Week by Week: Plans for Documenting Children’s Development
WEEK BY WEEK: PLANS FOR DOCUMENTING CHILDREN’S DEVELOPMENT, Fifth Edition, addresses a dilemma facing pre-service and in-service teachers–how to manage detailed, meaningful documentation on their students’ development and achievements while attending to the other functions necessary to keep children safe and actively involved in learning. This all-purpose guide provides a concrete, systematic plan for recording [...]
Discovering Successful Pathways in Children’s Development: Mixed Methods in the Study of Childhood and Family Life
Discovering Successful Pathways in Children’s Development provides a new perspective on the study of childhood and family life. Successful development is enhanced when communities provide meaningful life pathways that children can seek out and engage. Successful pathways include both a culturally valued direction for development and competence in skills that matter for a child’s subsequent success [...]
Playing on the Mother-Ground: Cultural Routines for Children’s Development
Theorists of child development, for the most part, have taken white, middle class, Euro-American children as the norm. These “typical” children, however, are exposed to two major enculturating influences that are by no means common across cultures: formal schooling and parents who consciously attempt to serve as teachers at home. Providing an important contribution toward [...]
Illustrating Children’s Books: Creating Pictures for Publication
The successful book illustrator starts by understanding his author’s flight of fancy, then rendering the ideas and actions imaginatively in pictorial terms. This unusual and inspiring book was written for art students and ambitious beginners. It instructs on methods of developing both imaginative powers and the technical artistic skills to produce high quality illustrations that [...]
The Encyclopedia of Writing and Illustrating Children’s Books: From creating characters to developing stories, a step-by-step guide to making magical picture books
The latest in our best selling Encyclopedia of Art series now focuses on a popular topic for both writers and illustrators: how to make, craft, and sell children’s books. This practical book is a step-by-step guide to becoming a successful graphic storyteller, showing how to create exciting plots and engaging characters that will delight young [...]
Chaos and Its Influence on Children’s Development: An Ecological Perspective
This book explores how, why, and at what level chaos at the familial and societal level affects children. It uses Urie Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological theory of human development as the means to understand the nature of relations between chaos and development. There is growing evidence that exposure to chaos can adversely impact children’s development and family [...]
The Children’s Book of Virtues
The perfect companion to William J. Bennett’s number-one bestseller; The Book of Virtues, The Children’s Book of Virtues is the ideal storybook for parents and children to enjoy together: With selections from The Book of Virtues, from Aesop and Robert Frost to George Washington’s life as well as Native American and African folklore, [...]
Writing Children’s Books for Dummies
The fun and easy way to write a childrens book that will impress any publishing house The childrens book market can be difficult to crack for first-time authors. This friendly guide shows would-be J. K. Rowlings how to maximize their chances of success, offering practical, proven [...]
The 20th-Century Children’s Book Treasury: Picture Books and Stories to Read Aloud
Unparalleled in scope and quality and designed for reading aloud and
sharing, this splendid anthology brings together 43 of the most memorable and
beloved children’s books of our time. Here are classics such as Madeline
and Curious George; contemporary bestsellers such as Guess How Much I
Love You and The Stinky Cheese Man; Caldecott Medal winners such as
Make Way [...]
Children’s Book of Art
This engaging guide takes children on an international tour of the world’s greatest art, from the first daubs of paint in prehistoric caves to today’s performance art. It includes all of the important art movements, from Renaissance to Rococo, as well as the great painters from all these eras. However, the approach is to look [...]
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