Recommended Reading

Many of these titles are available at the school library or your local public library. Those marked with an asterisk are available from Anthroposophic Press. Contact information for this and other publishers can be found on our Links page.

Festivals
• Celebrating the Festivals with Children by Friedel Lenz (IBP, SG)
• The Children’s Year by Cooper, Fynes-Clinton and Rowling (IBP, SG)
• The Cycle of the Year by Rudolf Steiner (AP)
• Festivals Together by Sue Fitzjohn, et al. (multicultural)
• Festivals magazine provides many suggestions for family celebrations of religious and other festivals. Available from Resource Publications, 160 E. Virginia St., San Jose, CA 95112
• The First Jewish Catalog, Richard Siegal, et al.
• Lifeways by Gudrun Davy and Bons Voors
• The Nature Corner by Leeuwen and Moeskops

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Television and Children
• Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman (NY: Viking, 1985)
• Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander (NY: Wm. Morrow)
• The Plug-In Drug by Marie Winn (NY: Viking, 1985)
• Unplugging the Plug-In Drug by Marie Winn (NY: Viking/ Penguin)
• Who’s Bringing Them Up? by Martin Large (Gloucester, UK: Hawthorn Press) *

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Recommended Books Related to Waldorf Kindergarten
• How Children Play by Ingeborg Haller (Floris Books, 1987) *
• Millennial Child by Eugene Schwartz (SteinerBooks, 1999) *
• Work and Play in Early Childhood by Freya Jaffke (Anthroposophic Press, 1991) *
• You are Your Child’s First Teacher by Rahima Baldwin Dancy (Celestial Arts, 1989) *

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Child Development
• Childhood: A Study of the Growing Child by Caroline von Heydebrand (Anthroposophic Press, 1995) *
• Children and their Temperaments by Marieke Anshutz (Floris Books, 1995) *
• Endangered Minds by Dr. Jane Healy
• Magical Child by Joseph Chilton Pearce (P1ume, 1977)
• Phases of Childhood by Bernard Lievegood (Anthroposophic Press, 1997) *
• The Recovery of Man in Childhood by A. C. Harwood (Myrin Book, 1958) *

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School Readiness
• Better Late than Early by Raymond and Dorothy Moore, et al.
• The Hurried Child by David Elkind
• Miseducation by David Elkind
• “Pupil Age at School Entrance—How Many are Ready for Success?” by James K. Uphoff and June Gilmore. Authorized copies available from the Waldorf Kindergarten Association, 9500 Brunett Street, Silver Spring, MD 20901.
• School Can Wait by Raymond and Dorothy Moore
• You are Your Child’s First Teacher by Rahima Baldwin Dancy (Celestial Arts, 1989)
• Your Five Year Old by llg and Ames (and other volumes on the six-and seven-year-old; from the Gesell Institute)

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Waldorf Education in the Grades
• An Introduction to Waldorf Education by Rudolf Steiner (IBP) *
• Creativity in Education: The Waldorf Approach by Rene Querido (SG) *
• Education Towards Freedom by Franis Carlgren *
• Rudolf Steiner Education by L. Francis Edmunds (SG) *
• Rudolf Steiner Waldorf Education by Brien Masters, Ed. (IBP) *
• School as a Journey by Torin Finser (Anthroposophic Press, 1994).*
• The Recovery of Man in Childhood by A.C. Harwood (Myrin Books, 1958) *
• Waldorf Education—A Family Guide edited by Pamela Johnson Fenner and Karen L. Rivers. (Michaelmas Press, 1992) *

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