Book Recommendations

New Book Selections 2020-2021

Book Selection 1: The Gratitude Project Edited by Jeremy Adam Smith, Kira M. Newman, Jason Marsh & Dacher Keltner

Book Selection 2: The Feeling Book by Todd Parr

Book Selection 3: Not a Box by Antoinette Portis

Book Selection 4: The Bus Stop by Nancy Hellen

Book Selection 5: My Friend and I by Lisa Jahn-Clough

Book Selection 6: White Rabbit's Color Book by Alan Baker 

Book Selection 7: The Relatives Came by Cynthis Ryland 

Book Selection 8: New York Times 25 Best Children's Books 2020

Book Selection 9: Night Owl by Toni Yuly

Book Selection 10: Andew's Amazing Monsters by Kathryn Hook Berlan   Video Link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfTxmR9T4pE

Book Selection 11: I Like Me by Nancy Carlson  Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=TGXJlyscZ6s

Book Selection 12: When You Are Happy by Eileen Spinelli

 

Book Selections 2019-2020

Book Selection 1: The Philosophical Baby by Alison Gopnik

Book Selection 2: Everyday Goodbyes by Nancy Balaban

Book Selection 3: The Importance of Being Little by Erika Christakis

Book Selection 4: Play by Stuart Brown, M.D.

Book Selection 5: Raising a Thinking Child by Myrna B. Shure, Ph.D.

Book Selection 6: Great Kids by Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D.

Book Selection 7: It's OK to Go Up the Slide by Heather Shumaker

Book Selection 8: The Whole-Brain Child by Daniel J. Siegel, M.D.

Book Selection 9: Motivated Minds by Deborah Stipek, Ph.D. and Kathy Seal

Book Selection 10: UnSelfie by Michele Borba, Ed.D.

Book Selection 11: How to Raise an Adult by Julie Lythcott-Haims

Book Selection 12: Childhood Unbound by Ron Taffel, Ph.D.

Book Selection 13: The Power of Play by David Elkind, Ph.D.

Book Selection 14: The Complete Father by Michael O. Weiner and Les Paul Gallo-Silver

Book Selection 15: The Hundred Languages of Children by Carolyn Edwards, Lella Gandini and George Forman

Book Selection 16: Practical Parenting For The 21st Century by Julie A. Ross, M.A.

Book Selection 17: Now What Do I Do? by Julie A. Ross, M.A.

Book Selection 18: The Optimistic Child by Martin E.P. Seligman, Ph.D.

Book Selection 19: The Out-of-Sync Child by Carol Stock Kranowitz, M.A.

Book Selection 20: The New Childhood by Jordan Shapiro

Book Selection 21: Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain by Daniel J Siegel MD  

Book Selection 22: The Orchid and the Dandelion by W. Thomas Boyce, M.D.

Book Selection 23: Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5 - Sixth Edition

Book Selection 24: Creativity The Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Book Selection 25: Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Book Selection 26: Drawing with Children by Mona Brookes

Book Selection 27: First Art by MaryAnn F. Kohl

Book Selection 28: The Parent's Tao Te Ching by William Martin

Book Selection 29: No-Drama Discipline by Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. and Tina Payne Bryson, PH.D.

Book Selection 30: Building Academic Success on Social and Emotional Learning Edited by Joseph E. Zins, Roger P. Weissberg, Margaret C. Wang, and Herbert J. Walberg

Book Selection 31: How Girls Thrive by JoAnn Deak, Ph.D. with Dory Adams

Book Selection 32: Seen & Heard Children's Rights in Early Childhood Education by Ellen Lynn Hall and Jennifer Kofkin Rudkin

Book Selection 33: Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child by John Gottman, Ph.D.

Book Selection 34: Everyday Goodbyes: Starting School and Early Care. A Guide to the Seperation Process by Nancy Balaban

Book Selection 35: I Love You All Day Long by Francesca Rusackas

Book Selection 36: When I Miss You by Cornelia Spelman

Book Selection 37: The Gardener and The Carpenter by Alison Gopnik

Book Selection 38: Something from Nothing by Phoebe Gilman

Book Selection 39: Sign with your Baby by Dr. Joseph Garcia

Book Selection 40: Sulwe by Lupita Nyong'o

Book Selection 41: My Friend and I by Lisa Jahn-Clough

Book Selection 42: I'm Jay, Let's Play by Beth Reichmuth

Book Selection 43: Ordinary Mary's Extraordinary Deed by Emily Pearson

Book Selection 44: Be Kind by Pat Zietlow Miller

Book Selection 45: Sidewalk Flowers by JonArno Lawson & Sydney Smith

Book Selection 46: Mindful Day by Deborah Hopkinson

Book Selection 47: Hats I am by Shima Shanti

Book Selection 48: Something Beautiful by Sharon Dennis Wyeth

Book Selection 49: A Chair For My Mother by Vera B. Williams

Book Selection 50: Just Ask by Sonia Sotomayor

Book Selection 51: Happy in Our Skin by Fran Manushkin

Book Selection 52: A Place to Stay by Erin Gunti