This is a very small list, there are so many great books. Each book listed will also have a wonderful resource section too (Beyond the Rainbow Bridge, an excellent first book, has a very extensive resource section - by the way, participants of a Sweet Peas class will receive a complimentary copy of this book). Many of these books listed below are in our parent library available for check-out to parents of enrolled children.
Waldorf Education: A Family Guide, Pamela Johnson Fenner and Karen L. Rivers, editors
Beyond the Rainbow Bridge: Nurturing Our Children from Birth to Seven, Barbara J. Patterson and Pamela Bradley
Understanding Waldorf Education: Teaching from the Inside Out, and, Covering Home: Lessons on the Art of Fathering from the Game of Baseball, Jack Petrash
You Are Your Child's First Teacher, Rahima Baldwin Dancy
Waldorf Parenting Handbook, Linda Cusick
Seven Times the Sun: Guiding Your Child Through the Rhythms of the Day, Shea Darian
The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon, and Miseducation: Preschoolers at Risk, David Elkind
The Incarnating Child, Joan Salter
School As a Journey: The Eight-Year Odyssey of a Waldorf Teacher and His Class, Torin Finser (the grade school years)
The Singing Day, Candy Verney (a book with CD full of little songs to help make smooth transitions throughout the day)
The Plug-In Drug, and, Unplugging the Plug-In Drug, Marie Winn
Endangered Minds: Why Children Don't Think & What We Can Do About It, and Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children's Minds For Better or Worse, Jane Healy
What to Do After You Turn Off the TV, Francis Moore Lappe and family
The Biology of Transcendence, Joseph Chilton Pearce
The Children of Cyclops: The Influence of Television Viewing on the Developing Human Brain, Keith Buzzell
Who's Bringing Them Up? How to Break the TV Habit, Martin Large
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, Jerry Mander
Sesame Street Revisited, Russel Sage Foundation, New York
Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman
www.tvturnoff.org
www.wholehumanbeans.com
Toymaking with Children, Freya Jaffke, lots of large (playstands, etc.) and small toys (dolls, knitted animals, carved figures, etc.)
Kids Knitting: Projects for Kids of All Ages, Melanie Falick
The Children's Year, Stephanie Cooper, et al
Feltcraft: Making Dolls, Gifts and Toys, Petra Berger
Feltmaking, Chad Alice Hagen (how to make felt and felted items from unspun wool)
Making Dolls, Sunnhild Reinckens
Painting with Children, Brunhild Muller (wet on wet watercoloring)