This guide for early care and education professionals, paraprofessionals, and family care providers relates how to improve the learning and development of children from birth to age five in center-based and family childcare programs. The tact used focuses on the child's entire experience, as well as in a group, and especially working with families. After detailing curriculum and sources of knowledge that practitioners should consider, they use an ABC approach to outline important aspects of knowledge about children (from attachment to zones of proximal development), explaining each in brief, and discuss planning for all the time children are in a program. They take into account diversity, inclusion, the community, and flexibility. The authors are both early childhood consultants and writers. Gonzalez-Mena is a retired professor from Napa Valley College and Stonehouse formerly taught early childhood at the U. of Australia, Melbourne. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Read Less