Here Come the Robots -- by Joyce Milton (Author) (Book - Child)
"Discusses the history of robots, real robots that have existed, and some fictional ones." From Card Catalog
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12), Adolescence (13-21)
The Bat-Poet -- by Randall Jarrell (Author) (Book - Child)
"There was once a little brown bat who couldn't sleep days he kept waking up and looking at the world. Before long he began to see things differently from the other bats, who from dawn to sunset never...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12), Adolescence (13-21)
Child Development Institute (Online - Parent)
"Child Development Institute was founded by Robert Myers, Ph.D. Dr. Myers is a Clinical Child Psychologist with 20 years of experience working with children, adolescents, families and parents....
All Ages
Age groups: Infancy (<1), Toddlerhood (1-3), Preschool/Kindergarten (3-5), School Age (6-12), Adolescence (13-21)
Learning While Black: Creating Educational Excellence for African American Children -- by Janice Hale (Author) (Book)
"In Learning While Black Janice Hale argues that educators must look beyond the cliches of urban poverty and teacher training to explain the failures of public education with regard to black students....
All Ages
Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
Necessary But Not Sufficient: The Respective Roles of Single and Multiple Influences on Individual Development -- by Theodore Wachs (Author) (Book - Parent)
In this provocative book, developmental psychologist Theodore Wachs challenges scholars to reconsider simple "nature vs. nurture" premises, arguing that they are poor predictors of outcome. Mustering...
All Ages
Age groups: Infancy (<1), Toddlerhood (1-3), Preschool/Kindergarten (3-5), School Age (6-12)
Language, Cognition and Deafness -- by Michael Rodda, Carl Grove (Authors) (Book)
No professional review available.
All Ages
How Culture Shapes Social-Emotional Development: Implications for Practice in Infant-Family Programs -- by Rebecca Parlakian, Monimalika Day (Authors) (Book - Parent)
"This publication, written for program leaders and practitioners, examines how culture shapes children's fundamental learning about themselves, their emotions, and their way of interacting and...
All Ages
Age groups: Infancy (<1), Toddlerhood (1-3)
Muppet Kids Thinking Skills (Software - Child)
Uses engaging animation to teach preschool/kindergarten age children basic skills of: * Memory skills * critical thinking * predicting * drawing conclusions
All Ages
Age groups: Preschool/Kindergarten (3-5)
When I Am Old with You -- by Angela Johnson (Author) (Book - Child)
Product Description "A small child imagines a future when he will be old with his Grandaddy. . . . The African-American child and grandfather are distinct individuals, yet also universal figures,...
Ages 4 years - 8 years.
Learning Outside The Lines: Two Ivy League Students With Learning And ADHD Give You The Tools -- by Jonathan Mooney, David Cole (Authors) (Book)
"Learning Outside the Lines is written by two such "academic failures" -- that is, two academic failures who graduated from Brown University at the top of their class. Jonathan Mooney and David Cole...
All Ages
Age groups: Toddlerhood (1-3), Preschool/Kindergarten (3-5), School Age (6-12), Adolescence (13-21), Adulthood (22+)
