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Reggio Children Publications
Reggio Children Publications
Books published by Reggio Children in Italy.
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NEW! Landscapes
$46.00
Double interactive cd-rom with over 90 reproductions of infant-toddler centre and preschool spaces in Reggio Emilia. 2009
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NEW! The Black Rubber Column
$19.50
2009, Infant toddler Centers and Preschools of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia, softbound, 54pp.
A work and study notebooks, Clothes for columns, is an in-depth study from the “if columns were…,” project from the
“The Wonder of Learning” exhibition. The notebook documents the final realization phase of a project carried out by children ages 5-6 at the Diana preschool. The graphics in this publication are of especially high quality due to the atelierista’s specific artistic background.
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NEW! The Park
$16.00
Coriandoli Series
The aim of Coriandoli, the new series published by Reggio Children, is to disseminate and promote the “micro-publishing” of the municipal infant-toddler centres and preschools of Reggio Emilia, a multitude of books, booklets, and other publications originally prepared for the families and designed and produced directly by teachers, atelieristas, and pedagogistas. The children and their voices, thoughts, and theories are always the protagonists. The two books that inaugurate the series both originated from the project “Città inattesa” (City inwaiting). They describe the encounter between children from infant-toddler centres and the Park in the centre of town, an exploration that generated discoveries, deep listening, thinking and re-thinking.
The first book in the new micro publishing Coriandoli Series documents a research project with the children from the Bellelli Infant-Toddler Center in their encounters in the city park.
2008, softbound, 64 pp
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NEW! We Write Shapes That Look Like a Book
$16.00
The second in the Coriandoli series
2008, 56 pages
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NEW! Browsing Through Ideas
$35.00
The Wonder of Learning Series
First in the series
A collection of wonderful ideas, microstories, children's thoughts and theories, fragments of projects: an open and engaging folder of new and different contributions of children and teachers that, with a particular narrative and iconic synthesis, keep a trace of the basic project but express new concepts that can generate enormous educational potentials, able to elicit new ideas and new proposals.
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Dialogues with Places
$35.00
Italy, 2008, Reggio Children, Illus., Hardbound, 171 pp.
Children from Reggio Emilia's early childhood centers explored the Loris Malaguzzi International Center while construction on the site was still partially underway. They chose a space that was interesting to them and designed a work, a gift conceived in harmony and in dialogue with the chosen place. From the "Dialogues with places" exhibition, the children's experiences and projects become a work-in-progress notebook.
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The Languages of Food: Recipes, experiences, thoughts
$29.00
Italy, 2007, Reggio Children, Illus., Softbound, 108 pp.
In Reggio Emila, the choice of having a kitchen in each of the infant-toddler and preschools has always conveyed a strong meaning, both pedagogical and cultural. The kitchen is a place for listening to the families and their habits, as well as for orientation toward the community, where lunchtime becomes a space and context of relationships and encounters with the world. This is the backdrop for a cookbook made up of good recipes, experiences, projects and thoughts that are constructed and take shape in and around the kitchen.
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Play + Soft
$24.50
Italy, 2005; Reggio Children. Illus. Softbound, 144 pp.
Catalog of the 200 new soft furnishings for young children produced for Play + Soft, resulting from a research project developed by twenty-eight international designers with art direction by ZPZ Partners and pedagogical consultancy by Reggio Children. Introductions by Carla Rinaldi and Vea Vecchi.
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Atelier; Furnishings for Young Children
$25.50
Italy, 2002, Reggio Children, 192 pp. Softbound
Catalog of the line of furnishing produced in Italy by ISAFF, with the consultancy of Reggio Children. Designed by Studio Zini, the line comprises a wide range of articles for infant-toddler centers, preschools, and the home. The catalog has introductions by Carla Rinaldi and Vea Vecchi and can be used as a guide on how to use furnishings in interesting and effective ways.
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In Dialogue with Reggio Emilia: Listening, Researching, and Learning
$46.95
Carlina Rinaldi, 2005. illus., softbound, 192 pp.
This book offers a collection of Carla Rinaldi's most important articles, lectures, and interviews from 1994 to the present day, organized around a number of themes and with a full introduction which contextualizes each piece of work. The topics discussed include: the thought and legacy of Loris Malaguzzi, the uniqueness of the Reggio Emilia Approach, current issues in education and the meaning of being a teacher today, the role of creativity in education, the teaching/learning relationship, participation, and assessment. Closing with an interview of Rinaldi by Peter Moss and Gunilla Dahlberg, the author discusses her current work and her reflections on Reggio's past, present, and future.
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Children, Art, Artists:
The Expressive Languages of Children, The Artistic Language of Alberto Burri
$42.50
Vea Vecchi and Claudia Giudici, editors, 2004; Reggio Children, Italy; Ilus. softbound, 160 pp.
This catalog offers a "guided tour" of the exhibit "The Expressive Languages of Children, the Artistic Language of Alberto Burri," which included works by children from the Municipal Infant-toddler center through elementary school. The exhibit explored some of the encounters between children and works of art. The didactic project, designed and coordinated by Reggio Children consultants, offered children and teachers opportunities to approach and explore different materials, as suggested by certain aspects of Burri's work. Along with the exhibit texts, the catalog includes essays discussing the relationship between schools and the city, children and art, and pedagogy and the atelier.
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Theater Curtain:
The Ring of Transformations
$47.00
Vea Vecchi, editor. 2002, Reggio Children, Italy. softbound, Ilus., 131 pp
The story of a project in which children from the Diana Preschool designed and created a new house curtain for the Ariosto Theater of Reggio Emilia.
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Along the Levee Road
$12.50
1997 (Italian version), 2002 (English version). Reggio Children, Italy; softbound, 52 pp.
The history and particular identity of the Municipal Preschool "Centro Verde Martiri di Villa Sesso" narrated by the protagonists. It recounts the history of an educational community from 1945 to 1997.
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The Future is Tomorrow and I Can Only Imagine It... I Think It's... a Lovely Day
$41.50
Municipality of Sant'Illario d'Enza; 2001. Reggio Children, Italy. Illus. softbound, 133 pp. Bilingual Italian/English version.
From a project carried out in the Fiastri and Rodari Municipal Preschools of Sant’Ilario d’Enza (Province of Reggio Emilia), a book that collects thoughts and predictions on the future by 5 and 6 year-old children.
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Making Learning Visible: Children as Individual and Group Learners
$49.00
Reggio Children, Italy, and Project Zero, 2001;
Illus. softbound, 368 pp.
To what extent is individual learning reinforced and enhanced or, on the contrary, stifled and inhibited, in a learning group? Does group learning actually exist? Can a group construct its own way of learning? To what extent can documentation foster new ways of learning? What is the relationship between documentation and assessment? These are some of the questions examined in this research project carried out from 1997 to 1999 by Harvard’s Project Zero and Reggio Children, involving teachers and pedagogistas from the Municipal infant-toddler centers and preschools of Reggio Emilia.
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Brick by Brick (first English edition)
$8.00
Reggio Children, Italy, 2000; Illus. softbound, 37 pp.
The history of the “XXV Aprile” People’s Nursery School of Villa Cella (Reggio Emilia).
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Everything Has a Shadow Except Ants (second edition)
$24.00
Reggio Children, Italy, 1999, Illus. softbound, 89 pp.
The children’s encounter with shadows is told in this book. Documents the experience and emotions of children at the Diana and Gulliver preschools as they explore this immaterial companion of our everyday lives.
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Reggio Tutta:
A Guide to the City by the Children
$49.50
Municipality of Reggio Emilia, Department of Education Infant/Toddler Centers and Preschools, Reggio Children, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 2000. Illus. softbound, 145pp.
From a survey carried out in the municipal infant/toddler centers and preschools of Reggio Emilia, a "guide" that outlines the identity of the city and develops the dimension of the children's relationship with a real or hypothetical visitor, with their suggestions on what to see and how to visit and live in Reggio Emilia. A portrait of a city made by the children, along with essays, and notes on the educational context.
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The Hundred Languages of Children (second edition, catalog)
$33.00
Reggio Children, Italy, 1996; Illus. softbound, 215 pp.,
Catalog of the exhibit “The Hundred Languages of Children”
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Advisories
$22.50
Reggio Children, Italy, 2002;
Illus. softbound, 48 pp.
The five- and six-year-old children, who are leaving the preschool for the elementary school, tell the three-year-old children about the preschool they are entering. A book by the children, teachers and parents of the "Diana" preschool. Available in Italian and English versions.
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Tenderness
$16.00
Reggio Children, Italy, 1995; Illus. softbound, 72 pp.
The story of the love and friendship of children at the Villetta preschool, as told by the children themselves.
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A Journey into the Rights of Children
$15.50
Reggio Children, Italy, 1995; Illus. softbound, 69 pp.
A discussion of the rights of children as seen by the children at the Diana preschool in Reggio Emilia.
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The Little Ones of Silent Movies
$16.00
Reggio Children, Italy, 1996; Illus. softbound, 71 pp.
A “story in four acts” of make-believe with the children and fish at the Rodari infant-toddler center retold through black and white photographs and text.
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Shoe and Meter
$21.50
Reggio Children, Italy,1997; Illus. softbound, 103 pp.
Initial approaches to the discovery, function, and use of measurement from a project carried out at the Diana preschool.
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Crossing Boundaries: Ideas and experiences in dialogue for a new culture
$33.50
Published by Edizioni Junior, Italy; 2006, softbound, 128pp. plus DVD
This book contains the proceedings of the International Conference held in Reggio Emilia in February 2004 entitled "Crossing Boundaries", promoted by the Municipality of Reggio Emilia - Istituzione Preschools and Infant-toddler Centers, Reggio Children, and the International Friends of Reggio Children Association. The Conference offered itself as an international opportunity for dialogue and exchange around themes such as the rights and potentials of children and adults, learning processes and
the school's strategic role. Includes speeches by Jerome Bruner, Howard Gardner, Peter Moss, Irene Balaguer, Aldo Masullo, Susanna Mantovani, and others. A DVD is enclosed with video-interviews of Conference speakers.
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Children, Spaces, Relations:
Metaproject for an Environment for Young Children
$54.00
Reggio Children and Domus Academy Research Center, Giulio Ceppi, Michele Zini, editors, 1998, Illus. softbound, 160 pp.
Reggio Emilia Resource
Reggio Children has initiated a line of research in conjunction with Domus Academy on designing spaces for young children.
This book is presented in three main sections:
a) A critical analysis of the cumulative experience of the municipal early childhood system of Reggio Emilia, with the aim of formulating general criteria of quality and presenting possible scenarios, using keywords and metaphors in an attempt to identify the desirable characteristics of a space for young children.
b) Reflections on the tools of design, with indications regarding both the distribution of space and the "soft qualities" (light, color, materials, smell, sound, microclimate). The objective is to provide tools of analysis and practical indications for both the interior and exterior design of infant-toddler centers and schools for young children.
c) Essays discussing the pedagogical and architecture/design issues that form the theoretical basis of the research.
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Reflections on the Reggio Emilia Approach
$20.00
Lilian G. Katz and Bernard Cesarone, editors, 1994, Softbound, 144 pp.
In what ways can our growing knowledge of the preschools in Reggio Emilia contribute to improving early childhood education in America? In what ways can we learn from the experience of preschools in Reggio Emilia? This new publication features seven papers that address these questions.
"Images from the World" by Lilian Katz
"Images from the United States" by Brenda Fyfe
"Reggio Emilia: Its Visions and Challenges for Educators" by Rebecca New
"Different Media, Different Languages" by George Forman
"Staff Development in Reggio Emilia" by Carlina Rinaldi
"An Integrated Art Approach in a Preschool" by Giordana Rabitti
"Promoting Collaborative Learning in the Early Childhood Classroom"
by Carolyn Edwards, Lella Gandini, and John Nimmo
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Remida Day
$33.00
Edited by AGAC, Friends of Reggio Children Association, Muncipal Infant-toddler Centers and Preschools of Reggio Emila, REMIDA, Italy, 2004, Illus. hardbound, 92pp.
A book that describes the first four editions of the REMIDA DAY initiative dedicated to recycling, based on the experience of the Remida Creative
Recycling Center. Sixteen events designed to support the culture of creative recycling and promote ethical behavior that opposes the "throw away"culture are described and beautifully illustrated.
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Not Just Anyplace
$70.00
DVD, 72 minutes.
The first video entirely dedicated to the almost century-long history of the Municipal Infant-Toddler Centers and Preschools of Reggio Emilia. Also includes interviews with administrators, politicians, pedagogistas, teachers, atelieristas. Historical research, script direction: Michele Fasano. Production: Reggio Children. Co-production: International Association Friends of Reggio Children, Emilia-Romagna Region, Municipality of Reggio Emilia.
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A Message from Loris Malaguzzi
$40.50
VHS video, 64 minutes
In honor of the work of Loris Malaguzzi, who was interviewed by Lella Gandini in 1992 at the Villetta preschool and talks about projects, symbolic languages, and cooperation among children. Also includes Malaguzzi’s acceptance speech for the KOHL award in Chicago, 1993.
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To Make a Portrait of a Lion
DISCONTINUED
VHS video, 32 minutes
A record of an extended project by children in the Villetta preschool in which they make a portrait of one of the large marble lions in San Prospero Square in Reggio Emilia.
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NEW! DVD Format
An Amusement Park for Birds:
Documentation of a Long - Term Project from Reggio Emilia
$70.00
Narrated by George Forman and Lella Gandini
“An Amusement Park for Birds”, a behind the scenes look at a long term project in which children designed and built an outdoor amusement park for birds in their playground, has just been released in DVD. The DVD format adds a menu that divides the original 90 minute video presentation into 21, short, easily accessible sections, e.g. “Timescape,” “From Drawing to Clay,” and “Using Documentation.”
(A Reggio Emilia resource)
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