Ojiichan’s Gift
By Chieri Uegaki, illustrated by Genevieve Simms. Kids Can Press, 2019. 30 pages, $18.99.
Early Education
Invitations to Play: Using Play to Build Literacy Skills in Young Learners
By Anne Burke. Pembroke Publishers Limited, 2019. 128 pages, $24.95.
Environmental Education
Kimberly Maich talks about some of the classroom strategies she uses to engage and motivate her students to advocate for their own future.
The Day War Came
Nicola Davies, illustrated by Rebecca Cobb. Candlewick Press, 2018. 32 pages, $19.99.
The Little Word Catcher
Danielle Simard, illustrated by Geneviève Côté, translated by Jill Corner. Second Story Press, 2007. 24 pages, $14.95.
Pushing The Limits: How Schools Can Prepare Our Children Today for the Challenges of Tomorrow
Kelly Gallagher-Mackay and Nancy Steinhauer. Doubleday Canada, 2017. 272 pages, $32.95.
Telling a Different Story
Francesca Alfano reviews Peter Moss’s Transformative Change and Real Utopias in Early Childhood Education, a book which proposes that the neoliberal narrative currently being used to understand early childhood education is not neutral or inevitable.
Student Diversity, 3rd Edition: Teaching Strategies to Meet the Learning Needs of All Students in K-10 Classrooms
Faye Brownlie, Catherine Feniak and Leyton Schnellert. Pembroke Publishers, 2016. 160 pages, $24.95
The Stories We Teach
For the last eight years, I have been developing social justice curriculum for kindergarten-Grade 6 students at The Grove Community School.
Violence in the Early Years
For young students witnessing violence in the classroom there may be long term effects such as anxiety or fear of returning to school.