Resource List: Additional Recommended Books for ECE & Caregivers
The role of an early childhood educator in shaping young minds is both profound and dynamic. The foundation you help build in a child's early years influence their lifelong learning, emotional well-being, and social development. The following list encompasses a range of topics and have been selected to empower your early learning programming and care. Early Childhood Educators and others who support parents and children in their work are welcome to borrow from our special collection—we look forward to meeting you at the WELL. Please click to download a printable PDF.
- The Compassionate Classroom: Relationship Based Teaching and Learning
By Sura Hart and Victoria Kindle Hodson.
A practical guide for creating emotionally safe learning environments. - Seen & Heard: Children’s Rights In Early Childhood Education
By Ellen Lynn Hall and Jennifer Kofkin Rudkin.
Using examples from a Reggio inspired school for children from 6 weeks to 6 years, the authors emphasize the importance of children’s rights and our responsibility as adults to hear their voices. - Socially Strong, Emotionally Secure: 50 Activities To Promote Resilience In Young Children
By Nefertiti Bruce and Karen B. Cairone.
This book is a guide to promoting emotional resilience through supportive, caring practices, home and school partnerships, experiences, routines, play, and through the learning environment. - Love Builds Brain
By Jean Clinton MD
Jean Clinton lays out the early years’ journey of attachment, self-regulation, connection, resilience and well-being, and does so with scientific explanations measured out in understandable doses. This book is full of deeply researched wisdom, offered in a conversational style. - Set for Life: An Early Childhood Teacher’s Guide to
Supporting Strong Emotional Foundations and Successful Social
Relationships
By Michelle M. Forrester
The guide shares practical strategies for supporting strong emotional connections in early childhood settings. - Getting to the Heart of Learning:
Social-emotional Skills Across the Early Childhood Curriculum
By Ellen Booth Church
The best learning emerges in a classroom community where children feel accepted and appreciated for their ideas and actives. This book shows teachers and caregivers how easy it is to foster children’s sense of curiosity through group explorations that promote social connection and positive development. - How Culture Shapes Social-emotional
Development: Implications for Practice in Infant-Family Programs
By Monimalika Day
This book examines how culture shapes children’s fundamental learning about themselves, their emotions, and their way of interacting and relating to others. - Socially Strong, Emotionally Secure: 50
Activities to Promote Resilience in Young Children
By Nefertiti Bruce
For adults working with children ages 3-8, this book contains strategies and activities that support healthy social and emotional development in young children. - Roots of Empathy: Changing the World, Child by
Child
By Mary Gordon
Gordon aims to explain the value of and how best to nurture empathy and social and emotional literacy in all children – and thereby reduce aggression, antisocial behaviours, and bullying.