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First Discoveries

“Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are almost nonexistent.”
― Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

Young children form first impressions from faces
Science Daily, March 4, 2014
Imagination Playground
"Imagination Playground was conceived and designed by award-winning architect David Rockwell, who was inspired by watching his own children play. The work of his firm, Rockwell Group, has been internationally recognized for its broad array of projects, from restaurants to stage sets, hotels to historic restorations, art programming to interactive design."
Preschoolers can outsmart college students at figuring out gizmos
"Preschoolers can be smarter than college students at figuring out how unusual toys and gadgets work because they're more flexible and less biased than adults in their ideas about cause and effect, according to new research."
University of California - Berkeley, March 6, 2014.
The states of knowing and not knowing and the really interesting bits in between
Discover Children's Story Centre
Discover Children's Story Centre, London's only children's museum is a place where children and their families can enjoy playing learning and making up stories together.
Story Cloud
From Discover Children's Story Centre.

Picture Books

Chalk by Bill Thomson (Illustrator)
Call Number: PIC F THO
ISBN: 9780761455264
Three children discover a magical bag of chalk on a rainy day

Children and Play

Photos Capture The Joy On Playgrounds Around The World
"Whether they're in a posh London school or in the slums of Kenya, in the midst of war or in a battle against bullies, kids take playtime very seriously.
That's what photographer James Mollison learned after spending five years photographing school playgrounds around the world."

Imagination Playground: Drive to Candy Land

Gever Tulley teaches life lessons through tinkering

Books for the Very Young

The Jolly Postman by Janet Ahlberg
ISBN: 9780434925155
The Jolly Postman delivers cards and letters to various fairy-tale characters. He has a letter of apology for the three bears from Goldilocks, a postcard from Jack for the giant, a solicitor's letter on behalf of Little Red Riding-Hood for the wolf who ate grandma, and so on. There are six envelopes in the book, each containing letters, cards, etc.
How many bugs in a box? by David A. Carter
ISBN: 9781852130640
Inside each bright box are bugs to count from one to ten.
The very hungry caterpillar by Eric Carle
Call Number: F CAR
ISBN: 9780140569322
A newly hatched caterpillar eats his way through all kinds of food.

Where Is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox; Judy Horacek (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780670041497
Here is the blue sheep, and here is the red sheep. Here is the bath sheep, and here is the bed sheep. But where is the green sheep?
Where's Spot? by Eric Hill
ISBN: 9780723263401
In Spot's first adventure children can join in the search for the mischievous puppy by lifting the flaps on every page to see where he is hiding.
The blue Ballon by Mick Inkpen
ISBN: 9780340558843
The day after by birthday party Kipper found a blue balloon in the garden, which was odd because the balloons at my party were red and white...
Looking for Crabs by Bruce Whatley
ISBN: 9780207177712
When you are on holidays and it's too cold to swim, what can you do? You can look for crabs But search carefully, they are very hard to find.