Teaching/Resource Books & Materials

A variety of resource books available.   

Category Title Author Type
Administrative Basics of Assessment: A primer for early Childhood Educators McAfee, Leong and Bodrova R
Administrative Creative Curriculum for Family Child Care Dodge & Colker R
Administrative Does your team work? Ideas for bringing your staff together Child Care Information Exchange R
Administrative Family Child Care Contracts & Policies Copeland R
Administrative Family child Care record-keeping guide Copeland R
Administrative Family-Friendly Communication for Early Childhood Programs Diffily & Morrison A
Administrative On target Marketing: promoting Strategies for child care centers Child care Information Exchange R
 Administrative  PQA: Family Child Care  High Scope      R
 Administrative  PQA: Infant-Toddler  High Scope  R
 Administrative  PQA: Preschool  High Scope  R
Administrative Parent Communication Tips- 60 reproducible send homes Scholastic A
Administrative Practical Solutions to Practically every problem Steffen Saifer R
Administrative Remote control Childhood? Combating the hazards of media culture Diane Levin R
Administrative Side by Side mentoring Teachers for Reflective Practice (3) Harvest Resources DVD
Administrative The Art of Leadership: managing Early Childhood Organizations Vol. 1 Revised edition Child Care Information Exchange R
Administrative The Art of Leadership: managing Early Childhood Organizations Vol. 2 Child care Information Exchange R
Administrative The Big book of Humorous training games Tamblyn & Weiss A
Administrative The big book of icebreakers Edie West A
 Administrative  Who Moved My Cheese?
 Spencer Johnson, M.D.
 R
Brain development Brain facts: A primer on the brain and nervous system The Society for neuroscience R
Brain development Building Children’s Brains (4) Joan Lessen-Firestone DVD
Brain development Different Brains, Different Learners- How to reach the hard to reach Eric Jensen R
Brain development From Neurons to neighborhoods   R
Curriculum- Activities A Backpack of Crafts   A
Curriculum- Activities Activity Guide for holidays and Seasons Beckman, Simmons & Thomas A
Curriculum- Activities Art for all seasons Creative Kids A
Curriculum- Activities Creative Crafts for Clever Kids Creative Kids A
Curriculum- Activities December: A Month of Activities at your Fingertips Mailbox A
Curriculum- Activities Disney’s Christmas Crafts Scholastic A
Curriculum- Activities Easy Crafts for Kids Reader's Digest A
Curriculum- Activities Exploring arts & crafts with 2 -6 yr olds: the Little hands Art book Judy press A
Curriculum- Activities Kids’ Computer Creations: Using your computer for art & craft fun Carol Sabbeth A
Curriculum- Activities Learn & Play the Green Way Rhoda Redleaf A
Curriculum- Activities Learn & Play the Recycle Way: Homemade toys that teach Redleaf & Robertson A
Curriculum- Activities May: A Month of Activities at your Fingertips Mailbox A
Curriculum- Activities Mister Rogers’ Plan & Play Book- Activities that match shows (3 copies) PBS A
Curriculum- Activities More Mudpies: 101 Alternatives to television Nancy Blakey A
Curriculum- Activities More Story Stretchers Raines and Canady A
Curriculum- Activities Mudworks: Creative clay, dough and modeling experiences MaryAnn kohl A
Curriculum- Activities November: A Month of Activities at your Fingertips Mailbox A
Curriculum- Activities Preschool Art: It's the process, not the product MaryAnn Kohl A
Curriculum- Activities Routines and Transitions Nicole Malenfant R
Curriculum- Activities Story Stretchers Raines and Canady A
Curriculum- Activities Teaching with Favorite Marc Brown Books Bonnie Brown Walmsley R
Curriculum- Activities The Giant book of Children’s Songs Cherry Lane Music A
Curriculum- Activities The Giant Encyclopedia of Circle Time and group Activities for Children 3-6 yr gryphon House, Inc A
Curriculum- Activities The Kids’ Multiculture Art Book Alexandra Terzian A
Curriculum- Activities Transition Magician Larson, Henthrone & Plum A
Curriculum- Activities Transition Magician 2 Larson, Henthrone & Chvojicek A
Curriculum -Theory Curriculum for Preschool & Kindergarten: A discussion with Lillian Katz NAEYC VHS
 Curriculum -Theory  Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs (3rd Ed.) (2 copies)
 Carol Copple and Sue Bredekamp, Eds.  R & CD
Curriculum -Theory Emergent Curriculum: Interpreting the Reggio Emilia Approach Carol Anne Wien R
Curriculum -Theory How to develop theme studies to fit your curriculum Penny Strube R
Curriculum -Theory Lessons that last High Scope VHS
Curriculum -Theory Play & Learning: A discussion with Barbara Biber NAEYC VHS
Curriculum -Theory Spotlight on Young Children and Play Derry Koralek, NAEYC R
Community Engagement Strengthening Families: A Guidebook for Early Childhood Programs 2nd Ed.  Center for the Study of Social Policy  R
Community Engagement Who's Watching the Babies? Improving the Quality of Family, Friend, and Neighbor Care  Douglas R. Powell  R
Diversity/Tolerance Alike and Different Bonnie Neugebauer R
Diversity/Tolerance Anti-Bias Curriculum: Tools for empowering children Dermon-Sparks and ABC task force R
Diversity/Tolerance Caring for Children of Color: The Child Care Patterns of White, Black, and Hispanic Children under 5  Jeffery Capizzano, Gina Adams, Jason Ost  R
Diversity/Tolerance Families Are Different Nina Pellegrini Childrens
Diversity/Tolerance From Conflict to peace Building Lessons from around the World Connolly & Hayden R
Diversity/Tolerance I Will Be your Friend, Songs and activities for young peacemakers Teaching Tolerance CD and songbook
Diversity/Tolerance   Many Voices: Creating a Multicultural Perspective in Your Classroom  Scholastic  VHS
Diversity/Tolerance Rhinos & Raspberries: tolerance tales - 3 pieces Lois Lowry A
Diversity/Tolerance Roots & Wings: Affirming Culture in early childhood programs Stacey York R
Diversity/Tolerance Starting Small: Teaching Tolerance Teaching Tolerance Project Video
Diversity/Tolerance Teaching Young Children in Violent Times: Building a peaceful classroom Diane Levin R
Diversity/Tolerance Whoever You Are Mem Fox Childrens
Guidance & Discipline Children with Challenging Behavior- Strategies for Reflective Thinking Linda & Tom Brault R
Guidance & Discipline How to talk so kids will Listen & Listen so kids will talk Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish R
Guidance & Discipline Meeting the Challenge: effective strategies for challenging behaviors (5) Kaiser & Rasminsky R
Guidance & Discipline No David! David Shannon Childrens
Guidance & Discipline What do you do with a child like this? Inside the lives of Troubled Children L. Tobin  
Health & Safety- Car Seat Child Passenger Safety: A Parent's Guide to Child Safety Seats OHSP DVD
Health & Safety- Prevention Healthy Preschoolers at school and at home Alice Mccarthy R
Language/Literacy Bone Poems Jeff Moss A
Language/Literacy Come on and Sing Bev Boss, Michael Leeman and Tom Hunter DVD
 Language/Literacy  Children, Language and Literacy: Diverse Learners in Diverse Times  Celia Genishi and Anne Haas Dyson  R
Language/Literacy Designed to Delight: Activities to Enhance Children's Enjoyment of Books Fearon Teacher Aids A
Language/Literacy Dino Riddles Katy Hall A
Language/Literacy Ella Jenkins – Songs children love to sing Smithsonian Folkways CD
Language/Literacy From Lullabies to Literature (2 copies) Birckmayer, Kennedy and Stonehouse R
Language/Literacy Poems by James Stevenson 3 book set: Popcorn, Candy Corn and Cornflakes James Stevenson A
Language/Literacy Pterodactyls and Pizza Book of Poetry Trumpet Book Club A
Language/Literacy Reading & Young Children: A discussion with Jan McCarthy NAEYC VHS
Language/Literacy Rhymes and Songs Joyce Bischoff CD
Language/Literacy take me out of the bathtub and other silly dilly songs Alan Katz A
Language/Literacy The Complete Book of Rhymes, Songs, Poems, Fingerplays and Chants Siberg and Schiller A
Language/Literacy Too Many Rabbits and Other Fingerplays Kay Cooper A
Language/Literacy What you need to know when your child is learning to read Sara Wilford R
Language/Literacy Writing in Preschool- Learning to orchestrate meaning and marks Schickedanz & Casbergue R
Math Mathematics Their Way Center for Innovation in Education A
Math The Young Child and Mathematics Juanita Copley R
Music  Wee Sing  Pamela Beall Sing-a-long book and tape
Music  Wee Sing and Play  Pamela Beall  Sing-a-long book and tape
Music  Wee Sing for Christmas  Pamela Beall  Sing-a-long book and tape
Music   Wee Sing Silly Songs  Pamela Beall  Sing-a-long book and tape
Nutrition Adventures in learning with the Food Guide Pyramid Association for Child Development A
Nutrition Dealing with Food Allergies in babies and children Janice Vickerstaff Joneja R
Nutrition Everybody Cooks Rice Norah Dooley Childrens
Nutrition Good Enough to Eat Lizzy Rockwell Childrens
Nutrition Healthy eating with mypyramid (8 books) Mari Schuh Childrens
Nutrition Just Take a Bite- easy, effective answers to food aversions and eating challenges! Ernsperger & Stegen-Hanson R
Nutrition Kinder-Krunchies: Healthy snack recipes for children Karen Jenkins A
Nutrition One Potato Sue Porter Childrens
Nutrition The Allergy Self-Help Cookbook Marjorie Hunt Jones A
Nutrition The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food Stan Berenstain Childrens
Nutrition The big book of recipes for babies, toddlers & children Wardley & More A
Nutrition The Fairy Tale Cookbook Sandra Moore A
Nutrition Tickle Your Appetite TEAM Nutrition R
Physical Activity/Movement Chicken and noodle games – 141 Fun Activities with Innovative Equipment Byl, Baldauf, Doyle, Raithby A
Physical Activity/Movement Everybody Wins – 393 non-competitive games Jeffrey Sobel A
Physical Activity/Movement No Gym? No Problem- Physical Activities for Tight Spaces Charmain Sutherland A
Physical Activity/Movement Teaching Children Fitness T. Ratliffe & L. Ratliffe R
Physical Activity/Movement The New Games Book – Play Hard, Play Fair, Nobody Hurt Headlands Press Book A
School-Age Activities for school age child care- Playing and Learning Blakley, Blau, Brady et. al. A
School-Age Caring for School Age Children Phyllis Click R
School-Age Half a Childhood- Time for school age child care Bender, Schuyler-Haas Elder, Flatter R
Science Exploration/Discovery A Year of hands-on Science Scholastic A
Science Exploration/Discovery Bite Sized Science John Falk R
Science Exploration/Discovery Building structures with young children Chalufour and Worth R
Science Exploration/Discovery Foolproof, Failsafe Seasonal Science Instructor Big Book A
Science Exploration/Discovery Fun Science – Learn and Discover Book Creative Child Press A
Science Exploration/Discovery Hug A Tree and Other Things to Do Outdoors Rockwell, Sherwood, Williams A
Science Exploration/Discovery Science Boosters- projects and games that boost science and thinking skills Dana McMillan & Sidney Martin A
Science Exploration/Discovery Taming the Wild Outdoors- Building cooperative learning through outdoor education Mark Levin A
Science Exploration/Discovery The Great Outdoors- Restoring Children’s Right to Play Outside Mary Rivkin R
Science Exploration/Discovery The Kids’ Nature Book- 365 Indoor/Outdoor Activities and Experiments Susan Milford A
Science Exploration/Discovery Worms, Shadows and Whirlpools Karen Worth & Sharon Grollman R
Social Emotional A Guide for Divorcing Parents (2) Soderman, Eveland & Ellard R
Social Emotional Character Development: Encouraging Self-esteem and Self-discipline Polly Greenberg R
Social Emotional Me, You, us Social Emotional learning in Preschool (2 copies)
Ann Epstein R
Social Emotional Reducing Stress in Young Children’s Lives Janet McCracken R
Social Emotional The Crisis Manual- How to handle the Really difficult problems Karen Miller R
Social Emotional The Power of Guidance- Teaching Social emotional skills Dan Gartrell R
Social Emotional What Am I Feeling? (feeling cards) Talaris Institute R
Social Emotional What Happened to my world?  Helping children cope with natural disaster and catastrophe Jim Greenman R
Social-Emotional Helping Children Cope with Frightening Events (2 copies) Educational Activities DVD
Social-Emotional Sharing & Caring Creative Teaching Press A
Special Needs A handbook to bring Sensory Integration into the Home Occupational Therapy Services A
Special Needs A Place for Me Phyllis A Chandler R
Special Needs Resources for teaching children with diverse abilities (2 copies) Penny Low deiner R
Special Needs Welcoming ALL Children- Creating Inclusive Child Care (2 copies) Freeman, Hutter-Pishgahi, Traub R
Special Needs Widening the Circle Samuel Odom R

Special Needs

Young Exceptional Children: Teaching Strategies that support development



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* R= Resource Book; A= Activity Book;

Updated 4/26/12