Jigsaw puzzles are one of the simplest and most effective ways to learn while having fun! Created for pre-school children, the aim of this new and innovative collection is to unite reading time with playtime and manual creativity. In each volume, the pages of text are alternated with puzzle pages to put back together: in order to see how many sheep there are in the field, or what the bird's house is made of, children will have to piece together Ronnie Gazzola's illustrations on their own, giving then a whole new sense of satisfaction! Depending on the volume, the puzzles are made up of 1 or 6 pieces: in both cases they are very easy to put back together, but at the same time stimulating and exciting (and made in durable cardboard!). In "Numbers and colours with Leo the Chameleon" and "Life on the Farm", the two-piece puzzles will teach children to count from one to five and to recognise colours together with some lovely little animals; in "Where do they live?" and "Little Dinosaur", the six-piece puzzles will teach them to link each animal to their home in the first book and all about the most famous dinosaurs in the second. This is a sure method for children to learn with ease and above all having lots of fun! AGES: 3 plus AUTHOR: Ronny Gazzolla was born in a little town near Venice. After the diploma at the artistic high school and through workshops and several international competitions he approached illustration. He has worked as freelancer with several companies. He realises editorial illustrations, illustrations for children and graphic projects.

The 8th edition of this bestselling text provides a framework and instructional strategies for identifying, selecting, and teaching high-quality children’s literature for ages 0–8. This new edition’s emphasis on diverse literature will assist in positively impacting the lives of all young people. Effective instructional approaches for using literature as a teaching tool are coupled with developmentally appropriate methods for sharing literature with young children. This book is a foundational text for graduate and undergraduate students in early childhood education, early literacy, literacy methods, children’s literature, and literature instruction.

For Charles Fernyhough, the birth of his daughter Athena was an opportunity to re-evaluate much of what he had learned as a researcher in developmental psychology. Drawing on the detailed notes he made during her infancy, Fernyhough uses Athena's story to explain how a child's mind develops before the age of three, tapping into a parent's wonder at the processes of psychological development in an engaging, child-centred way. It is written with a father's tenderness and a novelist's empathy and style.

Examines the way that Amish parents raise their children, arguing for the group's basic parenting principles in order to produce happy, well-adjusted children.