Books written by William Crain

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  Reclaiming Childhood: Letting Children Be Children in Our Achievement-Oriented Society

  Impersonal forces govern drawing: H. Gardner 1980, 33. “Never seen hands coming from the head”: Golomb I973, 222. “The Golden Period": H. Gardner I980. 99. The Klee reproduction is from the Paul Klee Foundation, Berne.

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  Theories of Development: Concepts and Applications

  Belsky, J., & Fearon, R. M. P. (2008). Precursors of attachment security. In J. Cassidy & P. R. Shaver (Eds.), Handbook of attachment (2nd ed.). New York: Guilford. ... Boston: Pearson. Berk, L.E. & Winsler, A. (1995).

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  Reclaiming Childhood: Letting Children Be Children in Our Achievement-Oriented Society

  In Reclaiming Childhood, William C. Crain argues that rather than trying to control a young child, the best a parent can offer is "a patient and unobtrusive presence that gives the child the security and the freedom to explore the world on ...

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  Forever Young: How Six Great Individuals Have Drawn Upon the Powers of Childhood and How We Can Follow Their Lead

  Forever young How Six Great Individuals Have Drawn upon the Powers of Childhood and How We Can Follow Their Lead Forever Young Forever Young How Six Great Individuals Have Drawn. WILLIAM CRAIN Front cover.

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  Theories of Development: Concepts and Applications

  Cognitive development: Its cultural and social foundations (M. Lopez-Morillas & L. Solotaroff, trans.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Luria, A. R. (1981). Language and cognition. (J. Wertsch, ed.). New York: John Wiley.

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  Forever Young: How Six Great Individuals Have Drawn upon the Powers of Childhood and How We Can Follow Their Lead

  Following these inspiring stories, Crain also offers practical suggestions for how we too can reclaim the spirit and strengths of childhood to help us uncover meaning and purpose in our own lives.

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  The Emotional Lives of Animals & Children: Insights from a Farm Sanctuary

  This is the view that there is a special wisdom in the child’s ways of knowing.

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  Theories of Development: Concepts and Applications

  Emphasizing the theories that build upon the developmental tradition established by Rousseau, this text also covers theories in the environmental/learning tradition.

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  Reclaiming Childhood: Letting Children Be Children in Our Achievement-Oriented Society

  In Reclaiming Childhood, William Crain argues that rather than trying to control a young child, the best a parent can offer is "a patient and unobtrusive presence that gives the child the security and the freedom to explore the world on her ...

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  Animal Stories: Lives at a Farm Sanctuary

  This book is a collection of short, easy-to-read, and moving stories about rescued farmed animals who have found a loving, lifelong home at Safe Haven Farm Sanctuary.