“Must Read”

Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder,
Richard Louv, (2008) Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
This is the seminal book of the Children and Nature movement.  Informative, moving, inspiring and impressively and convincingly researched. 

The Sense of Wonder by Rachel Carson (text 1956,) reissued with photographs by Nick Kelsh in 1998. HarperCollins
Carson urges us to explore the wonders of nature with our children:  “…to explore nature with feelings and emotions, to use of all our senses, and to abandon the impulse to teach or explain.” 
As Carson explains, “Once the emotions have been aroused, then we wish for knowledge about the object of our emotional response.  It is more important to pave the way for the child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts he is not ready to assimilate. Don’t hesitate to share the wonder with your child.”

The Dream of the Earth, Thomas Berry, (l990) Sierra Club Books, San Francisco. 

The Ecology of Imagination in Childhood, Edith Cobb, (l977) Spring Publications, Dallas.
 
Listening to Nature, also Sharing Nature with Children, and Sharing Nature with Children II, Joseph Cornell, (1987) Dawn Publications

How Children Learn through Play, Dorothy Einon (2004) Barron’s Educational Series

The Hurried Child David Elkind, (1998) (revised edition), Perseus Books, Reading, Mass.

Childhood and Society, Erik Erikson, (l963)W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. New York.  
     
Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman, (l995)Bantam Books, New York.

The Growth of the Mind, Stanley Greenspan M.D. (l997) Addison-Wesley. Reading, Mass.

Children and Nature: Psychological. Sociocultural, and Evolutionary Investigations, Peter Kahn and Stephen Kellert (editors), MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.

Magical Child  Joseph Chilton Pearce, (l977), Penguin Group, New York. 

Your Baby's Mind and How It Grows: Piaget's Theory for Parents, Pulaski, Mary Ann Spencer, Ph.D.  (l978) Harper & Row, New York

The Voice of the Earth, Theodore Roszak, (l992)Simon and Schuster, New York.

A Brief History of Everything, Ken Wilber, (l996) Shambhala, Boston & London