Books for Families

NAEYC's publications are great resources for learning more about the care and education of young children. Listed below are just a few resources we think you'll enjoy. To view a full listing of NAEYC's publications, visit our online catalog.

Remote Control Childhood? Combating the Hazards of Media Culture
Diane E. Levin, Order #326

New technologies offer exciting learning opportunities for children. But teachers and parents also see a troubling downside of today's media culture: the heavy doses of violence, stereotypes, commercialism, and no-brain entertainment that bombard our children. Powerfully and accessibly written, Remote Control Childhood? Combating the Hazards of Media Culture by Diane E. Levin provides effective strategies we can all use to minimize media culture's harmful effects and to reshape the media environment that children grow up in.

This book speaks to parents who are relieved to meet a deeply knowledgeable expert who insists that parents should not bear the entire burden for dealing with out-of-control media. In this book, they find a wide range of practical strategies for supporting their own children's development and helping to reshape the media environment that virtually all American children grow up in.

Learning to Read and Write: Developmentally Appropriate Practices for Young Children
Susan Neuman, Carol Copple, Sue Bredekamp, Order # 161

Developmentally appropriate, research-based strategies for promoting children's literacy learning in preschool, kindergarten, and elementary classrooms and infant/toddler settings. A strong, coherent framework for effective practice appears in NAEYC's joint position statement with the International Reading Association, which is supported by many other organizations and reprinted in this book. Alive with classroom photos and children's work, the book offers crystal-clear guidance and exciting ideas for teachers to help young children on the road to reading and writing competence.

Off to School: A Parent's-Eye View of the Kindergarten Year
Irene Hannigan, Order #339

This book is the personal and authentic account of what lies ahead for both child and parent headed off to school for the first time. It presents a lively, developmentally appropriate kindergarten classroom. Irene Hannigan uses her journal as a means to chronicle the hopes, challenges, fears, and joys both she and her son experienced during that first year. In addition, she includes the kindergarten teacher's messages creating a collection of memories the likes of which no photograph could achieve. Experience the vital connection between parents and teachers beyond the kindergarten classroom door; you may see some of your own reactions and anxieties reflected here!

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