By Tina Bruce, Carolyn Meggitt and Julian Grenier (Hodder Education, 29.99, ISBN 978-1-444-11798-1)
A best-selling team of authors, with experience ranging from teaching to practice and policy development to research, have come together to update this textbook, ideal for studying childcare at Level 3, now in its fifth revised edition. It is a colourful, user-friendly book full of case studies, tips and diagrams.