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A hands-on and practical guide to providing musical experiences in early childhood settings. It will help you to equip a music play area, understand the different aspects of the music curriculum, and plan your group music programme.

Messy Play is not only tons of fun; it also offers so many opportunities to learn. Through engaging in Messy Play, young children learn about their senses and build literacy skills and numeracy skills. They get to explore scientific concepts and messy play is wonderful for building confidence and se...

Dance with me in the Heart is written for parents and caregivers as a guide to the most important dance in every baby's life: the Partnership Dance. Each baby's future rests upon how well this dance is accomplished. Babies are born ready to dance the Partnership Dance, but they can’t dance it with...

The Sacred Urge to Play is all you could want from a book on children's play. It is a book to read, to dip into - and most of all, to use. A guide book to play for parents and teachers of young children from 0-7 Within the pages of this book you’ll find all you need to make play central in the liv...

Take Another Look is about learning to observe children at play to see how they learn, grow and develop. As well as introducing various methods of observation, it discusses stages of development, play and adults as learners.Originally written by Pat Penrose in 1993, this re-release by author Kelly W...

A New Zealand approach to working with children in groups. New research findings outlined here confirm what Playcentre has always believed; that parents with the right training are the best educators for their children.

AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR: Rebekah Lipp & Craig PhillipsTeaching children mindfulness through the senses at a young age can help them build confidence, learn to cope with stress and realise they can overcome challenging moments in their life. Using the fun ‘Five, Four, Three, Two, One’ rhyme is an ea...

Celebrating te reo Māori, one of the official languages of Aotearoa soon to be released Rhyme & Reo: aeiou.This book aims to help teachers, parents and children to learn and have fun with te reo Māori.Passionate about te reo Māori, author Jessica Ngatai says: “I love to hear people giving te re...

Welcome to the wonderful world of Tangleby Gardens. Sue Heazlewood has a huge passion for cooking, gardening and children. She has six children of her own who are all very close in age. There are three boys and three girls who are all adults now. After creating her dream garden, she decided to inclu...

This Māori design lanyard is a great way to stand out from the crowd. Featuring kōwhaiwhai patterns in traditional red, black and white it makes a bold statement. It is the perfect way to wear passes or hold cards for events like kapa haka events and tourist shows.It also includes a carabiner clip...

When we help young children label their emotions, it helps them to understand and manage what they are feeling and to improve their emotional literacy as they grow.This book is a simplified version from the best-selling book, How Do I Feel? A Dictionary of Emotions for Children. It helps to introduc...

Ideas for play: Literacy offers patents, family, and educators alike a fun and colourful resource to support early literacy learning. The authors have structured the book to respond to the literacy learning already happening in children's day to day lives. It offers ideas for pla y, helping adults t...

Exactly what every household with young children needs! Packed full of nifty ideas and good advice, Food for Funky Families is a recipe book, a book of play ideas and a collection of wisdom from Playcentre members throughout Aotearoa New Zealand.86 pages spiral bound

Second in the 'Tails of Tangleby Gardens' following on from the first with 10 chapters, 160 illustrations, 36 recipes with QR-codes. The story is based around actual areas of Tangleby Gardens, in Ohoka. This is a great book for children to learn to cook and in the process bonding with parent. Childr...

‘Just Breathe’ is a picture book written for children aged around 3-8 years old. It tells a story that takes children (and parents) through a simple and engaging mindfulness exercise. This introduces a wonderful way of dealing with difficult emotions and preventing anxiety.There has been increas...

This stunning boxed card set will help our children learn to recognise and label emotions and feelings. The set is from the best-selling book, How Do I Feel? A Dictionary of Emotions for Children and includes all 63 emotions and an introvert and extrovert card.With a beautiful illustration of the em...

A resource book for individualised cooking as well as recipes and ideas your children can use at home.

Allow Tanya's effervescent enthusiasm and expertise to guide you through renewed thinking where dance is primarily about using the body as a means of exploration and expression and may include slumping, slithering, rolling, bouncing and jumping. Learn how to assist children to interpret the thoughts...

With 60 definitions to help improve emotional literacy. This HUGE hardcover book with over 140 pages, is all about our children learning to recognise and label emotions and feelings.Join Aroha and her friends as they share how different emotions might feel in the body and how each emotion might be h...

Kuwi's Kitchen - Kiwi Kids Cookbook is a creative way to get kids into making their own fun, well balanced, healthy lunches, and cooking easy meals. This cookbook is filled with yummy, authentic, easy-to-make recipes. Gorgeous classic Kuwi the Kiwi style illustrations will entice kids to create thei...

Sue Heazlewood has followed up on the Tails of Tangleby Gardens series with this Tea Party Recipe Book, focusing on 24 recipes, with photography, for children to learn to create.With wipeable pages, this book will keep looking great through the spills we make when creating in he kitchen.This is a gr...

In this fun and educational book, author Rachel Rohloff shares her passion and expertise aimed at getting young children excited about science. The Living World teaches scientific skills, key scientific vocabulary and explains the living world: with a focus on plants, animals and people. Divided int...

Weave te reo through a fun tale of a day out at the zoo. Learn the Māori names of animals, and kupu Māori to describe them. Translations with tips on pronunciation are provided on each page. Further information and a full glossary is at the back of the book. Following on from the first in the seri...