By Lella Gandini

As the authors state in their opening chapter, "prepare to be amazed." This beautiful book describes the revolution that the Reggio Emilia Atelier (studio) brought to the education of young children in Italy, and follows that revolution across the ocean to North America. It explores how the experiences of children interacting with rich materials in the atelier affect an entire school's approach to the construction and expression of thought and learning.

By Ann Lewin-Benham

Possible Schools tells the compelling story of the Model Early Learning Center (MELC) in Washington, DC - the only school in a U.S. urban area to successfully implement the principles of the Municipal Preschools of Reggio Emilia. The author describes the origin of this school, which served impoverished urban families, and traces its evolution from a chaotic inception to its ability to apply Reggio practices.

By Vea Vecchi and Claudia Giudici, Editors

This catalogue is offers a "guided tour" of the exhibit entitled "The Expressive Languages of Children, the Artistic Language of Alberto Burri," which was held in Reggio Emilia in 2001 and included works by children ranging in age from the infant-toddler center to the elementary school. Along with texts of the exhibit, this catalogue includes a number of essays discussing the relationship between Reggio Emilia schools and the city, children and art, and pedagogy and the atelier.

By Louise Boyd Cadwell

Bringing Reggio Emilia Home is the first book to integrate the experiences of one American teacher on a year-long internship in the preschools of Reggio, with a four-year adaptation effort in one American school. The lively text includes many "mini-stories" of preschool and kindergarten-age children, teachers, and parents who embark on journeys of learning together. These journeys take shape in language, in drawings, in tempera paint and clay, in outdoor excursions and in the imaginations of both the children and adults. This informative and accessible work features photographs of the children (both in Italy and the United States) and samples of the children's work, including some of full color.

By Judy Harris Helm, Sallee Beneke, and Kathy Steinheimer

The authors developed an approach to thinking and communicating about documentation and then explored documentation and its use in a number of early childhood programs, including the schools of Reggio Emilia. The result is a framework, collection system, and display method that works in American schools. Incorporating knowledge and skills gained from using a valid and reliable authentic assessment system - Work Sampling - Windows on Learning shows a variety of ways to document; how to collect, analyze, and display children's work; how to develop individualized portfolios; and how to meet the demands for accountability prevalent in U.S. schools. Methods are applicable to many different curriculum models, including thematic teaching and the project approach. This complete guide to documentation features extensive examples of children's and teachers' work, including many photographs.

By William A. Corsaro and Luisa Molinari

What happens when children in creative, Reggio-like preschools go to a more traditional elementary school? In this book, William Corsaro and his Italian co-author, Luisa Molinari, tell a complete and important story about the lives of children as they grow from young preschoolers to preadolescents in Modena, Italy. The authors both fully explore and participate in the rich, complex history and development of the Italian early education system.

By Louise Boyd Cadwell

Building on her enormously popular book, Bringing Reggio Emilia Home, Louise Cadwell helps American educators understand what it means to use ideas from the Reggio Approach in their classrooms. In new and dynamic ways, Cadwell once again takes readers inside the day-to-day practice of a group of early childhood educators. This time she describes the growth and evolution of the work in the St. Louis Reggio Collaborative over the past 10 years.

By Lella Gandini and Carolyn Pope Edwards, Editors

This volume is a timely contribution to the burgeoning dialogue on the Reggio Emilia approach, and features the work of prominent scholars, policy-makers, researchers, administrators, and practicing teachers who have created and directed the infant-toddler care systems in four cities in Italy. Joined by American educators and researchers (including Ron Lally, Rebecca New, and Jeanne Goldhaber), their work builds upon and extends inclusionary and family-centered philosophies. It combines missions of care and education, and produces innovations in space and environments. This collection is filled with dozens of examples of experiences with dynamic, open systems of organization that support emotional and cognitive development of infants and toddlers - and respect the delicate relationship between parents and their young.

By Kathleen Bailer

This DVD demonstrates how working with natural clay benefits the emotional, creative, intellectual and physical development of young children. This enlightening and captivating documentary reveals the value of natural clay as a material through which toddlers, preschool, kindergarten and special education children can explore their own creativity, focus their energy, shape their ideas and express their emotions. Through the lens of early childhood experts, the film presents current research on child development and includes fascinating information about clay as a curricular tool, creative material and therapeutic medium. Detailed observations of children and teachers working, problem solving, learning and having fun provide both information and inspiration. Each viewing will offer fresh insights into the importance of clay in a child's life.

By David Burton

Exhibition is a vital component of art education, yet most teachers have no formal training or expertise in designing and producing art exhibits. In this book, David Burton offers a comprehensive, hands-on approach with an emphasis on engaging students to develop, implement, and evaluate their artwork. He breaks down the exhibition process into five major steps: theme development, exhibition design, exhibition installation, publicity, and receptions. Each step is exemplified with cases based on actual teacher experiences.

By Reggio Children

REMIDA, the creative recycling center of Reggio Emilia schools, promotes the idea that waste materials can be resources. The center collects, displays, and offers alternative and reclaimed materials with the aim to reinvent their use and meaning. REMIDA Days are special days of celebration that take place during the month of May and involve the participation of thousands of people, offering them the opportunity to reflect on the issues of environmental impact and sustainable development, as well as how ideas and projects in schools can be renewed and nurtured by the relationship between economic thinking and creative thinking. This book offers a beautiful pictorial tour of the amazing experience of Reggio Emilia's REMIDA Days from 2000 to 2003.

Exploring materials is an evocative experience. It stimulates the imagination, inspires storytelling and interactions between children, and serves as a bridge to drawing, collage, sculpture, and construction. But how much exploration should you allow? How should you guide it? Where will it take you and the children you teach? How can you build upon your discoveries? Share the journey of real teachers in a real school who were inspired by educators from Reggio Emilia, Italy. They observed and recorded what happens when the focus is on process rather than product. In Beautiful Stuff!, you'll find ideas and suggestions, delights and revelations, doubts, joys, and continual insights. Above all, you'll find approaches to nurturing the innate creativity of children that you can adapt to any teaching situation.

By Ursula Kolbe

Rapunzel's Supermarket: All about Young Children and Their Art shows young children as imaginative thinkers and explorers - artists as much as scientists - in a joyful quest to understand their world. A mix of inspiration and practical advice, this book offers you many ideas for helping children to realize their potential.