By Lella Gandini

As the authors state in their opening chapter, "prepare to be amazed." This beautiful book describes the revolution that the Reggio Emilia Atelier (studio) brought to the education of young children in Italy, and follows that revolution across the ocean to North America. It explores how the experiences of children interacting with rich materials in the atelier affect an entire school's approach to the construction and expression of thought and learning.

By Ann Lewin-Benham

Possible Schools tells the compelling story of the Model Early Learning Center (MELC) in Washington, DC - the only school in a U.S. urban area to successfully implement the principles of the Municipal Preschools of Reggio Emilia. The author describes the origin of this school, which served impoverished urban families, and traces its evolution from a chaotic inception to its ability to apply Reggio practices.

By Vea Vecchi and Claudia Giudici, Editors

This catalogue is offers a "guided tour" of the exhibit entitled "The Expressive Languages of Children, the Artistic Language of Alberto Burri," which was held in Reggio Emilia in 2001 and included works by children ranging in age from the infant-toddler center to the elementary school. Along with texts of the exhibit, this catalogue includes a number of essays discussing the relationship between Reggio Emilia schools and the city, children and art, and pedagogy and the atelier.

By Louise Boyd Cadwell

Bringing Reggio Emilia Home is the first book to integrate the experiences of one American teacher on a year-long internship in the preschools of Reggio, with a four-year adaptation effort in one American school. The lively text includes many "mini-stories" of preschool and kindergarten-age children, teachers, and parents who embark on journeys of learning together. These journeys take shape in language, in drawings, in tempera paint and clay, in outdoor excursions and in the imaginations of both the children and adults. This informative and accessible work features photographs of the children (both in Italy and the United States) and samples of the children's work, including some of full color.

By Judy Harris Helm, Sallee Beneke, and Kathy Steinheimer

The authors developed an approach to thinking and communicating about documentation and then explored documentation and its use in a number of early childhood programs, including the schools of Reggio Emilia. The result is a framework, collection system, and display method that works in American schools. Incorporating knowledge and skills gained from using a valid and reliable authentic assessment system - Work Sampling - Windows on Learning shows a variety of ways to document; how to collect, analyze, and display children's work; how to develop individualized portfolios; and how to meet the demands for accountability prevalent in U.S. schools. Methods are applicable to many different curriculum models, including thematic teaching and the project approach. This complete guide to documentation features extensive examples of children's and teachers' work, including many photographs.

By William A. Corsaro and Luisa Molinari

What happens when children in creative, Reggio-like preschools go to a more traditional elementary school? In this book, William Corsaro and his Italian co-author, Luisa Molinari, tell a complete and important story about the lives of children as they grow from young preschoolers to preadolescents in Modena, Italy. The authors both fully explore and participate in the rich, complex history and development of the Italian early education system.

By Louise Boyd Cadwell

Building on her enormously popular book, Bringing Reggio Emilia Home, Louise Cadwell helps American educators understand what it means to use ideas from the Reggio Approach in their classrooms. In new and dynamic ways, Cadwell once again takes readers inside the day-to-day practice of a group of early childhood educators. This time she describes the growth and evolution of the work in the St. Louis Reggio Collaborative over the past 10 years.

By Lella Gandini and Carolyn Pope Edwards, Editors

This volume is a timely contribution to the burgeoning dialogue on the Reggio Emilia approach, and features the work of prominent scholars, policy-makers, researchers, administrators, and practicing teachers who have created and directed the infant-toddler care systems in four cities in Italy. Joined by American educators and researchers (including Ron Lally, Rebecca New, and Jeanne Goldhaber), their work builds upon and extends inclusionary and family-centered philosophies. It combines missions of care and education, and produces innovations in space and environments. This collection is filled with dozens of examples of experiences with dynamic, open systems of organization that support emotional and cognitive development of infants and toddlers - and respect the delicate relationship between parents and their young.

By Reggio Children

REMIDA, the creative recycling center of Reggio Emilia schools, promotes the idea that waste materials can be resources. The center collects, displays, and offers alternative and reclaimed materials with the aim to reinvent their use and meaning. REMIDA Days are special days of celebration that take place during the month of May and involve the participation of thousands of people, offering them the opportunity to reflect on the issues of environmental impact and sustainable development, as well as how ideas and projects in schools can be renewed and nurtured by the relationship between economic thinking and creative thinking. This book offers a beautiful pictorial tour of the amazing experience of Reggio Emilia's REMIDA Days from 2000 to 2003.

Exploring materials is an evocative experience. It stimulates the imagination, inspires storytelling and interactions between children, and serves as a bridge to drawing, collage, sculpture, and construction. But how much exploration should you allow? How should you guide it? Where will it take you and the children you teach? How can you build upon your discoveries? Share the journey of real teachers in a real school who were inspired by educators from Reggio Emilia, Italy. They observed and recorded what happens when the focus is on process rather than product. In Beautiful Stuff!, you'll find ideas and suggestions, delights and revelations, doubts, joys, and continual insights. Above all, you'll find approaches to nurturing the innate creativity of children that you can adapt to any teaching situation.

By Ursula Kolbe

Rapunzel's Supermarket: All about Young Children and Their Art shows young children as imaginative thinkers and explorers - artists as much as scientists - in a joyful quest to understand their world. A mix of inspiration and practical advice, this book offers you many ideas for helping children to realize their potential.

By Carol Anne Wien, Editor

How is a compelling, exemplary curriculum created in schools in spite of the pressures to implement a standardized one? In this book, teachers and principals share their experiences with emergent curriculum, and with the creative practices they were trying to do, how they began the process, the challenges they faced, the decisions they made, and what happened to the children. All chapters are written by teachers who have found ways of interpreting the Reggio approach to enrich their teaching within the confines of traditional schools. This book is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand emergent curriculum and for all who hope to nurture an enlivening, energizing way to learn in classrooms.

By Ann Lewin-Benham

Understanding How to Teach and Learn Using the Reggio Approach

In Possible Schools, Ann Lewin-Benham showed us that we can create schools that engage the minds of children and involve parents. In this book, she describes projects in a school that successfully adapted the Reggio Approach with Head Start-eligible children. She explains how to use the Reggio Approach to address current major concerns in early education, including helping children become self-disciplined, making sure children are ready for 1st grade, assessing children's progress, and laying a foundation for literacy.

By Lella Gandini, Susan Etheredge, & Lynn Hill, Editors

The Reggio Emilia Approach to early childhood education is transforming how our children learn. This famed method puts the natural development of children, their close relationship with their environment, and the practice of documenting every step of the learning process at the center of its philosophy. Here, in words and images from classrooms across North America, is the Reggio Emilia learning experience, explored, discussed, and evaluated from the perspectives of educators, scholars, and policy makers. It’s a celebration of 30 years of innovative work in America, with an introduction to the city and schools of Reggio Emilia and a description of the values and principles at the core of this educational system.

By Reggio Children

From "Introduction" by Antonella Spaggiari:
"We have much to learn from the children who have 'designed' this guide and who therefore show us how to see and experience our city. I believe that we should truly let them guide us to understand and get to know 'Reggio Tutta', exactly as they describe it."
Children from Reggio Emilia take readers on a tour of their city through photographs, drawings, and translated dialogue.

145 pages.

By Reggio Children

Exchanging ideas, creating projects, establishing collaborations: these are events that often take place around a table during a meal and in moments of conviviality, where the quality of the conversation becomes warmer and more empathic. In Reggio Emilia, the choice of having a kitchen in each of the municipal Infant-toddler Centers and Preschools has always conveyed strong meaning, both pedagogical and cultural. The kitchen represents a sort of gastronomic "resistance" that safeguards diversity and values and respects different tastes, religious choices, and medical indications. The kitchen is a place for listening to the families and their habits, as well as for orientation toward the community, where lunchtime becomes a space and context of relationships and encounters with the world.

This is the backdrop for a "cookbook" made up of good recipes, experiences, projects, and thoughts that are constructed and take shape in and around the kitchen.

111 pages.

By Reggio Children

In English and Italian
Everything in this document belongs to the thoughts, discussions and interpretations of five and six-year-old children, on themes that deal with their desires and expectations, and especially with their requests made to the adult world.

"Giving a voice to children thus means recognizing children's rights to be the primary authors of their lives. Giving a voice to children is the courageous adventure of this editorial series that urges us to open our ears and listen to this 'unheard voice'." -Sergio Spaggiari

69 pages.

By Reggio Children

In English and Italian
Shoe and Meter invites us to listen to the story of a group of five-year-old children who are trying to give shape and meaning to the concepts of measurement and number.

103 pages.

By Carlina Rinaldi

This book offers a selection of Carlina Rinaldi's most important articles, lectures and interviews from 1984 to the present day, with introductions explaining the context which inspired each piece. Much of this material has never before been published in English, and focuses on a number of questions:
Why are the pedagogy of listening, pedagogical documentation, participation and research such important concepts in Reggio Emilia? How are they practiced?
How can educators most effectively make use of art and creativity?
What is so unique about Reggio Emilia?

This book will not just be essential reading to those studying or teaching early childhood education. Anyone with a concern for the larger issues of learning, childhood and the place of the school in a democratic society will find this a seminal text.

226 pages.

By Reggio Children

From "A Precious Work" by Antonella Spaggiari:
"Most cities have a theater, and all theaters have a house curtain. But I think it would not be mistaken to say that only our city has a theater with a curtain designed and produced by children who have not yet reached the age of six, young from the Municipal Preschools of Reggio Emilia...This book is a response to the curiosity and the desire to understand how they did it, how they achieved their goal, and the instruments and processes involved. It is an interesting story, indeed, which tells us many things: about the children, their capabilities, their expressive richness; about the value of working in a group; about teachers who listen to and respect the children's ideas, thoughts, difficulties, and problems."

131 pages

By Lilian G. Katz, Bernard Cesarone, Editors

From "Preface" by Lilian G. Katz:
"Early childhood educators around the world continue to be deeply inspired and enlightened by what we are learning from the preprimary schools of Reggio Emilia. We are pleased to present this collection of recent papers representing a variety of perspectives on the implications of the Reggio Emilia approach to early education.

109 pages.

This volume contains the proceedings of the conference held in Reggio Emilia in 2004 entitled "Crossing Borders". It was a conference on children's rights in the world and on the capability of towns to meet these rights with the appropriate services. The courageous choice was made to tackle the theme of identity, giving rise to an itinerary of collective research on the identity of creches and nursery schools in a period of great change. Identity between memory and future were the main subjects of study and each creche and nursery school produced "evidence" of its identity with "historic" teachers, younger teachers, parents who became citizens in the municipal childhood boards (because their children are now grown up) and parents of today who are coping with being a mother or father for the first time.

123 pages, includes DVD featuring video interviews with conference speakers.

In English and Italian

"The Hundred Languages of Children" exhibit offers an extensive view of the experience of the preschools of Reggio Emilia to visitors both in Italy and abroad. This exhibit makes visible a number of strategic choices that provide useful examples of quality guarantees, including the production and diffusion of instruments and materials for training and communication, the design and organization of professional development activities, the gathering of documentation and its re-elaboration for dissemination, the support given to the exchange of experiences, and the recognition and re-proposal of the most effective projects and experiences." - Giancarlo Lombardi

215 pages.

By Reggio Children

The five- and six-year-old children, who are leaving the preschool for the elementary school, tell the three-year-old children about the preschool they are entering. A book by the children, teachers and parents of the "Diana" preschool.

45 pages.