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1 Crossing the Border: A Community Negotiates the Transition from Early Childhood to Primary School by Carol Hartley, Pat Rodgers, Jemma Smith, Sally Peters and Margaret Carr
2 Insights from the Playgroup Movement: Equality and Autonomy in a Voluntary Organisation by Ann Henderson (Editor)
3 What’s Happening To Our Boys? by Maggie Hamilton
4 All You Need to Know About Action Research by Jean McNiff and Jack Whitehead
5 Be Brave by Karen Rochester
6 Smart Parenting for Safer Kids by Freda Briggs
7 Leading to Reading – The Easy Way by Barbara Morris
8 Turning Trash into Treasure by Adam Buckingham
9 Young Children's Behaviour, Practical Approaches by Louise Porter
10 The Excellence of Play by Janet Moyles (Editor)
11 Understanding Early Childhood Issues and Controversies by Helen Penn
12 Learning from Sure Start: Working with Young Children & their Families by Jo Weinberger et al (Eds)
13 Critical Issues in Early Childhood Education by Nicola Yelland (Editor)
14 What is Research? Methodological Practices and New Approaches by Jeanette Rhedding-Jones
15 Rethinking Parent and Child Conflict by Susan Grieshaber
16 Birth to Three Matters: Supporting the Framework of Effective Practice by Lesley Abbott and Ann Langston (eds)
17 The NZ Early Childhood Literacy Handbook by Judy Hamer & Paul Adams
18 A City Possessed The Christchurch Civic Creche Case by Lynley Hood
19 Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education & Care Postmodern Perspectives by Gunilla Dahlberg, Peter Moss & Alan Pence
 
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