"Yes! Yes! Yes! You will want to stand up and cheer when you read the authors' impassioned plea for teaching preschoolers about the world around them. We cannot afford to let pressure to develop early literacy push aside math, science, social studies and the arts. These authors show us that we don't have to.”
—Nell K. Duke,
Associated Professor,
College of Education
Michigan State University
"This excellent resource addresses the need to help teachers and administrators bring coherence and meaning to the curriculum at a time when demands for higher standards and accountability seem at odds with that goal. Well done!”
—Dorothy S. Strickland,
Samuel DeWitt Proctor Professor of Education
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey