education & parenting books


Creative Play for Your Baby

Encourage your child’s creativity, awareness, confidence and imagination through play. This book focuses on different elements of the young child’s development from 3 months to 2 years, and includes an excellent summary of Steiner theory and how it relates to children & parents today. Over 20 instructions for making your own toys using natural materials.£12.99
Creative Play for Your Baby


You Are Your Child's First Teacher

Rahima Baldwin Darcy
An American classic finally reprinted in the Subtitled 'what parents can do with and for their children from birth to age six', Rahima covers every aspect of parenting a young child - from pregnancy up to school readiness. She brings together the timeless wisdom of Rudolf Steiner, modern day dilemmas, up to date research on child development and practical, compassionate, non-judgemental advice.£14.99
You Are Your Child's First Teacher

Storytelling with Children

Nancy Mellon
Telling stories creates special times with children, wether it is bedtime, round the fire or on rainy days. Encouraging you to spin golden tales, Nancy Mellon shows how you can become a confident storyteller.£9.99
Storytelling with Children

The Well Balanced Child - Movement and Early Learning

Sally Goddard Blythe
Children today are more sedentary than any previous generation. Deprived of the crucial opportunities for exercising the body and the senses which prime the brain for learning in the early years, many children are, literally, unfit to learn. This is a passionate 'whole body' approach to learning. An inspiring book that enables parents and educators to help children attain their full potential.£12.99
The Well Balanced Child - Movement and Early Learning

Free To Learn - Introducing Steiner Waldorf Early Childhood Education

Lynne Oldfield
A unique guide to the principles and methods of Steiner Waldorf early childhood education. This authoritative introduction draws on kindergarten experience from around the world, with stories, helpful insights, lively observations and pictures. An inspiring book for any parent or educator interested in Steiner Waldorf education for the early years.£11.99
Free To Learn - Introducing Steiner Waldorf Early Childhood Education


The Genius of Play - Celebrating the Spirit of Childhood

Sally Jenkinson
This book addresses what play is, why it matters, and how modern life endangers children's play. A fascinating book full of stories and research. A moving and thoroughly convincing plea for free, self-initiated play. "Shows how play deprivation is a threat to our well-being ... This is essential reading."C Clouder.£11.99
The Genius of Play - Celebrating the Spirit of Childhood

Ready to Learn - from Birth to School Readiness

M Rawson and M Rose
When are children ready for school? Many parents are concerned about 'hot housing' their children and about "too much formal school too soon". This book is about the way young children learn and how best they can develop and realise their potential.£10.99
Ready to Learn - from Birth to School Readiness

Parenting a Path Through Childhood

Helps parents gain a deeper understanding of parenting from both a practical and holistic, spiritual perspective.£5.99
Parenting a Path Through Childhood

Phases of Childhood

Bernard Lievegoed argues, children can become happy, wise and skilled adults only when education takes the development of the body, soul, and spirit into account. He describes the three main stages of child development and shows that each stage of roughly seven years has its own character, and its own genetic and biographical potential.

£9.99
Phases of Childhood

The Wisdom Of Fairy Tales

The author rediscovers the lost meaning of these stories and shows how they can have a profound positive influence on the developing mind of the child. Telling fairy tales to children today gives a spiritual nourishment which later in life can be a source of ideals and imaginative creative thinking.£9.99
The Wisdom Of Fairy Tales

Set Free Childhood

Martin Large
Highly recommended and well researched book on the actual effects of television viewing on the child. Covers physical hazards (to brain and eyes), social hazards, and cognitive/learning problems caused by television viewing. Makes absolutely essential reading! Provides help for parents to counter screen culture and create a calmer and more enjoyable family life.£10.99
Set Free Childhood


Homemaking as a Social Art - Creating a Home for Body, Soul and Spirit

Veronika van Duin
Taking a spiritual perspective inspired by Rudolf Steiner's work, van Duin shows that homemaking is at the centre of our social existence. Its role is nothing less that a social art, and homemaking needs to be consciously formulated if we are to develop happy, contented family and home lives. A very valuable book.£11.95
Homemaking as a Social Art - Creating a Home for Body, Soul and Spirit

Steiner Education

Francis Edmunds
To educate youth is to ennoble the mind, to fire the imagination, to fortify the will and to quicken initiative for life. A clear and lively explanation of many aspects of Steiner educational theory, in particular the 3 stages of childhood development and how the Waldorf schools curriculum allows for a healthy understanding, nurturing and support of these phases.£8.95
Steiner Education

Waldorf Education

Rudolf Steiner’s ideas in practice. A basic introduction to the Steiner/Waldorf School and Steiner/Waldorf educational philosophy.£7.99
Waldorf Education

Steiner Education in Theory and Practice

Describes Steiner’s view of the child as a developing personality based on body, soul and spirit, and gives a detailed account of the Steiner/Waldorf school curriculum and teaching methods.£14.99
Steiner Education in Theory and Practice

Understanding Waldorf Education

Jack Petrash
A jargon-free overview of Waldorf education and its philosophy of the importance of a three-dimensional education. Focusing on the learning experiences that develop thought, feeling, and purposeful activity. Ideal for Waldorf parents.£9.99
Understanding Waldorf Education

Rudolf Steiner his Life and Work

Gilbert Childs
A concise illustrated introduction to Steiner's life and work.£7.99
Rudolf Steiner his Life and Work

The Incarnating Child

Joan Salter follows the soul life of tiny babies into childhood and adolescence. A specialist in maternal and child care, she addresses physical, spiritual and psychological development as well as environmental factors.£8.99
The Incarnating Child

Lifeways

Working with Family Questions. Lifeways is about children, about family life and about being a parent. But above all it is about freedom, and how the tension between family life and personal fulfilment can be resolved.£12.99
Lifeways