UNDER-THREES
Nurturing Babies and Children Under Four Sally Thomas (DVD and resource pack, Heinemann)
Working with Babies and Children: From birth to three Jools Page, Cathy Nutbrown and Ann Clare (Sage Publications)
Familiar Things Age Birth-3 (Can Do Series) Sally Thomas (Cengage Learning Vocational)
Effective Practice in the EYFS: an essential guide Vicky Hutchin (Open University Press/NW)
Penny Tassoni's Practical EYFS Handbook (Pearson)
People Under Three - Young children in daycare, Elinor Goldschmied and Sonia Jackson (Routledge)
Birth to Three Really Matters, Redcar and Cleveland Local Authority (Featherstone Education)
Planning and Observation of Children under Three Helen Bradford (David Fulton)
Developing Play for the Under 3s: The Treasure Basket and Heuristic Play Anita Hughes (Routledge)
Creating a Learning Environment for Babies and Toddlers Ann Clare (Sage)
The Baby Room Kathy Goouch and Sacha Powell (Open University Press)
Key Times for Play: The first three years and Key Times: A framework for developing high quality provision for children from birth to three (book and video) Julia Manning-Morton and Maggie Thorp (OUP)
CHILD DEVELOPMENT, LEARNING, WELL-BEING
Care and Caring Matter: young children learning through care Jennie Lindon (Early Education)
How Children Learn - The characteristics of effective early learning Nancy Stewart (Early Education)
Child Development: Your guide to the first five years Maria Robinson, covering areas such as language, communication, awareness, behaviour, memory, relationships, the brain and physical development, www.nurseryworld.co.uk/child-development
Well-being - a four-part series, Marion Dowling, www.nurseryworld.co.uk/well-being/
How Children Learn - a three-part series, Jan Dubiel, www.nurseryworld.co.uk/how-children-learn
EYFS Best Practice: Prime time ... and EYFS Best Practice: Prime time - under-threes - series on the importance of the Prime areas and how to support their development, www.nursery world.co.uk/eyfs-prime-areas
The Practitioner Role - a four-part series Julie Fisher, www.nurseryworld.co.uk/practitoner-role
SUPPORTING TWO-YEAR-OLDS
See our monthly two-year-olds series Penny Tassoni. The series started in January (www.nursery world.co.uk/article/1166448/) and will run throughout the year.
What Does It Mean To Be Two? by Jennie Lindon (Practical Pre-school Books)
I am two! - Working effectively with two-year-olds and their families by Kay Mathieson (Early Education)
Two-year-olds: Are you ready for me? - the Cheshire East planning document, www.nursery world.co.uk/article/1161284/
All about ... heuristic play by Jools Page, www.nurseryworld.co.uk/news/722624/, one of a series of articles on treasure baskets and heuristic play at: www.nurseryworld.co.uk/treasure-baskets-heuristic-play
A Place to Talk - For Two-year-olds by Elizabeth Jarman (Place to Talk series, Featherstone)
SCHEMAS
Schemas -a six-part series of case studies, www.nurseryworld.co.uk/schemas/
Young Children Learning Through Schemas: Deepening the dialogue about learning in the home and in the nursery (Pen Green Books for Early Years Educators) Katey Mairs, The Pen Green Team, Cath Arnold (Routledge)
ATTACHMENT AND KEY PERSON APPROACH
Attachment - A five-part guide, Anne O'Connor, www.nurseryworld.co.uk/attachment
Key people - A five-part guide, Anne O'Connor, www.nurseryworld.co.uk/key-people
The Key Person Approach: How to Support Effective Practice in Your Setting (Practitioners' Guides) Anita Soni and Sue Bristow (Featherstone Education)
Key Persons in the Early Years: Building relationships for quality provision in early years settings and primary schools Peter Elfer, Elinor Goldschmied and Dorothy Y Selleck (Routledge)
The Key Person Approach (Positive Relationships in the Early Years) Jennie Lindon (Practical Pre-school Books)
TRANSITIONS
Transitions in the Early Years - Working with Children and Families Lyn Trodd, University of Hertfordshire (Sage)
Understanding Transitions in the Early Years: Supporting change through attachment and resilience Anne O'Connor (David Fulton)
Starting nursery, www.nursery world.co.uk/article/724332/behaviour-transitions
Hard to part www.nurseryworld.co.uk/article/1122711/ positive-relationships-behaviour--hard-part
Poster boys and girls www. nurseryworld.co.uk/article/838848/ positive-relationships-settling--poster-boys-girls
Get settled - induction policy www.nurseryworld.co.uk/article/714708/settled
BEHAVIOUR
Challenging Behaviour - a three-part guide, Pat Gordon-Smith, www.nurseryworld.co.uk/challenging-behaviour
Top ten challenges www.nurseryworld.co.uk/behaviour
Feelings and behaviour: a creative approach Anni McTavish (Early Education)
Understanding Children's Behaviour: 0-11 Years: Play, Development and Learning Jennie Lindon (Hodder)
Understanding Behaviour and Development in Early Childhood Maria Robinson (Routledge)
PROGRESS CHECK AT TWO
Working together - the Wokingham model, www.nurseryworld.co.uk/article/1159082/
An introduction, www.nursery world.co.uk/article/1129247/
Assessment in the EYFS, www.nurseryworld.co.uk/article/1129246/
The future of the check, www.nurseryworld.co.uk/article/1179242/
PARENTS
Involving Parents in their Children's Learning Margy Whalley (Sage Publications)
Parents as Partners Jennie Lindon (Practical Pre-school Books)
Building Positive Relationships with Parents of Young Children: A guide to effective communication Anita Hughes and Veronica Read (Routledge)
At www.nurseryworld.co.uk/parents-guides, a wide variety of parent guides to the EYFS, 'ages and stages', family life and health
INCLUSION
Equality and Diversity - an eight-part series, Anne O'Connor, www.nurseryworld.co.uk/equality-and-diversity
SAFEGUARDING
Working Together to Safeguard Children, http://media.education.gov.uk/assets/files/pdf/w/ working%20together.pdf
Revised guidelines, www.nurseryworld.co.uk/news/1175697/
HEALTH, NUTRITION AND MEALTIMES
For guides to common illnesses and conditions, see www.nurseryworld.co.uk/doctors-diary