• The winners of the Early Childhood News Directors' Choice Awards were selected by a panel of six judges whose combined experience in teaching, management, and research represented over 100 years of working with children.

• A Parent's Guide Award honors outstanding achievement in parenting material. A new publication, Parent's Guide, will include reviews of the 1998 awards.

These two awards show that The Parents' & Teachers' Guide to Helping Young Children Learn is valued by both early childhood educators and parents. The book is being used as a resource for curriculum ideas in early childhood programs, staff training, parent training, parenting libraries, and as a college text.

In this 350 page book, distinguished experts present the very best in information and ideas to promote learning, language, literacy, and creativity -- as well as math, science, and the arts. Imaginative experiences are suggested in every chapter, and calendars and charts offer activities in reading, gardening, music, and nursery rhymes for each day of the month. Resource lists at the end of each section are useful in finding books for children and adults on the topic discussed.

The 35 respected experts who contributed to this volume include: Dr. Thomas Armstrong, author of Awakening Your Child's Natural Genius, Dr. Ellin Greene, author of Read Me A Story: Books and Techniques for Reading Aloud and Storytelling, and Dr. Barbara Baskin, Emerita Director of Child and Family Studies, State University of New York at Stony Brook, along with 32 other distinguished authorities.

In her foreword, Dr. Nancy Balaban, Director, Infant and Parent Development and Early Intervention Program, Graduate School of Education, Bank Street College, New York City, states, "On every page there are treasures: information, ideas, resources that will enhance your daily lives with children.... Nothing has been left out of this 'encyclopedia' of ideas."

We think you will agree with the educators and parents who have called The Parents' & Teachers' Guide to Helping Young Children Learn "extraordinary," "an excellent resource" with articles that are "readable, concise, and full of ideas."

Preschool Publications has been publishing materials on early childhood topics for parents and teachers since 1986. Editor, Betty Farber, has been an early childhood specialist for over 30 years.

For more information, contact:

Betty Farber
Preschool Publications, Inc.
1.800.726.1708
preschoolpub@hamptons.co
http://www.northfork.com/preschoolpub