Library

Books about Play
Resources for Early Childhood Teachers

Owocki, Gretchen. Make Way for Literacy: Teaching the Way Young Children Learn. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2001.

Paley, Vivian Gussin. Bad Guys Don’t Have Birthdays. 1991

Paley, Vivian Gussin. You Can't Say You Can't Play. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.

Saracho, Olivia N. and Spodek, Bernard (eds.) Multiple Perspectives on Play in Early Childhood Education. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1998.

Redleaf, Rhoda. Busy Fingers, Growing Minds. St. Paul, MN: Redleaf Press, 1993.

Redleaf, Rhoda and Robertson, Audrey. Learn and Play the Recycle Way. St. Paul, MN: Redleaf Press, 1999.

Redleaf, Rhoda. Open the Door, Let's Explore More! . St. Paul, MN: Redleaf Press, 1996.


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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


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