Bibliography
Pay Attention to the Children:
Lessons for Teachers and Parents from Sylvia Ashton-Warner

You can buy my books and Sylvia Ashton-Warner's (when I have them) from My Bookstore.

NOTE: I have given the first United States publication date for Sylvia's books in this listing. The English publication date is listed in brackets { }, and New Zealand date in square brackets [ ].

Ashton-Warner, Sylvia 

Bell Call, NY, Simon and Schuster, 1964 {1971}

Greenstone, NY, Simon and Schuster, 1966 {1967}.

I Passed This Way, NY, Knopf, 1979 {1979} [1979].

Incense to Idols, NY, Simon and Schuster, 1960 {1960}.

Myself, NY Simon and Schuster, 1967 {1969}.

O Children of the World..., Vancouver, B.C., Canada, The First Person Press, 1974.

Spearpoint, NY, Knopf, 1972.

Spinster, NY, Simon and Schuster, 1959 {1958} [distributed by Heinemann].

Stories from the River, Auckland, New Zealand: Hodder and Stoughton, [1986].

Teacher, NY, Simon and Schuster, 1963. Three, NY, Knopf, 1970.

Barrington and Beaglehole. Maori Schools in a Changing Society, Wellington, New Zealand Center for Educational Research, 1974.

Bateson, Mary Catherine. Composing a Life, NY, Penguin, 1989.

Belenky, Mary F., Blythe McVicker Clinchy, Nancy Rule Goldberger, Jill Mattuck Tarule. Women's Ways of Knowing, NY, Basic Books, 1986.

Berry, Patricia. Echo's Subtle Body, NY, Spring Publications, 1982.

Brown, Cynthia. Literacy in 30 Hours, Appendix to Shor, Ira, Freire for the Classroom: A Sourcebook for Liberatory Teaching, Portsmouth, NH, Heinemann, 1987.

Clemens, Sydney Gurewitz. The Sun's Not Broken, A Cloud's Just in the Way: On Child-Centered Teaching, Gryphon House, Inc., 1984

Coles, Robert. Call of Stories: Teaching & Moral Imagination, NY, Houghton Mifflin, 1989

Correas de Zapata, Celia, ed. Short Stories by Latin American Women: The Magic and the Real, Arte Publico Press, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-2090, 1990.

Dewey, John. Democracy and Education, NY, Macmillan, 1917.

Donmoyer, Robert. The Politics of Play: Ideological & Organizational Constraints on the Inclusion of Play Experiences in the School Curriculum, Journal of Research & Development in Education, Volume 14, Number 3, 1981.

Dreikurs, Rudolf and V. Soltz. Children: The Challenge, NY, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1964.

Edwards, Carolyn, Lella Gandini and George Forman. The Hundred Languages of Children, Norwood, NJ, Ablex, 1993. [1998. Ablex is now in Greenwich, CT. Get the second ed.]

Egan, Kieran. Teaching as Story Telling, University of Chicago Press, 1986.

Elkind, David. The Hurried Child. Reading, MA, Addison Wesley, 1981.

Fillmer, H. Thompson and Bill Cole Cliett. Nurturing Your Child's Literacy, Gainesville, FL, Maupin House, 1992.

Gilbert, Sandra and Susan Gubar. Sexual Linguistics: Gender, Language, Sexuality, in New Literary History, Vol 16, Spring 1985.

Godden, Rumer. A Candle for St. Jude, London, Macmillan, 1973.

Goodman, Paul. Compulsory Miseducation, NY, Vintage, 1964.

Grace, Patricia. Electric City, Auckland, NZ, Penguin, 1989.

Greenberg, Polly. The Devil Has Slippery Shoes: A Biased Biography of the Mississippi Child Development Group, Youth Policy Group, P.O. B. 40132, Wash., DC 20016, 1990.

Hart, J. Learning to Read With Key-Words in Teaching K-8 August- September, 1987.

Herndon, James. The Way It Spozed to Be. NY, Bantam, 1968.

Hillman, James. Healing Fiction, Barrytown, NY, Stanton Hill, 1983.

Hinewirangi. Kanohi ki te kanohi [Face to Face], Wellington, NZ, Moana Press, 1990.

Holt, John. How Children Fail, NY, Pitman, 1964.

Hood, Lynley. Sylvia! The Biography of Sylvia Ashton-Warner, NZ, Viking Penguin, 1988.

Hood, Lynley. Who is Sylvia? The Diary of a Biography, Dunedin, NZ, John McIndoe, 1990.

Houston, Jean. The Possible Human: A Course in Extending Your Physical, Mental, and Creative Abilities, Los Angeles, CA, Jeremy P. Tarcher (distributed by Houghton Mifflin Co.), 1982.

Houston, Jean. The Search for the Beloved, Los Angeles, CA, Jeremy P. Tarcher (distributed by St. Martin's Press), 1987.

John-Steiner, Vera. Notebooks of the Mind, University of New Mexico Press, 1985.

Johnson, Katie. Doing Words: Using the Creative Power of Children's Personal Images to Teach Reading and Writing, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1987.

Jones, Elizabeth & Gretchen Reynolds. The Play's the Thing, NY, Teachers College Press, 1992.

Jong, Erika. Fear of Flying, NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973.

Katz, Lilian and Bernard Cesarone, eds. Reflections on the Reggio Emilia Approach,Urbana, IL, ERIC, 1994.

Kazantzakis, Nikos. Zorba the Greek, NY, Simon and Schuster, 1952.

Kohl, Herbert. The Open Classroom: A Practical Guide to a New Way of Teaching, NY Review Books (distributed by Vintage), 1969.

Kohl, Herbert. 36 Children, NY, Signet, 1967.

Kohn, Alfie. No Contest: The Case Against Competition, Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co. 1992.

Kohn, Alfie. Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes, Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992.

Kohn, Alfie. "Caring Kids," in Phi Delta Kappan, March, 1991.

Kohn, Alfie. "Choices for Children," in Phi Delta Kappan, September, 1993.

Kozol, Jonathan. Death at an Early Age, NY, Bantam, 1968.

Kozol, Jonathan. Free Schools, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1972.

Kozol, Jonathan. On Being a Teacher, NY, Continuum, 1981.

Lewis, Hilda P. Child Art: The Beginnings of Self-Affirmation, P.O. Box 7084, Berkeley, CA 94717, Diablo Press, 1966.

Llosa, Mario Vargas. "Is Fiction the Art of Lying?" New York Times Book Review,
October 7, 1984.

Marshall, Sybil. Adventures in Creative Education, Oxford, England, Pergamon Press, 1968.

Marshall, Sybil. An Experiment in Education, Cambridge University Press, 1968.

Martin, Jane Roland. The Schoolhome: Rethinking Schools for Changing Families, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1992.

Metge, Joan. The Maoris of New Zealand: Rautahi, Routledge and KeganPaul, 1946.

Metge, Joan and Patricia Kinloch. Talking Past Each Other!  Problems of Cross-Cultural Communication, New Zealand, Victoria University Press, 1984.

Moore, H. "A Tribute" in Herbert Read: A Memorial Symposium, R. Skelton, ed. London, Methuen, 1979.

Morrison, Toni. "The Site of Memory," in Zinsser, William, ed. Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1987.

Neill, A.S. Summerhill, NY, Hart, 1960.

Nicholls, John. Education as Adventure, NY, Teachers College Press, 1993.

O'Donnell , Mabel and Rona Munro. The Janet and John Whole Word Course (A series of basal readers), London, James Nisbet, 1949.

Paley, Vivian Gussin. The Boy Who Would Be a Helicopter, Harvard University Press, 1990.

Paley, Vivian Gussin. Wally's Stories, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1981.

Paley, Vivian Gussin. You Can't Say You Can't Play, Harvard University Press, 1992.

Pere, Rangimarie. AKO: Concepts & Learning in the Maori Tradition, Hamilton, NZ, Department of Sociology, University of Waikato, 1982.

Plowden, Lady Bridget, chair, Central Advisory Council for Education. Children and their Primary Schools, London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1967.

Pogrebin, Lettie Cottin. Growing Up Free: Raising Your Child in the '80s, NY, Bantam, 1981.

Raths, Louis, Selma Wassermann, Arthur Jonas and Arnold Rothstein. Teaching for Thinking: Theory, Strategies & Activities for the Classroom, NY, Teachers College Press, 1986.

Read, Herbert. Education for Peace, NY, Scribners, 1949.

Read, Herbert. Education Through Art, (1943), NY, Pantheon Books, (reprint) 1958.

Read, Herbert. The Meaning of Art, London, Faber and Faber, 1931.

Reggio Emilia [City of]. I Cento Linguaggi dei Bambini: (The Hundred Languages of Children), catalog of museum exhibit, c.1986. [get 2nd edition; it's much better!  SGC 1998]

Rich, Adrienne. "I Dream I'm the Death of Orpheus" in Poems, Selected and New,1950-1974, NY, W.W. Norton, 1975.

Richardson, Elwyn S. In The Early World, NY, Pantheon, 1964.

Rotzel, Grace. The School in Rose Valley, NY, Ballantine, 1972.

Schaef, Anne Wilson. When Society Becomes an Addict, NY, Harper and Row, 1987.

Sendak, Maurice. Where The Wild Things Are, NY, Harper and Row, 1963.

Smith, Sidonie. A Poetics of Women's Autobiography: Marginality and the Fictions of Self-Representation, Indiana University Press, 1987.

Spock, Benjamin. Baby and Child Care, NY, Pocket Cardinal (1967 version), 1967.

Steptoe, John. Daddy Is a Monster Sometimes, NY, Harper Trophy, 1980.

Taylor, Judy, ed. 'So I Shall Tell You a Story'...Encounters with Beatrix Potter, NY, Penguin, 1993.

Veatch, Jeannette et al. Key Words to Reading: The Language Experience Approach Begins (Second Edition), Columbus, OH, Charles E. Merrill, 1979.

Veatch, Jeannette "Whole Language as I See It," in Goodman, et al. The Whole Language Catalog, Santa Rosa, CA, American School Publishers, 1991.

Vygotsky, Lev. Thought and Language, ed. G. Vakar, trans. E. Hanfmann. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1962.

Walker, Alice. Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning, NY Dial Press, 1979.

Wassermann, Selma. Serious Players in the Primary Classroom, NY, Teachers College Press, 1990

Wells, Rosemary. Noisy Nora, NY, Dial Pied Piper, 1973.

Witherell, Carol and Nel Noddings. Stories Lives Tell: Narrative and Dialogue in Education, NY, Teachers College Press, 1991.

Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own, NY, Harcourt, Brace and World, 1929.

Woolf, Virginia. Three Guineas, NY, Harcourt, Brace and World, 1938.

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