An Inclusive Early Childhood
Development Program
Resources
General
Bloomfield, Anne, et al. Teaching Integrated Arts in the Primary School: Dance, Drama, Music and the Visual Arts. David Fulton Publishers, May 2000.
Burton, Leon. Artsplay: Creative Activites in Art, Music, Dance, and Drama for Young Children (With Record). Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1981.
Edwards, Linda Carol. The Creative Arts: A Process Approach for Teachers and Children. Prentice Hall, 1996.
Froschl, Merle, et al. Including All of Us: An Early Childhood Curriculum About Disability, Developed by Project Inclusive. Educational Equity Concepts, Inc., 1984.
Multi-Arts Resource Guide and companion videos
VSA arts of Massachusetts
China Trade Center, 2 Boylston Street, 2nd Floor, Boston, MA 02116
Phone: (617) 350-7713 Fax: (617) 482-4298 TTY: (617) 350-6836
e-mail: vsamass@aol.com
“The Creative Arts Therapies” (catalogue)
MMB Music, Inc.
Contemporary Arts Building, 3526 Washington Avenue, Saint Louis, MO 63103-1019
Phone: (800) 543-3771 Fax: (314) 531-8384
e-mail: mmbmusic@mmbmusic.com
Website: www.mmbmusic.com
“Davis Art Education Materials” (catalogue)
Davis Publications, Inc.
50 Portland Street, Worcester, MA 01608
Phone: (800) 533-2847 Fax: (508) 753-3834
Website: www.davis-art.com
“Enabling Devices: Toys for Special Children” (catalogue)
Enabling Devices
385 Warburton Avenue, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706
Phone: (800) 832-8697 Fax: (914) 478-0960
e-mail: customer_support@enablingdevices.com
Website: www.enablingdevices.com
“Kaplan: Concepts for Exceptional Children” (catalogue)
Kaplan
P.O. Box 609, Lewisville, NC 27023-0609
Phone: (800) 334-2014 Fax: (800) 452-7526
e-mail: info@kaplanco.com
Website: www.kaplanco.com
Lipson, Eden Ross. The New York Times Parent’s Guide to the Best Books for Children (Third Edition). Three Rivers Press, 2000.
Odean, Kathleen. Great Books for Girls: More Than 600 Books to Inspire Today’s Girls and Tomorrow’s Women. Ballantine Books, 1997.
Rivlin, Holly and Michael Cavanaugh. The Barnes and Noble Guide to Children’s Books. Edited by John Freeman and Brenn Jones. Barnes and Noble Books, 2000.
Cook, Ande. Art Starters: 50 Nifty Thrifty Art Activities. Davis Publications Inc., 1997.
Diehn, Gwen. Making Books That Fly, Fold, Wrap, Hide, Pop Up, Twist, and Turn. Lark Books, 1998.
Kong, Ellen. The Great Clay Adventure: Creative Handbuilding Projects for Young Artists. Davis Publications Inc., 2000.
LaPlantz, Shereen. Cover to Cover: Creative Techniques for Making Beautiful Books, Journals & Albums. Lark Books, 1995.
Monaghan, Kathleen and Hermon Joyner. You Can Weave! Projects for Young Weavers. Davis Publications Inc., 2000.
Tejada, Irene. Brown Bag Ideas from Many Cultures. Davis Publications Inc., 1993.
Topal, Cathy Weisman and Lella Gandini. Beautiful Stuff! Learning with Found Materials. Davis Publications Inc., 1999.
Topal, Cathy Weisman. Children, Clay and Sculpture. Davis Publications Inc., 1983.
Topal, Cathy Weisman. Children and Painting. Davis Publications Inc., 1992.
Bauer, Caroline Feller. Leading Kids to Books Through Puppets. Illus. by Richard Laurent. American Library Association, 1997.
Brown, Victoria, et al. The Dramatic Difference: Drama in the Pre-School and Kindergarten Classroom. Heinemann, 1999.
Frazier, Nancy, et al. Imagination at Play With Puppets and Creative Drama. Nancy Renfro Studios, 1987.
Henson, Cheryl and the Muppet Workshop. The Muppets Make Puppets!: How to Create and Operate Over 35 Great Puppets Using Stuff from Around Your House. Illus. by David Cain. Photos by John E. Barrett. Workman Publishing, 1994.
Hunt, Tamara and Nancy Renfro. Puppetry in Early Childhood Education. Nancy Renfro Studios, 1982.
McCurrach, Ian, et al. Special Talents, Special Needs: Drama for People with Learning Disabilities. Jessica Kingsley Publications, 1999.
Merrion, Margaret, et al. Creative Drama and Music Methods: Introductory Activities for Children. Linnet Professional Publications, 1996.
Renfro, Nancy. Puppet Shows Made Easy. Nancy Renfro Studios, 1984.
Renfro, Nancy. Puppetry, Language and the Special Child. Nancy Renfro Studios, 1984.
Wallace, Mary. I Can Make Puppets. Greey de Pencier Books, 1994.
Barlin, Anne. Hello Toes! Movement Games for Children, Ages 1-5. Learning Through Movement, 1990.
Barlin, Anne. Teaching Your Wings to Fly. Scott Foresman & Co., 1979.
Forbes, Harriet H. Creative Movement for 3 – 5-Year-Olds. First Step Press, 1998.
Joyce, Mary, et al. First Steps in Teaching Creative Dance to Children. Maryfield Publishing Company, 1993.
Kalev, Nurit. Goodnight Toes: Bedtime Stories, Lullabies, and Movement Games. Princeton Book Co. Pub., 1993.
Kuklin, Susan. Dance! With Bill T. Jones. Hyperion Books, 1998.
Mettler, Barbara. Children’s Creative Dance Book. Mettler Studio, 1970.
Mettler, Barbara. Creative Dance in Kindergarten. Mettler Studio, 1976.
Rooyackers, Paul, et al. 101 Dance Games for Children: Fun and Creativity With Movement (Hunter House Smartfun Book). Hunter House, 1996.
Thompson, Myra A. Jump for Joy!: Over 375 Creative Movement Activities for Young Children. Prentice Hall Trade, 1993.
Banek, Reinhold and Scoville, Jon. Sound Designs. Ten Speed Press, 1995.
Debeer, Sara. Open Ears: Creative Adventures in Music and Sound. Ellipsis Arts, 1995.
Havighurst, Jay. Making Musical Instruments by Hand. Rockport Publisher, 1998.
Hopkin, Bart. Making Simple Musical Instruments. Altamont Press, 1995.
Kline, Dallas. How to Play Nearly Everything From Bones and Spoons to the Washtub Bass. Music Sales Corp., 1998.
Nelson, Mark. You Can Teach Yourself to Make Music With Homemade Instruments. Mel Bay, 1995.
Reid, Rob. Children’s Jukebox: A Subject Guide to Musical Recordings and Programming Ideas for Songsters Ages One to Twelve. American Library Association, 1995.
Schaberg, Gail. Tips: Teaching Music to Special Learners. Music Educators National Conference, 1988.
Waring, Dennis. Making Wood Folk Instruments. Sterling Publishing, 1990.
Wiseman, Ann. Making Musical Things: Improvised Instruments. Charles Scribner, 1979.
Baby Einstein (series) available on video, CD or DVD
The Baby Einstein Company
9285 Teddy Lane, Suite 200, Lone Tree, CO 80124
Phone: (800) 793-1454
Website: www.babyeinstein.com
Usborne’s “First Thousand Words: In English and Spanish.” Scholastic, Inc., 1997.
“The Mozart Effect for Children: Volumes 1, 2 and 3” available as audio recordings
The Children’s Group, Inc.
1400 Bayly Street, Suite 7, Pickering, Ontario, L1W3R2, Canada
Phone: (800) 668-0242 Fax: (905) 831-1142
e-mail: lsummers@childrensgroup.com
Website: www.childrensgroup.com
Please visit our Web site for over 1200 internet links to arts and education resources at www.vsarts.org
American Alliance for Theatre and Education: www.aate.com
American Sign Language Browser: www.commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm
Barahona Center for the study of Books in Spanish for Children: www.csusm.edu/csbs
Center for Cultural Fluency: www.msmc.la.edu/ccf/IR.gradesk-3.html
Center for New Discoveries in Learning: www.howtolearn.com
Children’s Music at Mabel’s: www.mabels.com/child.html
Children’s Music in the United Kingdom: www.childrensmusic.co.uk
Children’s Music Network: www.cmnonline.org
Children’s Music Web: www.childrensmusic.org
Crayola: www.crayola.com
CyberDance - Ballet on the Net: www.cyberdance.org
Deaf.com - Your Gateway to the Deaf Community: www.deaf.com
Disney: www.disney.go.com
Getty’s Art Education Website: www.getty.edu/education
Goldenbooks: www.goldenbooks.com
Handspeak: A Sign Language Dictionary Online: www.handspeak.com
Houghton Mifflin’s Education Place: www.eduplace.com
Incredible Art Department: www.artswire.org
KidBiz: www.kidbiz.com
KIDiddles: www.kididdles.com
KidzPage: www.veeceet.com
KidzSing Garden of Songs: www.gardenofsong.com
Legends and Lore -The Puppets Everything Place: www.legendsandlore.com
Mama Lisa’s World: www.mamalisa.com
National Art Education Association: www.naea-reston.org
National Association for the Education of Young Children: www.naeyc.org
National Theatre of the Deaf: www.ntd.org
PBS: www.pbskids.org/totstv/english/puppets.html
Puppeteers of America: www.puppeteers.org
Sagecraft Productions - The Puppetry Home Page: www.sagecraft.com/puppetry
Scholastic Books: www.scholastic.com
Smithsonian Institute Folk Music: www.si.edu/folkways
Spanish Booksellers: www.spanishbooksellers.com
Children’s Music Network
P.O. Box 1341
Evanston, IL 60204-1341
Phone: (847) 733-8003
e-mail: office@cmnonline.org
Website: www.cmnonline.org
Newsletter: “Pass It On”
The Council for Exceptional Children
1110 North Glebe Road, Suite 300
Arlington, VA 22201-5704
Phone: (888) CEC-SPED Fax: (703) 264-9494
TTY: (703) 264-9446
Website: www.cec.sped.org
Early Childhood Music and Movement Association
10691 Livingston Drive
Northglenn, CO 80234
Phone: (303) 457-8986
Website: www.ecmma.org
National Art Education Association
1916 Association Drive
Reston, VA 20191-1590
Phone: (703) 860-8000 Fax: (703) 860-2960
e-mail: naea@dgs.dgsys.com
Website: www.naea-reston.org
National Association for the Education of Young Children
1509 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036-1426
Phone: (800) 424-2460 Fax: (202) 328-1846
Website: www.naeyc.org
NAEA/CEA Special Interest Group for Teachers of the Arts
c/o Dr. Beverly Gerber
Department of Special Education
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, CT 06515
Newsletter: “Learning Throught the Arts - A Newsletter for Special Education Teachers of the Arts”
National Education Association
1201 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 833-4000
Website: www.nea.orga
Sources for Recorded Music
A Gentle Wind: Songs and Stories for Children
P.O. Box 3103, Albany, NY 12203
Phone: (800) FUN-SONG
e-mail: hello@gentlewind.com
Website: www.gentlewind.com
American Melody
P.O. Box 270, Guilford, CT 06437
Phone: (203) 457-0881 Fax: (203) 457-2085
e-mail: ammelody@earthlink.net
Website: www.americanmelody.com
Music Design
4650 North Port Washington Road, Milwaukee, WI 53212-1062
Phone: (800) 862-7232 Fax: (414) 961-8381
e-mail: order@musicdesign.com
Website: www.musicdesign.com
New Sound Music (a division of Allegro Corporation)
81 Demerritt Place, Waterbury, VT 05676
Phone: (800) 342-0295 Fax: (800) 495-7045
e-mail: sales@newsoundmusic.com
Website: www.allegro-music.com
Rounder Kids (a division of Rounder Records Corporation)
P.O. Box 516, Montpelier, VT 05601
Phone: (800) 223-6357 Fax: (802) 223-5303
e-mail: buy@rounderkids.com
Website: www.rounder.com
Self-Produced Children’s Singer/Songwriters
Jim Gill
Phone: (708) 763-9864 Fax: (708) 763-9888
Website: www.jimgill.com
Kathy Lowe
Phone: (603) 526-6152
Website: www.woodshades.com/KathyLowe
Kim Wallach
Phone: (603) 827-5588
e-mail: kimwallach@monad.net
Purly Gates
Website: www.purlygates.com
