Amazing Animal Art Projects, Grades 1-3. Jo Lynn Alcorn, $16.99

20 easy step-by-step paper projects that connect to seasonal and science topics.

Art Ideas. Fiona Watt, et al, $24.95

This beautiful, inspiring book teaches you how use different kinds of paint, pastels, inks, crayons and other medium like tissue paper, glue and salt, to create fabulous and fun art with children.

ART with Anything. MaryAnn Kohl, $24.95 (ages 4-10)

52 weeks of fun using everyday stuff, easy-to-find everyday materials and lots of imagination!

Artful Teaching: Integrating the Arts and Understanding Across the Curriculum, K-8. David Donahue & Jennifer Stuart, $27.50

The authors in this volume share exemplary arts-integration practices across the K–8 curriculum. Rather than providing formulas or scripts to be followed, they carefully describe how the arts provide an entry point for gaining insight into why and how students learn. The book includes rich and lively examples of public school teachers integrating visual arts, music, drama, and dance with subject matter, including English, social studies, science, and mathematics.

Creating Drama with 4-7 Year Olds: Lesson Ideas to Integrate Drama into the Primary Curriculum. Miles Tandy & Jo Howell, $41.95

Creating Drama with 7-11 Year Olds: Lesson Ideas to Integrate Drama into the Primary Curriculum. Miles Tandy & Jo Howell, $43.95

These practical books give you all the ideas you need to make drama a regular and integral part of your school’s curriculum, offering detailed suggestions of drama work for ages 4 to 7. The teaching units are arranged around four strands: drama for literacy; drama and the whole curriculum; drama film and media; and drama for performance. The authors provide a wealth of practical activities throughout both volumes.

The Creative Arts, 5th Edition: a Process Approach for Teachers and Children. Linda Carol Edwards, $85.00

This text emphasizes process over product in guiding preschoolers and primary-grade children in creatively expressing themselves in the arts: visual arts, dance and movement, and drama.  Key changes to this edition include a new feature on extending creativity into the home with families, more multicultural content and examples of multicultural art forms.

Different Speeds and Different Needs: How to Teach Sports to Every Kid. Gary Barber, $32.95

This appealing book demonstrates how practitioners can put excitement and inspiration into the learning process and to support the creative capacities of young children. Involvement in sports can be an empowering and enriching experience for all children. But how can children with different learning needs and physical abilities break through barriers and stereotypes on the playing field to find acceptance and success? This comprehensive guide shows K–12 teachers and coaches how to establish, revamp, and sustain inclusive sports programs that benefit students with a wide range of special needs and challenges.

With this positive, motivating book — written by an expert who's also the father of two children with autism — teachers and coaches will have the guidance they need to develop inclusive sports programs where all children join in the fun.

Chapters address many different needs and abilities including:  

• physical difficulties, coordination  and mobility challenges
• ADHD , intellectual challenges, learning disabilities, and giftedness
• behavioral challenges and bullying
• autism spectrum disorders
• Tourette syndrome
• visual or hearing impairments
• height and weight challenges, obesity, and eating disorders
• anxiety, stress, and depression

Drama School. Mick Manning & Brita Granström, $13.50 (ages 6-10)

Drama School is the perfect introduction to the world of theatre and film. Its pages are packed full of great ideas for all aspects of your production. Clear step-by-step instructions on everything you need to put on a great show!

Engaging Learners through Artmaking: Choice-Based Art education in the Classroom. Katherine Douglas & Diane Jaquith, $28.95

This book details the philosophy, rationale and implementation of choice-based art education in elementary and middle schools. It introduces behaviors that sustain engagement such as problem finding, innovation, play, representation, collaboration and offers strategies for setting up studio centers and exhibitions of student art.

Getting Your Kids Active: How to Have Active, Healthy Kids. Claire Gillman, $28.95

Getting the whole family involved is the best way to make sure your kids stay fit, active and healthy for a lifetime.

Good Sports: Rhymes about Running, Jumping, Throwing and More. Jack Prelutsky & Chris Raschka, $21.95

Celebrate the joy of playing sports and having fun! Whether it’s baseball or soccer, boys or girls, winning or losing, excelling or being a happy klutz these short and happy rhymes sing the praises of all-year-round games.

Great Big Book of Children’s Games. Debra Wise, $19.95

Over 450 indoor and outdoor games for children ages 3 to 14. Includes solo and team games, party games, classroom and family games as well as innovative twists on many old favorites.

Hip Hop Speaks to Children: a Celebration of Poetry with a Beat. Nikki Giovanni, editor, $22.95 (includes audio CD)

A groundbreaking new anthology of rhymes and rhythms!

Hip Hop Speaks to Children is a celebration of poetry with a beat. Readers can immerse themselves in 51 selections from 42 poets and performers, and 30 performances on the audio CD, many recorded especially for this collection. Some tracks on the CD are performed by the artists who created them; others are unique interpretations by admiring poets and artists. Celebrate remarkable poets including:

• Eloise Greenfield
• Mos Def
• Tupac Shakur
• Maya Angelou
• Queen Latifah
• Nikki Dean Grimes
• Lucille Clifton
• Langston Hughes
• A Tribe Called Quest
• Walter Dean Myers
• and many more

An Introduction to Music in Early Childhood Education. Joanne Greata, $63.95

Learn how to create a musically nurturing environment while providing culturally-diverse musical learning experiences for children from birth through age nine.

The Jumbo Book of Outdoor Art. Irene Luxbacher, $18.95

Take a walk on the wild side with fifty-seven projects that can be made in the great outdoors. From imagined ogres who live underground to a sculpture that grows, making outdoor art is a blast of fresh air. This book is full to bursting with creative energy and encourages kids to take it outside!

Munsch at Play.  Plays by Irene Watts, Original Stories by Robert Munsch, $24.95

What’s even better than reading a Robert Munsch story out loud? Acting in one!

Eight of Munsch’s best-loved tales have been adapted for stage, classroom or backyard. Complete with innovative ideas for props, casting and costumes, each story is presented in an accessible, illustrated format that kids will love to participate in and watch.

No Standing Around In My Gym: Lesson Plans, Games and Teaching Tips for Elementary Physical Education. J.D. Hughes, $27.95

If you’re looking for fresh ways to teach children ages 4 to 11 basic fitness concepts, movement skills, and games that emphasize creative thinking and cooperation, No Standing Around in My Gym is an incredible source of ideas and solutions to help you:

• Increase the time students are active in class
• Minimize discipline problems
• Develop healthy attitudes that lead to a lifetime of activity
• Save valuable lesson preparation time
• Keep students motivated and challenged

101 Rhythm Instrument Activities for Young Children, Birth to 6. Abigail Flesch Connors, $16.95

Help every child experience the magic of making music.

Supporting Children’s Creativity through Music, Dance, Drama and Art: Creative Conversations in the Early Years. Edited by Fleur Griffiths, $43.95

This appealing book demonstrates how practitioners can put excitement and inspiration into the learning process and to support the creative capacities of young children.

Yoga in Your School: Exercises for Classroom, Gym and Playground. Teressa Asencia, $26.95

Yoga in Your School presents a series of short “Yoga breaks” designed for teachers to easily insert into their daily classroom schedule. Each posture or breathing technique may be practiced in less than three minutes, so that they may be used regularly or as needed, when attention or energy begins to wane. These simple movement exercises are designed to develop concentration, improve motor skills and physical fitness, develop strength, flexibility and balance. By simply taking a few moments to stop between activities to breathe and stretch, teachers may create a harmonious classroom with calm alert children who are receptive and eager to learn.

Yoga Calm for Children: Educating Heart, Mind and Body. Lynea Gillen & Jim Gillen, $32.95

Yoga Calm offers 60 activities for the K-12 classroom that promote relaxation, concentration and self control; fosters physical fitness and helps in the development of social/emotional awareness skills. Features more than 100 photographs and easy-to-follow instructions.

YogaKids: Educating the Whole Child through Yoga. Marsha Wenig, $20.95

Over 50 poses with activities for integrated learning at home and school.

Yoga Therapy for Every Special Child: Meeting Needs in a Natural Setting. Nancy Williams, Illustrated by Leslie White, $19.95

Yoga therapy is gaining rapid recognition as a form of treatment that can improve the physical and mental wellbeing of children with a variety of complex needs. This book contains a specially-designed yoga program for use with children of all abilities, and provides both parents and professionals with the knowledge they need to carry out the therapy themselves.

The program consists of a series of postures, each of which is explained and accompanied by an illustration. The postures are designed to help children understand and use their bodies, and work towards positive changes such as realigning the spine, encouraging eye-contact, and promoting calm and steady breathing. Consideration is given to creating the right setting for carrying out the therapy, assessing an individual child's particular needs, and making the sessions fun using games and props. Sections on yoga therapy for specific conditions such as autistic spectrum disorder, Down syndrome, and cerebral palsy are included, and the book concludes with child and parent reports on how the program has worked for them, and a list of useful contacts and resources.

This practical book is a must for parents, teachers, therapists and other professionals, and anybody else who wants to help a child to develop through enjoyable and therapeutic yoga sessions.