BOOKS

Tell Me a Story: Sharing Stories to Enrich Your Child’s World (Oxford University Press, 2013)

Family storytelling offers many of the same advantages as book reading — and some new ones — for children's language and emotional development, coping skills, and sense of belonging. Tell Me a Story: Sharing Stories to Enrich Your Child's World shows parents how telling and sharing stories about family experiences can help children grow into healthy, happy adolescents and adults. Dr. Elaine Reese outlines the techniques that work best with children of all ages, from toddlers to teens.

Contemporary Debates in Childhood Education and Development (Routledge 2012)

Co-edited with Sebastian Suggate, this book draws upon the wisdom of education and child development experts like Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Golinkoff, Richard House, and David Carr for their views on key topics: when to start teaching children to read; the value of homework; the place of digital media in early childhood education; and the benefits of academic- versus play-based curricula.