Before Christmas, the free-thinking Labour MP Frank Field published an important review of how to reduce child poverty.
Early years providers are facing a real-term cut in funding to deliver three and four-year-old places in 2015/16, amid increases to business and running costs.
Edited by Donna Berthelsen, Jo Brownlee, Eva Johansson (Routledge, 26, ISBN 9780415542999)
By Mary A Fristad, Jill S Goldberg Arnold, Jarrod M Leffler (The Guildford Press, 25.60, ISBN 9781609182014)
Edited by Daniel Le Grange and James Lock (Taylor & Francis Group, 46.95, ISBN 9781609184919)
By Yuko Yoshida (Jessica Kingsley, 12.99, ISBN 9781849053174)
by Mary Hoffman and Ros Asquith, Frances Lincoln, hardback, 11.99