents in management committees.
RRP $34.95
Children's Resilience:
Working with the Early Years Learning FrameworkAuthor(s): Pam Linke, Judy Radich (click on the author's name for more titles)
It is generally understood as the capacity to recover or bounce back from setbacks in life. The scientific understanding of resilience is specifically developed in relation to young children who have experienced setbacks and is about what adults can do to help them make the most of their lives. Resilience provides the underpinning for all children to succeed in their education and in the rest of their lives.
RRP $15.95
Dance, Shaba, Dance and Other Puppet Stories
Author(s): Yvonne Winer (click on the author's name for more titles)
This beautiful book, illustrated in full colour, is the first in a series of companion books to Stories for Telling. Rhymes, Puppets, Drama. The stories in this book, are written for participation, reading aloud, puppet telling, felt and magnetic boards, and sand trays. Many are invitations to dramatise, to dance, or create music. Most of the stories are illustrated with puppets constructed from a diverse range of materials.
RRP $20.00
Discovery Play
Play in the Early YearsAuthor(s): Bridie Raban, Sheilla Riddell-Leech (click on the author's name for more titles)
This practical guide offers advice on setting up treasure basket and discovery play sessions at all stages up to 5 years old. It comes with links to the EYLF and schemas.
RRP $32.95
Early Childhood Education and Care
A Sociocultural ApproachAuthor(s): Susan Edwards (click on the author's name for more titles)
Early Childhood Education and Care: A Sociocultural Approach celebrates the ideas of children, families and teachers. Drawn from research conducted with preschool teachers from the City of Casey, Victoria, this book highlights how sociocultural theory can be used in practice.
RRP $39.95
Early Years Learning Framework , The:
Getting StartedAuthor(s): Joy Goodfellow (click on the author's name for more titles)
This guide is specifically designed to introduce and support educators in coming to know about, understand and work with the EYLF. This book explores the central understanding upon which the Framework has been built, and looks at the why and how of educator's engagement with the ideas and understandings that can be found within it.
RRP $15.95
Early Years Learning Framework , The:
Building Confident LearnersAuthor(s): Leonie Arthur (click on the author's name for more titles)
Author Leonie Arthur uses practical examples in this book to show how some children demonstrate their progress towards meeting these outcomes and how some early childhood settings plan, document and reflect on children's learning.
RRP $15.95
Early Years Learning Framework in Practice, The
A Handbook for Educators and ParentsAuthor(s): Amelia Church, Bridie Raban, Jan Deans, Kay Margetts (click on the author's name for more titles)
This book is intended to help directors, co-ordinators and educators to implement the EYLF with confidence, and is the first to provide a practical resource to assist early childhood professionals in this task.
RRP $39.95
Exploring Emotions:
How You Can Help Children to Recognise and Talk about their FeelingsAuthor(s): Kay Margetts, Ros Bayley (click on the author's name for more titles)
This book takes a sensitive look at the whole range of human emotions and shows how to help children recognise and talk about them.
RRP $29.95
Growin Up Strong CD
Author(s): Wendy Notley (click on the author's name for more titles)
Growin Up Stong is a collection of children's songs with an Aboriginal perspective, inspired by Wendy's many years of teaching Aboriginal children. The songs honour Aboriginal children, celebrate their cultures and educate non-Aboriginal children, encouraging them to appreciate and explore Aboriginal cultures at a very young age.
RRP $32.95
Growin' Up Strong
Teacher Resource BookAuthor(s): Wendy Notley (click on the author's name for more titles)
This book is a collection of children's songs with an Aboriginal perspective, inspired by Wendy's many years of teaching with Aboriginal children. The songs honour Aboriginal children, celebrate their cultures and educate non-Aboriginal children, encouraging them to appreciate and explore Aboriginal cultures at a very young age.
RRP $55.95
Happy to be Me CD
Author(s): Wendy Notley (click on the author's name for more titles)
The songs on this CD express the joy and pride that lives strong in Aboriginal children and reflect contemporary interests and life experiences that all children can relate to. Twenty two Aboriginal language groups and communities from around Australia are included in the lyrics.
RRP $32.95
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