This issue offers research-based ideas and practical strategies to give children many opportunities to explore, appreciate, and value the natural world. You’ll find four articles from the January 2008 issue of Young Children as well as additional resources and columns. For more ideas about children and nature, see the two articles published exclusively online.
Learning to Love the Earth . . . and Each Other/Nancy Rosenow
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Childhood in the Garden: A Place to Encounter Natural and Social Diversity /John Nimmo and Beth Hallett (expanded version)
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Infants and Toddlers Meet the Natural World/Jolie D. McHenry and Kathy J. Buerk
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Resources for Teaching and Learning about the Natural World
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Additional Features
Guidance Matters. Comprehensive Guidance/Dan Gartrell
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Rocking & Rolling: Supporting Infants, Toddlers, and Their Families. New Year’s Resolutions for Infant/Toddler Teachers/Donna R. Britt and Linda Groves Gillespie
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The Reading Chair/Isabel Baker and Miriam Baker Schiffer
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New Books/Gail Perry
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Guide to Authors and Articles in Volume 62
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Online Exclusives
The Children & Nature Network: Ensuring That All Children Can Spend Quality Time Outdoors/Martha Farrell Erickson
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Books for Young Children about Nature/compiled by Meredith MacMillan
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Correction: In the January 2008 issue of Young Children article “Sparking Interest in Nature—Family Style,” by Donna J. Satterlee and Grace D. Cormons, the correct e-mail address for Cormons is: gcormons@es.vccs.edu.
