Playing for Keeps

Books about Play
Resources for Early Childhood Teachers

Blakley, Barbara; Blau, Rosalie; Brady, Elizabeth H.; Streibert, Catherine; Zavitkovsky, Ann; Zavitkovsky, Docia. Activities for School-Age Child Care. Washington, D.C.: National Association for the Education of Young Children, 1989.

Bredekamp, Sue and Copple, Carol (eds.). Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs. Washington, D.C.: National Association for the Education of Young Children, 1997.

Brennan, Jan; Leonardi, Lisa; Timmons, Dale. Busy Kids Fine Motor Fun. Greensboro, NC: The Education Center, 1999.

Brennan, Jan; Flagg, Ann; Leonardi, Lisa; Timmons, Dale. Busy Kids Movement. Greensboro, NC: The Education Center, 1998.

Bruce, Tina. Learning Through Play: Babies, Toddlers, and the Foundation Years. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2001.

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Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood, for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul.

--Friedrich Froebel, "father" of modern kindergarten