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Infant Care
Early Childhood Educational Approaches and Critiques
Family Life and Well-being

Infant Care

  1. The Baby Book by William and Martha Sears
  2. The Baby Sleep Book by William and Martha Sears
  3. The Attachment Parenting Book by William and Martha Sears
  4. Nighttime Parenting by William Sears
  5. The No- Cry Sleep Solution by Elizabeth Pantley
  6. Baby Massage: The Calming Power of Touch by Alan Heath
  7. Diaper Free By Ingrid Bauer
  8. First Feelings by Stanley Greenspan
  9. Attachment Parenting by Katie Allison Granju
  10. Your Fussy Baby by Marc Weissbluth
  11. Green Babies, Sage Moms: the Ultimate Guide to Raising Your Organic Baby by Lynda Fassa
  12. Your Amazing Newborn by Marshall Klaus and Phyllis Klaus
  13. Dear Parent: Caring for Infants with Respect by Magda Gerber
  14. Your Self-Confident Baby by Magda Gerber
  15. The RIE Manual edited by Magda Gerber
  16. Unfolding of Infants’ Natural Gross Motor Development by Emmi Pikler
  17. The Origins of Free Play by Eva Kallo and Gyorgyi Balog
  18. Trees Make the Best Mobiles by Jessica Teich and Brandel France de Bravo

Early Childhood Educational Approaches and Critiques

  1. The Parents Guide to Alternatives in Education by Ronald Koetzsch
  2. The Almanac of Education Choices edited by Jerry Mintz
  3. Alternative Approaches to Education by Fiona Carnie
  4. Research on Alternative and Non-Traditional Education edited by Julie Rainer Dangle and Edith M. Guyton
  5. The Montessori Method by Maria Montessori
  6. The Secret of Childhood by Maria Montessori
  7. The Discovery of the Child by Maria Montessori
  8. Dr. Montessori’s own Handbook by Maria Montessori
  9. Spontaneous Activity in Education by Maria Montessori
  10. The Essential Montessori by Elizabeth G Hainstock
  11. Teaching Montessori at Home: the Pre-School Years by Elizabeth G Hainstock
  12. Teaching Montessori at Home: the School Years by Elizabeth G Hainstock
  13. Montessori Play and Learn: A Parent’s Guide to Purposeful Play from Two to Six by Lesley Britton
  14. Montessori: the Science Behind the Genius by Angeline Stoll Lillard
  15. Montessori from the Start by Paula Polk Lillard and Lynn Lillard Jessen
  16. Montessori Today: A Comprehensive Approach to Education from Birth to Adulthood by Paula Polk Lillard
  17. Montessori: a Modern Approach Paula Polk Lillard
  18. Children Who Are Not Yet Peaceful: Preventing Exclusion in the Early Elementary Classroom by Donna Goertz
  19. Look at the Child by Aline D Wolf
  20. A Parents’ Guide to the Montessori Classroom by Aline D. Wolf
  21. 30 Questions, 30 Answers: a Montessori Education Reference Guide by Connie S Redwine
  22. Practical Advice to Teachers by Rudolf Steiner
  23. The Foundations of Human Experience by Rudolf Steiner
  24. The Education of the Child by Rudolf Steiner
  25. What is a Waldorf Kindergarten? By Sharifa Oppenheimer
  26. Heaven on Earth by Sharifa Oppenheimer
  27. Understanding Waldorf Education by Jack Prtrash
  28. Navigating the Terrain of Childhood by Jack Petrash
  29. A Child’s Work: The Importance of Fantasy Play by Vivian Gussin Paley
  30. Lifeways: Working with Family Questions by Gudrum Davy and Bons Voors
  31. Renewing Education Selected Writings on Steiner education by Francis Edmunds
  32. School as a Journey by Torin M Finser
  33. Beyond the Rainbow Bridge by Barbara J Patterson and Pamela Bradley
  34. Ready to Learn by Martyn Rawson and Michael Rose
  35. Better Late Than Early: A New Approach to Your Child’s Education by Raymond S. Moore, Dennis R. Moore, and Dorothy Moore
  36. You Are Your Child’s First Teacher by Rahima Baldwin Dancy
  37. Children at Play Using Waldorf Principles to Foster Childhood Development by Heidi Brits- Crecelius
  38. Educating as an Art Essays on Waldorf Education edited by Carol Bartges and Nick Lyons
  39. The Child, the Teachers and the Community by Jorgen Smit
  40. Working the Reggio Way by Julianne P Wurm
  41. Summerhill a Radical Approach to Learning by A.S Neil
  42. Free at Last the Sudbury Valley School by Daniel Greenberg
  43. No Homework and Recess All Day: How to Have Freedom and Democracy in Education by Jerry Mintz
  44. A Free Range Childhood Self Regulation at Summerhill School by Matthew Appleton
  45. The Unschooling Handbook Mary Griffith
  46. The Happy Child by Steven Harrison
  47. What are Schools For? Ron Miller
  48. No Contest by Alfie Kohn
  49. The Homework Myth by Alfie Kohn
  50. What Does it Mean to be Well Educated? by Alfie Kohn
  51. Punished by Rewards by Alfie Kohn
  52. The Schools our Children Deserve by Alfie Kohn
  53. How Children Fail by John Holt
  54. Instead of Education by John Holt
  55. Teach Your Own by John Holt
  56. Experience & Education by John Dewey
  57. The End of Homework by Etta Kralovec and John Buell
  58. Approaches to Early Childhood Education (textbook) Jaipaul L Roopnarine and James E Johnson
  59. Designs for Living and Learning by Deb Curtis and Margie Carter
  60. Early Childhood Today (textbook) by George S Morrison
  61. Pedagogy of Freedom by Paulo Freire
  62. Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
  63. Theories of Childhood by Carol Garhard Mooney
  64. Dumbing Us Down John Taylor Gatto

Family Life and Well-being

  1. Magical Child Joseph Chilton Pearce
  2. How Children Learn Through Play by Dorothy Einon
  3. Raising a Reader by Jennie Nash
  4. The Four-Thirds Solution by Stanley Greenspan
  5. The Secure Child by Stanley Greenspan
  6. The Creative Sprit by Daniel Gildman Paul Kaufman and Michael Ray
  7. The Brightening Glance: Imagination and Childhood by Ellen Handler Spitz
  8. Raising Your Spirited Child Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
  9. Little Big Minds by Marietta Mccarty
  10. Tender Care and Early Learning Jacalyn Post and Mary Hohmann
  11. Young Children’s Knowledge about Thinking by John H Flavell Frances l Green and Eleanor R Flavell
  12. Feeding Your Kids Rights Kathleen Moloney
  13. Childcare That Works by Eva and Mon Cochran
  14. Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn
  15. The Hurried Child by David Eklind
  16. In Defense of Childhood: Protecting Kids’ Inner Wildness by Chris Mercogliano
  17. Last Child in the Woods Richard Louv
  18. Natural Family Living by Peggy O’mara
  19. Parenting From the Inside Out by Daniel Siegel and Mary Hartzell
  20. The Vaccine Book: Making the Right Decision for Your Child by Robert Sears