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NOTE: Sometimes you can find USED copies of my books at www.abebooks.com, if the price for the new one is too high. I have also found some used copies of "The Sun's Not Broken," and will gladly sell them to you at $15 plus the usual postage/handling.

Books I have Written
Also visit, Articles and Reviews for more material that I have written

The Sun's Not Broken, A Cloud's Just in the Way: On Child-Centered Teaching  

$25

I wrote this book to say everything young children had taught me. It is full of stories about children who taught me how to be a good teacher for them. The chapters are short, the theory is sound, and people like the book. It has stayed popular for 21 years now. 

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

$14.95

This book, about Sylvia Ashton-Warner's ideas and how they informed mine, continues to go back to teaching experience and how we can learn from it. The chapters are somewhat longer, the theory more developed. I wrote it because I had to ... I couldn't explain myself and why I teach the way I do without explaining Sylvia. It has two chapters on discipline and two on stories ... where they come from and their use in teaching. The work I did around Sylvia's ideas, and those of Vivian Gussin Paley, briefly discussed in this book, led me directly to the Reggio Emilia work I now do.

Centering on the Children

$5.95

I wrote this to be notes to a seminar I gave in 1986.  It' doesn't have the coherence of a book, but rather it is a collection of useful short articles . . . about how to help a child when his/her parents divorce or when someone dies; about holidays; about what how to say things that convey concern and respect to children, about celebrating with children.

Books By Other Authors

The Grammar of Fantasy
An Introduction to the Art of Inventing Stories
by Gianni Rodari

I no longer stock this book, but you can find it at this link:
http://www.twc.org/pubs/education.php?ID=03c6d#148

In 1971 Gianni Rodari gave a series of lectures in Reggio Emilia, which were made into a book, The Grammar of Fantasy. This book was very popular from the outset, translated into several European languages, and in 1996 Jack Zipes, the American expert on fairy tales, translated it into English. This book enables such a wonderful piece of curriculum -- preliterate as well as older children making up fantasy stories which delight -- that we all need to have easy access to it.

I often have copies of Ashton-Warner's books for sale, usually for $15-35. You can write to me at sydney@eceteacher.org to find out if I have a book you want ... and at what price.

E-mail:  sydney@eceteacher.org, www.eceteacher.org • (C) Copyright Sydney Gurewitz Clemens, 2007