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I would like to share the following titles:
1. Diversity in Early Care and Education by Janet Gonzalez-Mena
2. A World of Difference by Carol Copple (Editor)
3. Teaching Adults by Elizabeth Jones
-Bina Patel

Literacy and the Youngest Learner: Susan Bennett-Armistead Nell K. Duke Annie M. Moses

Another great book for teachers would be, "Everybody Needs Rock, By Baylor?

"The Day that I was Born"

Books for preschool teachers:
"Basics of Developmentally Appropriate Practice: An Introduction fo Teachers of Children 3 to 6" by Carol Copple and Sue Bredekamp. A great, easy-to-read book that covers the fundamental concepts and practices that every new preschool teacher needs to understand and use.
"A Mind in the Making: the Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs" by Ellen Galinsky. The title says it all.

The Intentional Teacher by Ann Epstein
Developmentally Appropriate Practices
The Goodness of Rain by Ann Pelo
Designs for Living and Learning by Deb Curtis and Margie Carter

The list above is excellent, especially Jim Greenman's Caring Spaces, Learning Places and anything else he wrote. He is still missed so much. One of the books I have recommended over and over to ECE teachers and teacher educators is "Dibs: In Search of Self-Personality Development in Play Therapy" by Virginia M. Axline (Houghton Mifflin, 1964). I have re-read it many times. It is the case history of play therapy sessions with a little boy by a child psychologist. It offers many insights to a child's growing awareness of self, the language he uses, and how he relates to others. At the end of the book, 2 1/2 years after the therapy ended, Dr. Axline, called Miss A, and Dibs meet on the street. They become reacquainted and then Dibs says (recalling his therapy sessions): "You said to me, 'This is your room, Dibs. Have fun....' And I did have fun. I had the most wonderful time in my life. I built my world with you in the playroom. Remember?" This should be every early educator's goal: to provide an environment in which every child can build his/her world.

The Goodness of Rain by Ann Pelo. I'm in the middle of reading it right now. She so speaks about paying attention to the little things, slowing down and the real beauty of spending time with young children. Such a blessing in our hurry-up world.

The Intentional Teacher by Ann Epstein This book is required reading for my staff because it explains how to be with children in a natural, and engaging way.

Natural Playscapes by Rusty Keeler This book gives great inspiration for wonderful outdoor play spaces.

Designs for Living and Learning by Deb Curtis and Margie Carter This book covers indoor spaces beautifully.

Working in the Reggio Way by Julianne P. Wurm This book gives a good introduction to Reggio inspired schools in the United States. It is a good book to read before The Hundred Languages of Children by Carolyn Edwards, Lella Gandini, and George Foreman which is a very in depth study of the philosophy of the preprimary schools in Reggio Emilia Italy.

The Intentional Teacher by nn Epstein

Excellen book for early childhood professional:

Practical Solutions to Practicllly Every Problem by Steffen Saifer

helpful suggestions on a very wide variety of classroom and family issues.

Suggested books for early childhood teachers:

Learning Together With Young Children but Deb Curtis and Margie Carter
Caring Spaces, Learning Places by Jim Greenman
Powerful Interactions by Dombro, Jablon and Stetson
The States of Child Care by Sarah Gable

Insights and Inspirations from Reggio Emilia: Stories of Teachers and Children from North America, Edited by Lella Gandini, Susan Etheredge, and Lynn Hill

This book gave me a whole new perspective on working with young children and has changed the course of my career. It is truly inspirational!

"What Great Teachers Do Differently" by Todd Whitaker
"101 Principles for Positive Guidance with Young Children" by Katherine Kersey
"Mind in the Making" by Ellen Galinsky
"Being with Infants and Toddlers" by Beverly Kovach

"Velveteen Rabbit" by Margery Williams (to remind us all that we are very 'real' to the young children we serve and to re-connect us to the wonder of early childhood)

Teaching with Poverty in Mind by Eric Jensen. A critical read for those teaching children living in poverty!

Anything by Vivian Gussin Paley but especially "In Mrs Tully's Room."

For teachers who like to use nature to teach and who are looking to help reconnect children to the outdoors, I have to recommend our Growing Up WILD activity guide--each unit provides educators with wonderful ideas for how to tie vocabulary, snack time, math, science, centers, art, music and movement all back to nature!

Books to inspire teachers of young children: Mimi Brodsky Chenfeld's Teaching in the Key of Life; Mom Fox - Radical Reflections; anything by Vivian Palsy. These are books are return again and again to sustain my work, even after more than 30 years in the field. These ladies model the constant state of reflection and questioning ourselves in our work.

Books to inspire teachers of young children: Mimi Brodsky Chenfeld's Teaching in the Key of Life; Mom Fox - Radical Reflections; anything by Vivian Palsy. These are books are return again and again to sustain my work, even after more than 30 years in the field. These ladies model the constant state of reflection and questioning ourselves in our work.

The Intentional Teacher (NAEYC)
The Hundred Languages of Children (Reggio Emilia's approach to early childhood education)
Any books about The Project Approach (Lillian Katz and Sylvia Chard)

Vivian Gussin Paley! (how was she not on the list in the first place?)