Featherstone Catalogue 2015

FEATHERSTONE 2015

Books for practitioners working with children aged 0-7

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Welcome Welcome to the 2015 Featherstone Education catalogue. We’ve been working hard again this year to bring you even more titles to support your teaching, whatever early years setting you work in.

We are proud to continue to work with some of the leading early years experts. Some of our highlights for the year include Alistair Bryce-Clegg’s Guide to the Early Years (p.29), packed with original, creative ideas to ensure your practice reaches outstanding!

He’s also written a follow up to his bestselling Continuous Provision title, Continuous Provision: The Skills – a practical guide to differentiated skill development (p.27).

There is an exciting new addition to the popular 100 Ideas range, 100 Ideas for Early Years Practitioners: Outdoor Play (p.29), with ideas for any outdoor space and every type of weather!

Finally there is the new Time to series (p.25), with three new books (Move, Communicate and Socialise) aiming to aid planning and assessment in key areas of the EYFS in busy settings.

We hope you enjoy discovering these and all the other fantastic new titles. Have a great year of teaching!

Emily and the Education Team

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Founded in 1997 by husband and wife team Phill and Sally Featherstone, Featherstone is the market-leader in books for teachers and educators of 0-7 year-olds. It has won numerous awards for its publishing, including the Education Publisher of the Year award from the Independent Publisher’s Guild. Featherstone became an imprint of A&C Black in 2008 and Sally continues to be involved as consultant and author.

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Rights Information:

Unless stated, all titles have world rights. Any countries excluded are shown in brackets e.g. World (Australia/New Zealand).

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Contents Key Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-12 Little Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6 Baby & Beyond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

50 Fantastic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-11 Including Children with . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Key Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Transition into KS1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Learning & Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-21 Communication & Language. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-15

PSHE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-17 Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Literacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Understanding the World. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Outdoor Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Professional Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22-23 Observation, Assessment & Planning . . . . . . . . . . 24-25 Practitioner’s Guides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-29 Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30-31

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Little Books with BIG Ideas Little Books are packed with advice and ideas for everybody working with children in the Early Years Foundation Stage. All the activities are carefully planned to meet the objectives for each stage of development, particularly between 36 and 60+ months, and reflect the latest thinking on the education of young children. Little Books make an excellent start to an exciting journey through learning!

“The books are excellent value and provide a wealth of ideas.”

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Paperback • 210 x 148mm • £8.99

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The Little Book of Measures

The Little Book of Music and Movement

Designed to improve the confidence of both practitioners and children, this book focuses on using everyday objects with a clear emphasis on the use of non-standard measures as well as standard measures in meaningful contexts. Activities include measuring ‘giant’s strides’, finding height in handprints, and using trundle wheels, metre rules, sand timers, stop watches, balances and scales.

Explore the world of music through classical, pop, jazz, world and traditional genres. This book is packed full of information and resources for using music to enrich the learning environment as well as ideas for movement and expressive arts. All music is easily available via YouTube and other internet sources.

Carole Skinner and Judith Dancer

JANUARY 2015 • 72pp • 9781472911551

Judith Harries

MARCH 2015 • 88pp • 9781472912725

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The Little Book of Shape and Space

The Little Book of Team Games

The Little Book of Numbers

Building on children’s natural enthusiasm and curiosity, the activities in this book cover both 2D and 3D objects. They will inspire children to explore the spaces, shapes and patterns around them in both indoor and outdoor play.

Children in early years settings are faced with huge challenges regarding socialisation, sharing and growing in responsibility, and this book provides excellent opportunities for them and their carers to address these issues through team play. Enhance every aspect of learning through chasing, catching, seeking, racing, daring, guessing, acting and pretending!

Practitioners across settings and schools will find a huge number of hands-on learning experiences in this book to explore fun and exciting everyday situations and number problems. Guaranteed to inspire confidence with numbers in both adults and children.

Carole Skinner and Judith Dancer

MAY 2015 • 64pp • 9781472912701

Simon MacDonald

Carole Skinner and Judith Dancer

NOVEMBER 2015 • 64pp • 9781472912718

AUGUST 2015 • 72pp • 9781472916822

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Circle Time

Dance

Dance Music CD

Dens

Discovery Bottles

Dough

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Drama and Performance

Explorations

Free and Found

Fun on a Shoestring

Gross Motor Skills

Investigations

Junk Music

Light and Shadow

Mark Making

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Little Books with BIG Ideas

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Playground Games

Print Making

Rhythm and Raps

Messy Play

Multi-sensory Stories

Phonics

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Prop Boxes for Role Play

Props for Writing

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Puppets in Stories

Role Play Windows

Sand and Water

Small World Play

Story Bags

Storybuilding

Storytelling

Traditional Tales

Treasure Baskets

Tuff Spot Activities

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Writing

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• See page 21 for Outdoor themed Little Books

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Baby & Beyond Continuity and Progression through the EYFS

The Baby & Beyond series takes simple activities or resources and shows how they can be used with children at each of the EYFS development stages, from birth to 60+ months. Each easy-to-read double page spread covers one activity, so you can see progression at a glance. All titles shown have been updated to match the new framework.

Paperback • 40pp • 210 x 210mm • £4.99

Mark Making

Sound and Music

Dens and Shelters

Tell Me a Story

Enhance independence and involvement in communication through meaningful marks.

Encourage and develop responses to sounds – a key part of music making.

Involve children in active learning and critical thinking as they work together.

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Going Out

Movement and Beat

Sixteen ideas for simple excursions and outdoor activities.

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Ideas for developing muscle control and the understanding of a steady beat.

Finger Play and Rhymes

The Natural World

Counting

Sensory World

About Me

Small World Play

Construction

Messy Play

Food and Cooking

Dolls and Soft Toys

Bikes, Prams and Pushchairs

Role Play

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By Sally Featherstone

Build progression into a favourite part of the day for all children.

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A Grandparent’s Survival Guide to Child-Care Dr. Lis Paice and Sheila Marlin

This down-to-earth guide provides the answers to all the burning questions grandparents have. How much childcare can I realistically take on? How can I get up to date with new theories? What equipment will I need and who should pay for it? Written by a doctor and Montessori teacher, it covers everything from structuring a child’s day (and ideas for outings) to coping with mealtimes and the odd emergency!

Paperback • 210 x 148mm • 104pp 9781408193457 • £9.99

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50 Fantastic...

The 50 Fantastic series is a no-nonsense ideas bank, no frills, just 50 examples of great ideas already in practice! Ideal for the busy practitioner, they offer a ‘dip in’ approach to accessing activities that you may not have thought of. Simple and inspiring to reignite enthusiasm.

Paperback • 64pp • 245 x 170mm • £9.99

50 Fantastic Ideas to Captivate Boys

Sally and Phill Featherstone

Make the most of the different ways boys learn with ideas for early writing, mathematics and reading as well as technology, science and role-play.

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50 Fantastic Ideas for Imaginative Thinking

50 Fantastic Ideas for Found Materials

Encourage children to use their imagination and act autonomously with open-ended learning opportunities to get them talking and thinking.

Ideas for using free, cheap and recycled materials for creative and independent play and specific projects. Encourage children’s love of constructing models and other objects.

Marianne Sargent

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From 50 Fantastic Ideas to Captivate Boys

50 Fantastic Ideas for Exploring Emotions

50 Fantastic Ideas for Promoting Independence

50 Fantastic Ideas for Sharing & Playing

50 Fantastic Ideas for Involving Parents

Help children understand, explore and manage their emotions and those of others through discussion, observation, stories, songs and movement.

The more opportunities children have to be independent, the more their self-confidence will grow and the more success they will enjoy.

Activity ideas for both indoors and outdoors, helping children to share their thoughts, conversations and belongings through play.

Find ideas to help understand parents’ needs, develop roles that benefit parents and school and relate positively with all parents – even the ‘hard-to-reach.’

Sally and Phill Featherstone

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Alistair Bryce-Clegg

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Paperback • 64pp • 245 x 170mm • £9.99

“Any learning environment, home, classroom, nursery or staff room would be all the richer for having a set of these books on their shelves for reference.”

– Early Years Educator Magazine

From 50 Fantastic Ideas for Teaching Phonics

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50 Fantastic Ideas for Teaching Phonics Alistair Bryce-Clegg

Essential knowledge for developing successful writers and readers with simple, innovative ideas to make a complex area easier to teach.

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Early Writing Prompts Alistair Bryce-Clegg

A collection of all of Alistair’s favourite ideas and inspirations that have motivated the children he works with to pick up their pencils and get scribbling!

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NEW Mark Making

Alistair Bryce-Clegg

By collecting together a whole host of ideas for different mark-making utensils, as well as exploring numerous substances and surfaces that children can mark-make on and in, this book supports both individual and group mark-making.

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50 Fantastic ...

Paperback • 64pp • 245 x 170mm • £9.99

“The fresh ideas which the authors have come up with for this series are super - it really is a series which should be in every Early Years setting, ready to be picked up when inspiration fails.” www.parentsintouch.co.uk

“These books suggest 50 whopping ways to have fun and bond with your child.”

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50 Fantastic Things to do with a Water Tray

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50 Fantastic Things to do with Paint

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50 Fantastic Things to do with 4-5 Year Olds

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50 Fantastic Ideas for Maths Outdoors

50 Fantastic Ideas for Science Outdoors

50 Fantastic Ideas for Physical Activity Outdoors

50 Fantastic Ideas for Creativity Outdoors

Offering ways to develop existing provision as well as building new resources to enjoy exploring all areas of early maths including number, pattern, shape and measuring.

Discover how early science is a truly multisensory exploration of the world with the weather and nature enhancing every learning experience.

It’s time to get moving with these ideas to use with children at different stages of their physical development. Encourage children’s inquisitive nature to reach, stretch, poke and grab!

Creativity is about taking risks and making connections and is strongly linked to play. These inspiring ideas will get both children and practitioners enhancing creativity throughout the setting.

Kirstine Beeley

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50 Fantastic Ideas for Rain, Wind and Snow

50 Fantastic Ideas for Celebrations and Festivals

50 Fantastic Ideas for Outside All Year Round

50 Fantastic Ideas for Seasons

New ideas and old favourites using easy to find resources to help ease the pressure of planning and preparing in advance for unpredictable weather.

Activities linked to popular festivals and celebrations from around the world such as Christmas, Easter, Eid and Chinese New Year.

Whether your setting’s outdoor space is a back garden, a small yard or large playground there are activities here to develop different skills and fit the environment.

Explore and reinforce key learning around each season. Activities are linked to specific seasons but the concepts and skills are transferable to any topic.

Sally and Phill Featherstone

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Special Educational Needs Including Children with...

Schools and settings are encouraged in DfES guidance to ‘personalise learning for children with SEN or disabilities by making education more innovative and responsive to the diverse needs of children’. These books will help you plan and provide an effective curriculum for children with a range of additional needs, to ensure that no one misses out.

Paperback • 297 x 210mm • £16.99

Speech and Language Delay Aderinola Hotonu, Antonia Aldous and Ranel Schafer-Dreyer 80pp • 9781408114506

Autistic Spectrum Disorders

Asperger’s Syndrome

Cerebral Palsy

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Clare Beswick

Visual Difficulties 64pp • 9781408114490

Working with Parents 64pp • 9781408112533

Early Signs of Dyslexia

Clare Beswick

Lindsay Brewis

Attention and Behaviour Difficulties

Dyspraxia

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Down’s Syndrome

Teaching Young Children with Autism

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Words Get Knotted

Square Peg in a Round Hole

A beautifully designed book to help children’s understanding of dyslexia and provide a way of sharing with friends and family.

This practical easy-to-use guide identifies the barriers that children with a wide range of different additional needs experience in school.

It provides case studies of each of the major conditions, describes the behaviour of the child involved and the process of diagnosis, concluding with practical strategies on how to help these children become successful learners.

Gavin Reid

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NOVEMBER 2015 •128pp 9781408193686 • £14.99

Pippa Sweeney

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Linda Tallent and Jean Thompson

100 Ideas for Primary Teachers: Dyslexia A practical guide offering strategies for supporting children with dyslexia, updated with the latest research and best practice. It also includes a new section on differentiation in the classroom. Topics include emotional literacy, peer support, transition, phonic skills and exam preparation.

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Transition NEW EDITION

Smooth Transitions

Transition in the Early Years

For a child, moving from the Early Years Foundation Stage to Key Stage 1 can be a huge change. This new edition contains advice for teachers, teaching assistants, practitioners, parents and managers on supporting children through and after the move. It covers how we can use new knowledge about how children learn to help them build on their previous experiences of learning and what we can do to help them cope with the emotional factors involved.

A well-considered combination of explaining the theory behind transition across the early years and how to put this into practice – what it is, why it’s important and how to make it effective.

Terry Gould

Ros Bayley and Sally Featherstone

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Carrying on in Key Stage 1

By Ros Bayley, Lynn Broadbent and Sally Featherstone

Continue key practical activities and child-focused learning throughout Key Stage 1 with activities mapped onto the National Curriculum. Each is illustrated with photos and diagrams to help give confidence with suggestions for topic-based work.

Paperback • 48pp • Full colour photos & illustrations • 210 x 297mm £16.99

Outdoor Play

Construction

Role Play

Explore different outdoor spaces and resources to use in them. Activities include play, games, plants and animals, mark making and den building.

A host of ideas for using everyday materials such as paper and wood, along with purpose-designed construction materials.

Using both traditional and more unusual themes for child-focused role-play suitable for all levels and abilities.

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Water

Sculpting, Stuffing and Squeezing

Sand

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Key Issues The Key Issues series is written by experts, addressing some of the major challenges facing Early Years settings and Primary Schools. The titles aim to provide sound, clear advice, to help practitioners and teachers deliver the objectives of the Every Child Matters Report.

Paperback • 210 x 210mm • £12.99

Assessment for Learning in the Foundation Stage Marianne Sargent

A practical explanation of what assessment for learning entails and how it can be successfully implemented.

Young Boys and Their Writing Sally Featherstone and Jenni Clarke

A variety of interesting activities to facilitate boys engaging with the writing process.

Sustaining Shared Thinking

Problem Solving

A combination of practical experience, research and government guidance on thinking skills brought to life with examples and suggestions.

Helps support you in developing young children’s problem solving skills through every day activities.

With links to the new curriculum.

Jenni Clarke

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Boys and Girls Come Out to Play

Stimulating Creativity and Enquiry

Working with Parents

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Margaret Martin

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Philosophy for Children 96pp • 9781906029210

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LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT

Communication and Language A Place to Talk

By Elizabeth Jarman

In her exciting series, Elizabeth Jarman combines theory with lots of practical ideas to show how any learning environment can support the development of speaking and listening. Descriptions and photographs bring the ideas to life, showing how to create and use the particular area.

Wherever you teach, this series will ensure children are encouraged to talk from an early age to avoid communication and behaviour problems at a later stage.

Paperback • 40pp • 225 x 158mm • £8.99 From A Place to Talk for Babies

At My Child-minder’s

For Babies

For Two Year Olds

For Boys

Outside

Focusing on early brain development and direct interaction for babies, this book has ideas for all early years environments and budgets.

Explore the potential of the learning environment to create areas that trigger speaking and listening skills, emotional well-being and physical development.

Considers the significant role the physical environment can play in supporting boys’ speaking and listening skills.

Children love outside spaces! Be inspired to ensure they help children develop language skills.

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Children’s Centres

Pack-Away Settings

Pre-Schools

In KS1

At Home

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Sounds Fun

By Sally Featherstone and Su Wall

It is well known that communication skills are at the heart of all learning and development, and vital for children’s confidence.

This unique series will help practitioners teach these skills, starting with sounds and leading on to words, talking and reading.

Paperback • 80pp • 246 x 170mm • £9.99

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Flexible spaces that are easy to set up and store away, recognising the needs of children throughout the day.

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“A super series...that will empower even the least confident and inexperienced practitioners to become enthused and capable of supporting the youngest of children in developing key early emergent communication skills.”

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“A thoughtprovoking book which will lead to plenty of discussion in Early Years settings.”

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Get Them Talking – Get Them Learning

Get Them Talking – Get Them Writing

Practical advice using current practice to help provide learning opportunities and experiences for children to fill their heads with thoughts and questions and support them in developing language skills and communication.

Understand the development stages of becoming a mark maker and use tried and tested activities and interventions to see a significant difference in progress for boys and girls.

Alistair Bryce-Clegg

Paperback • 64pp • 297 x 210mm • £17.99 • 9781408163931

Alistair Bryce-Clegg

LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT

Communication and Language

Paperback • 64pp • 297 x 210mm • £17.99 • 9781408163924

Teaching Speaking and Listening

Ann Locke with Don Locke

Designed for non-specialists, this invaluable resource offers a systematic yet flexible approach for teaching spoken language.

It targets essential skills for children – conversation; listening; narrative; discussion – and supports differentiated teaching. It includes realistic objectives and activity suggestions and is ideal for use with other programmes and existing resources. Online resources are available, including a training pack.

Paperback • 200pp • 297 x 210mm 9781441139801 • £34.99

Teaching Children to Listen

Liz Spooner and Jacqui Woodcock Increasing numbers of children find it a challenge to stay focused on a task and follow even simple instructions in the classroom.

This whole-school approach includes: •

The Listening Skills Rating Scale

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Advice on individual education plans that focus on a specific area of difficulty

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40 tried and tested activities, including games, to target wholeclass listening and exercises

Paperback • 297 x 210mm • 120pp 9781408193617 • £19.99

EAL in the Early Years Anita Soni

Practical suggestions and guidance on supporting young children and managing the key difficulties. Includes case studies of EAL children showing how their needs have been met and a tool for selfreflection and evaluation.

Paperback 88pp • 297 x 210mm 9781408159873 • £18.99

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LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT

Personal, Social and Emotional Development A&C Black: Good Behaviour

Developing good relationships with others is a key part of the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework for all children.

Simple words and colourful illustrations help guide children to choose peaceful, positive behaviour. Each book includes a page of advice for parents and carers.

Hardback • 24pp • Colour illustrations • 175x175mm • £4.99

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Tails are not for Pulling

Teeth are not for Biting

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From Words are not for Hurting

From Germs are not for Sharing

How are you feeling today?

Molly Potter

Experiencing emotions is absolutely fine as long as we know what to do with them. It’s not easy when you are a child! This book provides several straightforward, entertaining and appropriate ideas to help children deal with a selection of significant positive and negative emotions. Ideal for starting conversations about emotions with a guide for parents and carers on emotional literacy at the back.

Hardback • 210 x 210mm • 32pp 9781472906090 • £9.99

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Dealing With Feelings Nicola Call and Sally Featherstone

Using straightforward text and charming full colour illustrations, the Dealing With Feelings series helps develop character, teaches positive behaviour and promotes personal, social and emotional skills. Developed and written by experts and supported by research, each book includes additional notes and tips to help teachers, practitioners and parents reinforce the lessons children are learning through the simple stories.

Hardback • 24pp • 160 x 160mm • All £4.99

Sunita’s Baby Sister See Sunita dealing with her jealousy when her baby sister arrives. She gets all the attention, or so it seems.

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Gregory’s Grumpy Day

It’s My Turn

Making Friends

At the childminder’s, Gregory is having a very grumpy day with his friend Jakub.

Natasha has learnt to wait for it to be her turn, but her little brother TJ just hasn’t!

Max and Yuka show how people can be very different, but still be good friends.

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LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

From Sunita’s Baby Sister

From Making Friends

Max’s First Day

Follow Max as he feels anxious getting ready for his first day at school with his dad.

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My Best Friend

My Big Brother

What Natasha Can Do

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Share Molly and Sunita’s story as they learn that everyone has moods and feelings. Even best friends fall out sometimes!

How does it feel to be a younger sibling? Gregory envies his big brother Derek but maybe there are advantages to being smaller!

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Celebrate the independence of young children. Natasha can do lots of things her younger brother can’t. What can they do together?

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LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT

Mathematics Foundations of Mathematics

Carole Skinner and Judith Stevens Written by Early Years mathematics specialists, this title outlines seven strands of practice which underpin successful mathematical development in children aged 3-7 and embeds the revised EYFS throughout. Full of multi-sensory ideas for playing and exploring, making learning active and for developing creative and critical thinking.

This book is a must for all Early Years Practitioners.

Paperback • 136pp 297 x 210mm 9781855394360 • £19.99

NEW

Maths is All Around You

Marianne Knaus and Sally Featherstone Anxious about the teaching and learning of mathematics? This new book introduces a broad range of concepts to enrich children’s experiences. Content includes practical ideas for pattern (early algebra), measurement, matching, counting and introduction of chance (statistics and probability). The importance of language is emphasised with vocabulary lists and questions to provoke thinking.

APRIL 2015 • Paperback • 297 x 210mm • 96pp 9781472913388 • £18.99

Little Books

For more Maths Little Books see pages 4-6 Paperback • 80pp • 210 x 148mm • £8.99

Little Book of Colour, Shape and Number

Little Book of Maths Activities

Little Book of Maths Songs and Games

Focused on three aspects of mathematical development with fun, easy to do activities.

The simple activities in this book will enable you to plan and provide activities for children at different levels of mathematical understanding.

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Little Book of Counting

Little Book of Maths from Stories

Maths Outdoors

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Ideas in problem solving, reasoning and numeracy focused on counting, not recognising numbers.

Covers a range of everyday counting activities.

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Ideas for developing mathematics using high quality picture books and well-known rhymes.

Nothing unusual, nothing to find or buy, just use what you have to explore maths through these simple activities and some new and familiar songs.

Over 40 ideas to support mathematics and current thinking behind outdoor learning in the EYFS. 9781472902559 World (Australia/New Zealand)

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LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT

Literacy

Getting Ready to Write

Child-Initiated Writing

A step-by-step theory into practice guide to mark making, taking practitioners through developmental stages and gender differences. The tried and tested activities include innovative ideas such as Dough Gym and Jedi Writing and are guaranteed to improve children’s progress.

An inspirational book of ideas and activities that make the process of learning to write not only enjoyable but downright fun! Lynn believes that it’s every practitioner’s dream that a child will independently choose a writing activity. She has used these ideas over the years with great success.

Alistair Bryce-Clegg

Lynn Clere

Paperback • 64pp • 297 x 210mm • 9781408193181 • £18.99

Paperback • 72pp • 297 x 210mm • 9781408132630 • £18.99

Foundations of Literacy Sue Palmer and Ros Bayley

Updated to cover the latest EYFS curriculum, this popular book outlines the seven strands of practice upon which successful literacy teaching depends. It includes advice from speech and language therapists, music specialists, developmental psychologists and early years practitioners and covers music, movement, song, role play, storytelling and picture books.

Paperback • 128pp • 297 x 210mm 9781408193846 • £24.99

The Road to Writing Sue Cowley

Have you seen..?

Prepare for the journey young children make when they learn their first words. Offering activities and practical advice, Sue Cowley will inspire practitioners to try lots of creative approaches to mark making. Learn how to improve children’s understanding of symbols and signs, how to build confidence and how to get boys engaged.

Paperback • 192pp 170 x 244mm 9781441103444 • £18.99

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LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT

Understanding the World NEW

A Sense of Wonder

Jenny Aitken, Jan Hunt, Elizabeth Roy, Bess Sajfar and Sally Featherstone

Explore the many possibilities for experiencing science in early childhood settings to encourage children’s eagerness to observe and explore the world around them.

Designed to implement play-based science learning, this framework is divided into four key areas: biological science, physical science, earth science and environmental science. Topics include life, nature, environmental care, sustainability and biodiversity.

SEPTEMBER 2015 Paperback • 297 x 210mm • 96pp 9781472913401 • £18.99

Making The Most Of...

By Linda Thornton and Pat Brunton

The Making The Most Of… series has been specially designed in order to share good practice, showing what high quality learning and development for young children looks like in real settings.

Paperback • 112pp • 297 x 210mm

“This is a very clear and accessible book which is a delight to look at and glean ideas from, secure in the knowledge that these are tried and tested ideas that work.”

“There are many ideas in this book! An excellent book for teachers to use in planning.”

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Early Years Educator Magazine

Light and Mirrors Playing with light is a magical experience for children and adults alike. Making the Most of Light and Mirrors shows practitioners how to help children appreciate the awe and wonder in the world around them and helps them provide an environment which is rich in possibilities for children to develop their natural curiosity.

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Reclaimed and Natural Materials This book is designed to help early years practitioners, through simple text and colour photographs, understand how young children can use natural and reclaimed materials that are readily available in most settings. It provides guidance on how to make a range of creations while at the same time helping children to learn about materials and processes key to early science and technology.

9781408189177 • £18.99

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Outdoor Learning This exciting book in the Making the Most of series shows the value of any outdoor environment as a place which can enhance and enrich young children’s experiences. The book demonstrates how outdoor spaces, both in the setting and further afield, can add richness to the learning environment settings provided for very young children.

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I Love Forest School Martin Pace

This is not a treatise to get children into the outdoors – that is acknowledged as read. It considers different approaches to working with children outdoors, the benefits of each and how they influence educators and support children’s learning. It brings a new understanding to outdoor practice with a case study of the author’s own awardwinning Reflections Nursery and Forest School.

Paperback • 297 x 210mm 64pp • 9781472906076 • £18.99

NEW 100 Ideas for Early Years

Learning and Playing Outdoors

Practitioners: Outdoor Play

Terry Gould

Julie Mountain

As well as fantastic advice on setting up, developing and maintaining outdoor environments for young children, this book features guidance on spaces to develop, what to include and how to do it on a budget with links to the revised EYFS framework. It includes full colour photographs of real settings for extra inspiration.

All practitioners understand the benefits of regular, progressive outdoor play. This new addition to the 100 Ideas series provides simple, quick to understand ideas which range in complexity. Whether you are just getting started with outdoor play or are experienced and have used Forest School ideas, there is something for everyone and every type of weather!

LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT

Outdoor Learning

Paperback • 64pp • 297 x 210mm 9781408193174 • £18.99

MAY 2015

Paperback • 198 x 129mm • 120pp 9781472911032 • £12.99

Effective Practice in Outdoor Learning

The Coombes Approach Susan Rowe

Terry Gould

Showcasing the Coombes School in Berkshire, which has developed an international reputation for its innovative approach to Nursery and Infant teaching.

Its unique ‘outdoor classroom’ is created from the school’s environment. Topics also include curriculum design, pastoral care and the wider policy and community contexts.

Packed full of colour photos and practical ideas, this book is the result of the author listening to practitioners and understanding the importance of the outdoor environment.

Chapters cover all aspects of outdoor learning to help those working in the early years as well as managers, head teachers, students and classroom support.

Paperback • 210 x 297mm • 72pp • 9781408145623 • £16.99

Little Books

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Supported by an online resource bank of pictures and pupils’ activities.

Paperback • 246 x 189mm • 240pp • 9780826440440 • £23.99

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Professional Development

Getting Ready for Phonics

Treasure Baskets and Heuristic Play

Everyone agrees that an understanding of phonics is essential to cracking the code for reading. This book discusses early language development. It focuses on the phonics debate and provides activities to support multisensory learning environments for the teaching of phonological development in the Foundation Stage and early Key Stage 1.

Heuristic Play uses a specific range of 'found' or everyday objects, in adultled and child-initiated sessions, indoors and outside. This book provides information on using treasure baskets and heuristic play with babies and young children and what needs to change to meet the needs of children at different stages of development.

Editor: Sally Featherstone

Paperback • 192pp • 244 x 169mm • 9781408189139 • £18.99

Sally Featherstone

Paperback • 128pp • 244 x 169mm • 9781408175835 • £18.99

“This book cleverly addresses the issues surrounding the development and learning of young boys…an absolute joy to read.”

Early Years Educator Magazine

Getting it Right for Boys

The Cleverness of Boys

A real insight into how boys learn and develop and how to get the environment right for them. Numerous case studies demonstrate how to get true engagement in the learning process and help practitioners to understand why boys do what they do and how to harness this way of learning. Packed with practical advice, this book is highly relevant to raising boys’ achievements in the early years.

The differences between boys and girls, in development and attitude to learning, are well documented. This book addresses the issue of young boys and their learning by taking aspects of the ‘cleverness’ of boys and addressing these through case histories.

Neil Farmer

Sally Featherstone and Ros Bayley

Paperback • 128pp • 245 x 170mm • 9781408114681 • £18.99

Paperback • 128pp • 245 x 170mm • 9781408140710 • £18.99

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Professional Development NEW EDITION

Learning to Learn

Successful Leadership in the Early Years

How children learn is much more important than what they learn. Discover the keys to maintaining the drive to learn from birth onwards and preparing children for each stage of childhood. This book is an introduction to some of the things that affect children’s learning, explaining them in accessible terms with simple ways of ensuring children get the best start in their lifelong learning journey.

This book acknowledges the problems of finding people who can lead effective teams in different types of settings. It provides ideas and suggestions to address the issues facing leaders so they receive the right amount of support in working on the government targets of reducing poverty among families with small children and increasing opportunities for children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Sally Featherstone

Paperback • 244 x 169mm • 208pp 9781472906083 • £18.99

June O’Sullivan

SEPTEMBER 2015 • Paperback • 244 x 169mm • 192pp 9781472919038 • £18.99

The Revised EYFS in Practice

Supporting Child-Initiated Learning

This practical professional development title will take practitioners through the latest EYFS policies and provide vital information and practical advice on how to implement them effectively. With their wealth of experience in the Early Years, Ann Langston and Dr Jonathan Doherty have all the expertise to make this an authoritative book that will be useful to anyone involved in Early Years education.

Why is it that some children behave like butterflies, flitting around among the flowers of activities while others behave with the singleminded concentration of bees? This book, written by a group of experts, explores the place and purpose of child-initiated learning as a key feature of the EYFS.

Ann Langston and Dr. Jonathan Doherty

Editor: Sally Featherstone

Paperback • 144pp • 244 x 169mm 9781408189160 • £18.99

Paperback • 208pp • 244 x 169mm 9781408163948 • £18.99

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Understanding Schemas in Young Children Stella Louis, Clare Beswick and Sally Featherstone

What are schemas and why do they matter? This book is an introduction to understanding and supporting schemas and schema play in young children, including guidance on where they fit within the EYFS. It helps practitioners develop, plan and resource activities which support children’s learning through experiment and play.

Papareback • 244 x 169mm • 112pp 9781408189146 • £18.99

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Observation, Assessment & Planning OBSERVATION, ASSESSMENT AND PLANNING

Summative Assessment in the Early Years Carole Sharman, Wendy Cross and Diana Vennis

NEW Help all children achieve their full potential with this practical, userfriendly guide. Illustrating successful observational techniques, it suggests how to use the results in partnership with parents. Full colour photographs and case studies from real settings bring the ideas to life.

MARCH 2015

Paperback 244 x 169mm • 168pp • 9781472913494 • £18.99

Is Your EYFS on Track?

The EYFS: Am I Getting it Right?

Terry Gould

Anita Soni and Sue Bristow

This book is about evaluating the effectiveness of an early years setting in the light of the latest recommendations. It will help early years leaders, managers and practitioners have a better understanding of the selfevaluation process.

This edition aims to help practitioners answer the question ‘How do I know I am doing the EYFS?’ by using reflection and self-evaluation techniques.

Simple questionnaires help practitioners evaluate the effectiveness of their work.

The book aims to enable practitioners to further develop and improve what goes on in their setting on a day-to-day basis.

Paperback 64pp • 297 x 210mm 9781408163979 • £17.99

Paperback 104pp • 297 x 210mm 9781408186824 • £19.99

EYFS Development Charts Three laminated A3 wall charts presenting the EYFS from birth to 60+ months across all areas of learning. Perfect for tracking progress at a glance.

3 x A3 • 9781472900647 • £12.99

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Time to Series Trudi Fitzhenry and Karen Murphy

This new series from two early years’ specialists is designed to aid planning and assessment of key areas of the EYFS in busy settings. The practical, easy to follow suggestions are linked to the ages and stages of the Early Years outcomes. They help practitioners to be innovative whilst meeting their targets and give suggestions for parents to try at home too.

Paperback 244 x 169mm • 96pp • £9.99

Time to Move

NEW

Covers the Moving and Handling aspects of physical development in the EYFS. JANUARY 2015 • 9781472909503

Time to Socialise Valuable guidance on the Personal, Social and Emotional development area of learning.

OCTOBER 2015 • 9781472919267

Time to Communicate Focuses on communication and language development, a key area of the EYFS requirements.

From Time to Move

OBSERVATION, ASSESSMENT AND PLANNING

Observation, Assessment & Planning

NOVEMBER 2015 • 9781472919281

Creative Planning in the EYFS Lucy Peet

An exciting series supporting topic planning (and assessment) in settings with Foundation Stage children. Based on the latest ELGs, this series will help to support practitioners working with 4 and 5 year old children in all settings with the 7 areas of learning and 17 aspects from the revised EYFS. It provides examples of good practice and ideas and schemes of work over a six-week period. Activities are differentiated using the EYFS terminology – Emerging, Expected and Exceeding – which makes this series both flexible and unique.

Paperback • 64pp • 297 x 210mm • £14.99

Autumn

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PRACTITIONER’S GUIDES

Practitioner’s Guides NEW

Inspiring Play Spaces Susie Rosback, Natalie Coulson and Sally Featherstone

Designed to encourage and inspire all settings to create open-ended play spaces that provide opportunities for children to develop a sense of who they are and an understanding of the world.

Perfect for practitioners looking for new ways to present equipment and new ideas which can be set up in a variety of ways at little or no cost.

FEBRUARY 2015

Paperback 297 x 210mm • 80pp 9781472913364 • £18.99

Learning and Playing Indoors

Terry Gould and Kathy Coates-Mohammed

The learning environment significantly impacts on outcomes for young children.

High quality and inspirational provision is very important.

Explore the theory behind the commitment as well as practical advice on ensuring the indoor learning environment is planned to inspire and capture every child’s imagination.

Paperback 96pp • 297 x 210mm 9781408155493 • £18.99

From Learning and Playing Indoors

Child-initiated Learning

Ros Bayley and Sally Featherstone

The range of ideas will help you to develop an environment where independent learning is celebrated and where children take responsibility for planning and organising their own activities. Case studies in each chapter highlight how to implement good practice in your setting.

Paperback 56pp • 297 x 210mm 9781408125229 • £18.99

“Provides a wealth of ideas for encouraging children to undertake independent learning.

Essential reading.”

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Continuous Provision: The Skills

NEW

Alistair Bryce Clegg

Based on Alistair’s extensive experience in school, this book brings together his knowledge of Continuous Provision and the high level impact and engagement it can bring. In his previous book on the subject, Alistair covered what effective practice should look like and how to achieve it by linking it to assessment. This title demonstrates that in every area of continuous provision there are ‘pure’ skills that children can only learn in that area and ‘facilitative’ skills that children can learn through that area. It is a practical guide to differentiated skill development.

PRACTITIONER’S GUIDES

Practitioner’s Guides Alistair Bryce-Clegg

APRIL 2015

Paperback • 297 x 210mm • 72pp 9781472909527 • £18.99

From Vacant to Engaged

Continuous Provision in the Early Years

Alistair Bryce-Clegg

This book shows, through practical examples, how practitioners can move away from the more traditional model of teaching to one driven by the most powerful learning tool of all – engagement.

The combination of current theory and practical examples makes this an invaluable book.

Alistair Bryce-Clegg

Paperback • 64pp 297 x 210mm 9781408163986 £18.99

Paperback 128pp • 297 x 210mm 9781408175828 • £18.99

Bringing together Alistair’s knowledge of continuous provision and the high level impact it can bring, this book includes explanations, links to assessment plus case studies and illustrations.

Critically, it helps to provide carefully structured learning opportunities.

Early Years Display

Creative Role Play in the Early Years

Many settings still insist on creating displays that are designed by adults or for adults. Both the EYFS and the Children’s Act ask that children play an active part in decision making processes and child-led display offers an excellent way of moving towards these goals.

Role play is an important part of every child's entitlement. This lively book will guide you in planning, stimulating and organising role play inside and out. There are ideas for materials, equipment and locations, including advice on making the most of limited resources. Unlock your imagination and help your children to bring out what's inside!

Alistair Bryce-Clegg

This book includes specific examples as well as changing traditional views with reference to all types of setting.

Alistair Bryce-Clegg

Paperback • 64pp • 297 x 210mm • 9781408155479 • £18.99

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PRACTITIONER’S GUIDES

Practitioners’ Guides Press It, Switch It, Turn It, Move it!

Terry Gould

This practical book supports the delivery of early ICT across the revised EYFS, including resource suggestions for providing an ICT-rich environment. It also supports nervous practitioners with case studies, ideas and practical elements based on research and experience.

Paperback 64pp • 297 x 210mm 9781408195055 • £18.99

From Press It, Switch It, Turn It, Move It!

Science in the Early Years Kirstine Beeley

An inspirational book that gives practitioners the confidence to teach Science in the early years, helping children to become active and inquisitive learners. This book looks at and challenges the traditional teaching views of Science and aims to show how scientific exploration and thinking are at the heart of child-led, child-centered EYFS provision.

Paperback 64pp • 297 x 210mm 9781408155462 • £18.99

The Key Person Approach

Anita Soni and Sue Bristow This user-friendly book links the theory that underpins the Key Person Approach with how to develop and support effective practice in settings.

It offers solutions to the challenges this approach can bring, especially in schools, and includes questions to encourage self-evaluation and reflective practice.

Paperback 96pp • 297 x 210mm 9781408137307 • £18.99

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PRACTITIONER’S GUIDES

Practitioners’ Guides NEW

Alistair Bryce-Clegg’s Guide to the Early Years

How to be an Outstanding Childminder

This book contains lots of easy-to-introduce activities and techniques that will move your practice towards that outstanding level! Alistair is known for his original and creative ideas and witty and accessible writing style, and this book does not disappoint. Filled with brilliant ideas and practical approaches to use as an early years practitioner, including advice for planning sessions, setting up an outstanding environment and encouraging outdoor learning activities. A must for all early years practitioners and school teachers eager to ensure their practice is the best it can be.

An invaluable handbook, this edition contains easy-to-introduce tips and techniques to propel childminders into the outstanding category everyday, without spending lots more time planning and preparing. It includes information on tracking the developmental progress of children and keeping up to date with training and legislation as well as covering relationships, early identification and intervention and self-evaluation.

MAY 2015

Paperback • 216 x 138mm • 160pp • 9781441172853 • £14.99

Alistair Bryce Clegg

Paperback • 244 x 169mm • 128pp • £16.99

Allison Lee

The companion website contains planning tools, observation checklists and transition forms and links to useful websites.

NEW

100 Ideas for Early Years Practitioners: Outdoor Play

100 Ideas for Early Years Practitioners: Outstanding Practice

100 Ideas for Early Years Practitioners: School Readiness

All practitioners understand the benefits of regular, progressive outdoor play. This new addition to the 100 Ideas series provides simple, quick to understand ideas which range in complexity. Whether you are just getting started with outdoor play or are experienced and have used Forest School ideas, there is something for everyone and every type of weather!

100 easy to implement ideas to transform your planning, practice and setting from good to outstanding! Full of tips for promoting independence, stimulating creative thinking, developing a sense of calm and maintaining a structured environment, this book is an excellent tool for both new and experienced practitioners.

Discover practical activities and ideas to develop the basic skills every child needs as a foundation for learning, whatever their individual needs and learning styles. Areas covered include speaking and listening skills, early numeracy, pre-writing and reading skills and social confidence.

Additional ideas for involving parents help to promote links between home and early years provision. Applying the latest thinking concerning pre-school learning, this book helps prepare the ground for a child’s future success.

Julie Mountain

MAY 2015

Lucy Peet

Paperback • 198 x 129mm • 120pp 9781472906335 • £12.99

Paperback • 198 x 129mm • 120pp 9781472911032 • £12.99

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Clare Ford

Paperback • 198 x 129mm 136pp • 9781472903846 • £12.99

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MUSIC

Music Playsongs

Playsongs

Livelytime Playsongs

Sleepytime Playsongs

72 songs and rhymes for babies and toddlers.

The perfect musical start for the very young. Fully illustrated book and CD.

Parents and carers of young children will find a wealth of entertainment for their lively babies and toddlers in this full colour picture songbook. With 30 action songs and rhymes for children from birth to walking.

A relaxing day full of gentle play for babies and toddlers in this full colour picture songbook which tells baby’s day from start to finish. Interleaved are songs and rhymes for each stage of the day, all with actions for interactive fun, relaxation and lullaby.

Sheena Roberts

Paperback + CD • 48pp • 220 x 230mm Colour Illustrations • 9780713663716 • £12.99

Sheena Roberts and Rachel Fuller

Paperback + CD • 32pp • Colour Illustrations 220 x 230 mm • 9780713669404 • £9.99

Sheena Roberts

Paperback + CD • 32pp • Colour Illustrations 220 x 230 mm • 9780713669411 • £9.99

Three Tapping Teddies

Three Singing Pigs

A much-loved music and literacy resource with 15 stories told by Kaye Umansky and activities by Helen MacGregor and others. Each story contains a song, rap or chant with favourites including Goldilocks, Little Red Riding Hood, Pinocchio and Cinderella.

A brand new edition of this baker’s dozen of traditional tales retold by the wonderful Kaye Umansky. A muchloved resource of musical fun through stories. Includes songs with familiar melodies and specially rewritten words to carry the action along.

Instantly performable pieces of classroom magic.

Kaye Umansky

Spiral bound paperback • 64pp • Line illustrations • 210 x 220mm 9780713674736 • £12.99

Kaye Umansky

Spiral bound paperback • 64pp • 210 x 220mm • 9780713673258 • £14.99

Game Songs with Prof Dogg

Okki Tokki Unga

A flexible resource of tried and tested activities to last for minutes, weeks or years of music teaching. Progressive and fully supported by clear guidance, the activities can be dipped into or followed through from the start.

An innovative collection of 44 songs and games with open-ended activities, perfect for allowing children’s imaginations to fly. What would a dinosaur like to eat? How can we brew up a spell? Develop confidence in language, movement and social play.

The greatest collection of action songs for young children. Try Ten Fat Sausages or the No Laugh Race with lots of toe tapping, wriggling and giggling in between.

Paperback • 297 x 210mm • 64pp 9781408123614 • £16.99

Spiral bound paperback • 64pp 9781408194430 • £16.99

Kickstart Music EY

Anice Paterson and David Wheway

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David McKee

Beatrice Harrop

Spiral bound paperback • 96pp • 210 x 297mm Also available as Triple CD pack PB book: 9780713640786 • £16.99 Triple CD pack: 9781408129470 • £13.99

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EYFS Music Express

Singing Phonics

Sally Hickman, Sue Nicholls, Patricia Scott

Book 1 Helen MacGregor and Catherine Birt Singing Phonics is a song collection for 3-5 year olds, specially designed to support the earliest steps in phonics teaching and to enrich young children’s experience of language in a fun and interactive way. Includes songs with new words to familiar tunes.

Now incorporating the whole age range from birth to five, this edition fully supports the 2012 Statutory Framework for the EYFS. Includes old favourites and exciting new ideas arranged in popular themes within the learning and development areas.

New features include child-initiated learning and more outdoor ideas.

Paperback + 3CDs • 88pp 297 x 210m • 9781408187074 • £34.99

MUSIC

Music

Paperback + CD • 80pp 297 x 210mm 9781408104729 • £19.99

Musical Steps Cathy McCallum

The Musical Steps series has been specially designed for early years practitioners without any musical experience to help introduce music through popular topics.

• Full colour, lots of photos and simple instructions • Related activities link to key EYFS areas • Child-initiated activities and observation guidance Each CD includes catchy backing tracks and sample performances to make learning the songs fun and easy. Everyone will be singing along in no time!

Paperback + CD • 48pp • 174 x 148mm • £9.99

Animals

Homes

Ourselves

The Sea

9781408165645

9781408165621

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Topics include: Wild animals; Farm animals; Pets.

Topics include: My house; Rooms; Looking after my home.

Topics include: My body; My family and friends; My feelings.

Topics include: Fish; Sailing; The seashore.

Noisy Picture Books

Take a great story and lots of silly sounds, mix with a happy helping of children, and you have a recipe for a Kaye Umansky Noisy Picture Book. Riotously funny re-tellings of favourite tales as you have never heard them before. Ideal for join-in storytelling. Includes CD performances and full colour illustrations.

All Paperback • 280 x 215mm • 24pp • £7.99

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