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Viv Hampshire recreates the setting of picture book Dear Zoo in a local park so a group of children can learn about animals and their habitats.
These days the nursery teddy bears are more likely to be writing blogs than going down to the woods, say Asma Parveen and Jackie Marsh.
Requiring only simple materials, block play nevertheless gives children the power to bring imaginary worlds to life. Michael Follett suggests handing over creative control.
Music for babies and toddlers, by Anna Corballis Fry
Can you make a buggy or trolley that can move and can carry one child?
We expect young children to learn moral behaviour, but does it come naturally to them? Penny Tassoni looks at theories of development and good practice in the nursery
Look Out, Suzy Goose by Petr Horacek, Walker Books, hardback, 10.99
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Research linking them with preventing cot death has put the use of babies' dummies back under scrutiny. Annette Rawstrone hears both sides of the debate.
Kicking off a new series exploring the revised Development Matters guidance, Dr Julian Grenier looks at the first two key features of effective practice within the document: ‘The best for every child’...