RB23 & RB960/2
Open Sez Me: Autumn

Shirley West

This book is part of a series of 4 - one for each season - that incorporates material from festivals and celebrations around the world. Each theme covered provides sufficient material for a comprehensive and varied project linking background information with things to make, stories, poems and suggested songs.

RB9
What is a Family?
Development Education Centre

This photographs and activities pack about families in Britain was produced in response to a need identified by groups of teachers from Birmingham and Coventry as part of their work to develop the Open University 'Family Lifestyles Pack'.

RB57/1-2
Unlearning Discrimination in the Early Years
Babette Brown

This book challenges some of the preconceptions about early childhood development - for example that children cannot understand issues to do with fairness, or with skin colour or disability or homophobia - by clearly explaining relevant theory and research, and by giving examples of good practice.

RB37
African Roots in Britain
Mekada J. Alleyne

Activity book that is the first in a series designed to help you discover more about African people throughout the diaspora and their contributions to world history.

RB100
The Silent Minority
(Children with Disabilities in Asian Families)
Robina Shah

This book focuses on services for children with disabilities in Asian families. It challenges many of the stereotypes which may be held by service providers about parents' attitudes towards their child's special needs. It explores parents' awareness of the services available to help them - and their perceptions about the effectiveness of these services in meeting their needs.

RB169
Childhood: A Multicultural View
Melvin Konner

This book, written by distinguished anthropologist Melvin Konner, takes a journey through the childhood years - from conception through adolescence - and vividly shows how children of various cultures experience them, how parents and society around the globe shape them, and how science is beginning to understand them.

RB96
The Arawaks of Jamaica
Karl Phillpotts

There were people living in the Caribbean for thousands of years before Christopher Columbus "discovered" them. They were known as the Arawaks and this book gives a fascinating insight into the lives, culture and history of these aboriginal Caribbeans.

RB66
Celebrating Identity
Christine Chambers, Sue Funge, Gail Harris and Cynthia Williams

This is a resource manual designed for those working with children and young people in and outside of statutory educational provision, to help them to counter stereotypical assumptions with regard to race and colour.

RB912/2
Role Play & Drama
Chris Herald

Role play and drama provides young children with one of the best environments in which to learn. This book outlines the importance of role play and drama in the early years classroom and provides a wide range of practical activities, in both real and imaginary contexts, to enable children to explore their world.