LibGuides: Early Childhood Education: Finding Books

Using the Catalog to Find Books

Many useful resources are available in the Doane Library, including books, reference books, Ebooks, and videos. Additional resources may be available from other libraries by using Interlibrary Loan (see below). Select Libraries Worldwide in the limiters on the left side of the catalog to see what is available in those libraries.

Refer to the video below if you are unfamiliar with searching the catalog. If you have any questions or run into problems with your search ask the librarians for assistance. We're happy to help!

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Samples of Books Available in the Library

Here are just a few books on early childhood education available through the Doane Library:

Treasure Baskets and Beyond: Realizing the Potential of Sensory-Rich Play (ebook) by Sue Gascoyne
Publication Date: 2012
The book demonstrates how babies through to primary school children, including those with special educational needs, can derive rich and meaningful hands-on learning from sensory-rich objects and the wider application of sensory play.
Roots and Wings: affirming culture and preventing bias in early childhood (ebook) by Stacey York
Publication Date: 2016
Use the updated activities, examples, and research to improve your anti-bias and multicultural education programs. This clear and practical guide includes expanded information on English language learners, family engagement, culturally responsive teaching, and staff training.
Teaching STEM Literacy (ebook) by Juliana Texley; Ruth M. Ruud
Publication Date: 2018
Comprised of ready-made, open-ended lessons reviewed and tested by teachers, this book helps educators integrate STEM learning into the early childhood classroom. Lessons are linked to the Next Generation Science Standards, and encourage creative ideas for three-dimensional STEM learning that are developmentally appropriate and exemplified through children's literature.
When Young Children Need Help (ebook) by Deborah Hirschland
ISBN: 9781605542737
Publication Date: 2015
This book provides a framework for understanding a range of emotional, behavioral, and developmental challenges. It explores a process through which early childhood teachers and providers can translate their growing understanding of a child's difficulties into sensible goals for intervention, and lays out practical strategies that help kids connect and communicate with ease, focus their attention, manage their bodies and their feelings, engage in constructive problem-solving, and experience themselves as successful friends and learners.
Technology and Critical Literacy in Early Childhood (ebook) by Vivian Maria Vasquez; Carol Branigan Felderman
ISBN: 9781136264856
Publication Date: 2012
This book explores the intersection of technology and critical literacy, specifically addressing what ICTs afford critical literacy work with young children between ages three to eight. Concise but comprehensive, the text provides strategies, theoretical frameworks, demonstrations of practice, and resources for teachers.

Browsing Books by Call Number

The Doane Library uses the Library of Congress classification system for call numbers.

Here are some subject call numbers that may be useful for searching Child Development Information:

HQ 767.8 - HQ 792.2...Families and Children, Child development, child-rearing, child life, play, socialization, children's rights

HV 701 - HV 1420.5...Children, destitute, neglected, abandoned

LB 5 - LB 3640...Theory and practice of education

LB 51 - LB 885...Systems of individual educators and writers

LB 1025 - LB 1050.75...Teaching (Principles and practice)

LB 1050.9 - LB 1091...Educational psychology

LB 1101-LB 1139.5...Early childhood education

LB 1140 - LB 1140.5...Preschool education, Nursery schools

LB 1141 - LB 1489...Kindergarten

LB 1501 - LB 1547...Primary education

LC 3950 - LC 4806.5...Exceptional children and youth

LC 3991 - LC 4000...Gifted children and youth

LC 4001 - LC 4806.5...Children and youth with disabilities

Search the library book catalog, linked on the Doane Library home page, using these suggested search words or any words relating to your topic, use the suggested call number ranges to browse for titles of interest, or consult the list of recommended books below. Combine that phrase with one or two specific topic words, using the word “and” to combine your two topics, for example:

Early childhood education and teacher certification
Early childhood education and learning theories
Early childhood education and parent-child relationship

How to Find Books in the Catalog

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Last Updated: 08/2021

Finding Books in the Library Catalog
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Interlibrary loan requests

Use our interlibrary loan (ILL) form to request resources from other libraries around the nation:

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