100 Languages of Children Exhibition Catalog. Edited by Tiziana Filippini & Vea Vecchi, 1996/2005, $49.95; French (insert) Edition, $49.95

The Hundred Languages of Children Catalogue of the exhibition has been travelling successfully for 30 years around the world. The book, with the contributions by different authors, presents through a rich and diversified documentation the evolution of the pedagogical experience in Reggio Emilia and Loris Malaguzzi’s thinking. With contributions by Giulio Carlo Argan, Andrea Branzi, Jerome Bruner, Paola Cagliari, Tullio De Mauro, Jurij Ljubimov, Loris Malaguzzi, Clotilde Pontecorvo, Carla Rinaldi et al.

Graphic design by Rolando Baldini & Vania Vecchi; English translation by Nancy Birch Podini, Tiziana Filippini, Christine Richardson & Leslie Morrow

Advisories. Edited by Paola Strozzi & Vea Vecchi, 2002, $31.95

“We are the explorers of the Diana School, we’re the strongest of all, even though strength doesn’t really count, that much it’s better to be intelligent... we’re the best experts on dinosaurs, insects, tricks and jokes... we’re writing some things for you so you can learn them.” - The Big Kids of Diana School

The older children of Diana Preschool — who are leaving for elementary school — tell incoming 3-year-olds all about the preschool. The book includes a game of stickers, to find one’s own way in the new school.

Graphic design by Rolando Baldini and Vania Vecchi; English translation by Leslie Morrow

Beastiary. Edited by Gino Ferri, 1995, $15.75 (Portfolio)

Horses, cats, bulls, dinosaurs, wolves — a modern beastiary made completely of drawings created by the children of the Preschools of Reggio Emilia.

Bikes... Lots! Reggio Children Publications, 2014, $48.00

An educational, ecological, urbanistic project dedicated to the topic of the bicycle, which involved children and teenagers from the Infant-toddler Centre to the High school and lead to the permanent installation Bicitante (Bikes... lots!) in the pedestrian tunnel of the railway station of Reggio Emilia. The book presents an unusual collection of unpredictable, surprising and ironic bicycles.

The Black Rubber Column. Texts, photographs & graphic design by Isabella Meninno; English translation by Jane McCall, 2009, $28.95

During their explorations in the Loris Malaguzzi International Centre before it was opened to the public, children were enchanted by the columns in the Exhibition hall. They decided to prepare a gift for them: a series of garments made of different materials that columns can wear. From the planning to the realisation of the final draft, a small and precious narration reveals children’s learning strategies.

Brick by Brick/Mattone su mattone. Reggio Children, with contributions by Ettore Borghi, Paola Cagliari, Loris Malaguzzi & Renzo Testi, 2018, $24.95

This revised edition of the  history of the “XXV Aprile” People’s Nursery School of Villa Cella (Reggio Emilia) is beautifully and movingly illustrated with photographs of this exciting time.

Browsing through Ideas: the Wonder of Learning Series. Edited by Tiziana Filippini & Vea Vecchi, 2009, $49.95 

A collection of wonderful ideas, microstories, children's thoughts and theories, fragments of projects. An open and engaging folder of new and different contributions of children and teachers, with a particular narrative and iconic synthesis. While keeping a trace on the basic project, the portfolio expresses new concepts that can generate enormous educational potentials, eliciting new ideas and new proposals. 

Graphic design by Mali Yea with Rolando Baldini; English translation by Jane McCall

Catness. Edited by Gino Ferri & Giovanni Piazza, 1995, $16.95 (Portfolio)

A cat (and her kittens) in the park of La Villetta Preschool is the starting point of an investigation carried out by children. Eight portfolio pages, to hang or browse.

Children, Art, Artists: the Expressive Languages of Children, the Artistic Language of Alberto Burri. Edited by Claudia Giudici & Vea Vecchi, 2004, $63.95

It documents the projects carried out in the infant-toddler centres, preschools and primary schools in relation with the anthological exhibition of Alberto Burri displayed in Reggio Emilia (2001-2002). The book illuminates a learning and projecting approach to materials and material languages, a possible and productive encounter between children and artists.

Graphic design by Rolando Baldini & Vania Vecchi; English translation by Gabriella Grasselli & Leslie Morrow

Children, Spaces, Relations: Metaproject for an Environment for Young Children. Reggio Children and Domus Academy Research Center, 1998, $83.95

Children, Spaces, Relations is an investigation into the liveability of spaces, carried out by Domus Academy of Milan and by Reggio Children in the infant-toddler centres and preschools of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia. Teachers, pedagogistas, atelieristas and architects together propose new analysing tools and use instructions to plan spaces for children.

With texts by Andrea Branzi, Jerome Bruner, Carla Rinaldi, Vea Vecchi et al; Edited by Giulio Ceppi and Michele Zini; Graphic design by Rolando Baldini, Massimo Botta, Vania Vecchi English translation by Leslie Morrow

Dialogues with Places. Edited by Tiziana Filippini, Claudia Giudici & Vea Vecchi, 2008, $49.95

Every place has its own soul, identity; trying to find it out and building up a relation with it means learning to recognise one’s own soul. Children attending the infant-toddler centres and preschools in Reggio Emilia explored the Loris Malaguzzi International Centre while it was a building site, they chose then a space they deemed to be interesting and planned a work, a gift ideated in harmony and in dialogue with the selected place. From the exhibition Dialogues with Places, children’s experiences and projects become a big working notebook.

Digital Environments/Technological Invitations/Luminous Ideas (ambienti digitali). Reggio Children, 2018, $13.50

An imaginary journey for wandering lightly between analogue and digital, like competent and cheerful Argonauts.

The stories recounted here come from the educational experience of municipal infant-toddler centres and preschools of Reggio Emilia and the cultural project of Reggio Emilia and the Loris Malaguzzi International Centre. The publication includes two accordion books, that invite us to construct a new digital vocabulary. This covers that contains the books can be used as a portable theatre backdrop for inventing stories.

Everyday Utopias DVD: a Day in an Infant-toddler Centre and a Day in a Preschool. 2011, $62.95

Two videos that are part of The Wonder of Learning exhibition.

Video filming and editing by Sara De Poi, Daniela Iotti, Mirella Ruozzi, and Simona Spaggiari; Booklet Graphic Design by Mali Yea; Realized by Reggio Children and Preschools and Infant-toddler Centres – Istituzione of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia; English translation by Leslie Morrow; DVD running time 33 minutes

Everything Has a Shadow, Except Ants. Edited by Stefano Sturloni & Vea Vecchi, 1999, $38.95; Tout a une ombre, $37.50

A project about play, imagination and science. The experiences and emotions of children of Diana and Gulliver municipal Preschools in Reggio Emilia at work with shadow, immaterial life-companion, promoter of discoveries and knowledge.

With texts by Mariano Dolci, Loris Malaguzzi and Sergio Spaggiari; Graphic design by Rolando Baldini and Vania Vecchi; English translation by Jacqueline Costa and Leslie Morrow

The Fountains. Edited by Teresa Casarini, Amelia Gambetti & Giovanni Piazza; English translation by Leslie Morrow, 1995, $31.50; les fontaines $31.50

“Let’s make an amusement park for the birds!” A starting idea that took on many forms, in a laboratory where hands work with thoughts and inventions, so as to give real dimensions to the amusement park constructed and set up in the park of La Villetta Preschool. This is a book with many voices: children, teachers, atelieristas, birds, and with George Forman and Loris Malaguzzi.

The Future is Tomorrow and I Can Only Imagine It… I Think It’s… a Lovely Day. Lorella Trancossi, Project Development, 2001, $63.95

From a project carried out in the Fiastri and Rodari Municipal Preschools of Sant’Ilario d’Enza (Province of Reggio Emilia), a book that collects thoughts and predictions on the future by 5 and 6 year-old children. Bilingual Italian/English version.

Historical Notes and General Information. Preschools and Infant-Toddler Centres of Reggio Emilia & Reggio Children, 2015, $5.50 (Booklet)

Drawings by children of the municipal preschools of Reggio Emilia.

Graphic design by Rolando Baldini & Paola Gasparoli

Indications: Preschools and Infant-toddler Centres of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia. Istituzione of the Municipality of Reggio Children, English translation by Leslie Morrow, 2010, $12.95 (Booklet)

The development of the Indications, carried out with community-wide involvement and participatory consultation, represents an important achievement in ensuring that the guiding criteria for operating the early childhood services are transparent, shared, and put into practice. These criteria derive in large part from the actual history of these educational services.

A Journey Into The Rights Of Children. Edited by Marina Castagnetti, Laura Rubizzi & Vea Vecchi, 1995, $25.95

A dictionary of rights. The children of the Diana Preschool offer their point of view about the concept of "rights". With “A Charter of Rights” by Loris Malaguzzi.

English translation by Leslie Morrow

Landscapes. 2009, $47.95 (CD-ROM)

The right of children to a welcoming, beautiful, functional, planned, relaxing, lovable, soft, funny, musical, intelligent, neat and perfumed space is visualized in this double CD-ROM,with more than 90 pictures of the environment of the infant-toddler centres and preschools of Reggio Emilia from the ‘80s until now.

The Languages of Food: Recipes, Experiences, Thoughts. Edited by Ilaria Cavallini & Maddalena Tedeschi, 2008, $50.95

We are what we eat! But what do we eat? In Reggio Emilia the choice of having and keeping kitchens inside every municipal infant-toddler centre and preschool has a strong pedagogical and cultural meaning. Kitchens become an interlacement of local culinary tradition, ecology, culture of the dialogue, art, and globalism. Lunch time is a space for relations and encounters with others and the world. From this context comes a cook book made of good recipes, experiences, projects, thoughts.

Graphic design by Marco Appiotti with Rolando Baldini; English translation by Leslie Morrow

The Little Ones of Silent Movies. Edited by Sonia Cipolla & Evelina Reverberi, 1996, $23.95

Make-believe with children and fish at the infant-toddler center. An extraordinary adventure between one-and two-year-old children and little fishes in the Rodari Infant-toddler Centre of Reggio Emilia. The whole story is silent, like in the old movies of Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, as if the children were their rightful heirs. The story unfolds without spoken words, but they are here in disguise, pervading the children’s experiences in a secret stream that ensures the continuance of dialogue and reciprocity, the feeling of being alive, listened to, understood.

Making Learning Visible: Children as Individual and Group Learners. Edited by Claudia Giudici, Mara Krechevsky & Carla Rinaldi, 2011, $72.95

To what extent is individual learning reinforced and enhanced or, on the contrary, stifled and inhibited, in a learning group? Does group learning actually exist? Can a group construct its own way of learning? To what extent can documentation foster new ways of learning? What is the relationship between documentation and assessment? These are some of the questions examined in this research project carried out from 1997 to 1999 by Harvard’s Project Zero and Reggio Children, involving teachers and pedagogistas from the Municipal infant-toddler centers and preschools of Reggio Emilia.

Texts by Howard Gardner, Paola Cagliari,Vea Vecchi, Steve Seidel et al; English translation by Jacqueline Costa, Gabriella Grasselli and Leslie Morrow; Graphic design by Isabella Meninno

The Many Faces of the Assembly DVD: a Study On the Human Figure In Drawing, Clay, and Photography. 2017, $63.95 (Three videos (one + 2 insights), total running time: 45 minutes. Produced by Reggio Children. Audio: Italian stereo with English subtitles)

The children of the Iqbal Masih Preschool investigate the human figure and portraits through an interweaving of the languages of clay, drawing, and photography. They choose to depict and describe the morning assembly: “Let’s do when we have the assembly, because it’s all of us!”

It is a complex subject, not easy to represent. The video follows the many threads of the research through the children’s explorations in the boundary zones between the different languages, making visible the thoughts and abilities that develop in these important “crossings”. It all takes place on the backdrop of a cheerful buzzing of words, thoughts, laughter, pauses, rethinking, joking around, leaps, and discussions, where research and life constitute the underlying fabric.

Martino Has Wheels. Annalisa Rabitti, illustrated by S. M. L. Possentini, 2016, $37.95

All children are different. As their friendship grows with empathic intelligence and curiosity, Emma and Martino struggle with traditional ideas of learning, language and knowledge. Martino's wheels, writing without words, tell us of a universal declaration: the difference makes us human.

Mobility of Expression. Edited by Mara Davoli & Gino Ferri, 1995, $16.95 (Portfolio)

The importance of seeing yourself, and finding your own identity. A gallery of portraits by children of Neruda Preschool. Six portfolio pages, to hang or browse.

Mosaic of Marks, Words, Material. Edited by Vea Vecchi & Mirella Ruozi, 2015, $63.95

This catalogue presents the exhibition Mosaic of Marks, Words, Material, a collection of works by children who attend the municipal infant-toddler centers and preschools of Reggio Emilia.

Drawing and telling stories means imagining, analyzing, and exploring spaces, forms, colors, words, metaphors, emotions, rhythms and pauses, entering into a narrative dimension that is both internal and external to the self, playing on reality, fiction, and interpretation. Though drawing and words are autonomous languages, for the children words and stories, silent or spoken, almost always go hand in hand or intertwine with the drawing, creating an intelligent and often poetic mosaic. With this investigation we tried to better understand this interweaving, with the aim to restore to drawing, materials, words, and the children all the cognitive and expressive richness they generate.

No Way. The Hundred is There. Loris Malaguzzi, $12.00 (poster)

Wall poster, with the poem No Way. The Hundred is There in Italian and English. 40 x 70 cm.

Not Just Anyplace DVD. Directed by Michele Fasano,  2002, $75.95

Documentary film on the history of Reggio Emilia’s municipal centres for early childhood. With historical pictures and interviews of the protagonists, and the story of more than a century of educational history.

Produced by Reggio Children with the International Association Friends of Reggio Children, the Emilia-Romagna Region & the Municipality of Reggio Emilia; English translation by Gabriella Grasselli & Leslie Morrow; DVD running time 72 minutes

One City, Many Children: Reggio Emilia, a History of the Present. Edited by Rolando Baldini, et al, 2012, $81.95

The narrative of One City, Many Children is developed through a number of broad themes: community participation, the active role of women and women’s movements, the politics of education in the city’s municipal administration, the ties between pedagogy and politics, the originality of pedagogical thinking of Loris Malaguzzi and of the Reggio Emilia education project, and the strong international identity of what is a local experience.

These themes, all topical and capable of generating new questions on education, are explored more deeply through contributions and considerations from architects, atelieristas, designers, academics, philosophers, photographers, teachers, pedagogues and pedagogistas, poets, film directors, scientists, writers and historians: the theory of the hundred languages of children shapes the construction of the narrative form.

With interviews and texts by Renzo Bonazzi, Simona Bonilauri, Ettore Borghi, Jerome Bruner, Antonio Canovi, Luciano Corradini, Gunilla Dahlberg, Graziano Delrio, Paul Ginsborg, Loris Malaguzzi, Carla Rinaldi, Vea Vecchi. English translation Jane McCall

Edited by Rolando Baldini, Ilaria Cavallini and Vania Vecchi; English version edited by Peter Moss; English translation by Jane McCall

Park Is... Reggio Children Publisher, 2008, $24.95

How to transform the city for one day, thanks to young children’s skills and learning qualities. The authors are 8-month to 2-year-old children of Bellelli Infant-toddler Centre.

Participation is an Invitation DVD. 2014, $53.50

Community and citizenship are explored by children as they reflect on the themes of borders, democracy, migration, rights, and duties.

Reggio Children and Preschools and Infant-toddler Centres – Istituzione of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia; DVD running time 23 minutes

Reggio Tutta: a Guide to the City by the Children. Edited by Mara Davoli & Gino Ferri, $74.50

From an investigation carried out in the municipal infant-toddler centres and preschools of Reggio Emilia, a book which is at once a “portrait” of the city and a “guide” for the visitor. Children, by drawing the identity of Reggio Emilia, investigate the dimension of the relation with the others, they speak about a positive, liveable, welcoming city: a feeling about the future asking forcefully for listening and interjecting.

With the contributions by Rolando Baldini, Marco Belpoliti, Simona Bonilauri, Jerome Bruner, Ermanno Cavazzoni, Tiziana Filippini, Carla Rinaldi, Vania Vecchi and Tullio Zini

Reggio Tutta Postcards. Edited by Mara Davoli & Gino Ferri, 2001, $28.95

The city as seen by the children, drawing portraits of roads, squares, monuments, churches, palaces. 25 postcards to send from Reggio Tutta, the special guide of the city, created in the infant-toddler centres and preschools of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia.

Graphic design by Rolando Baldini and Vania Vecchi

Remida Day. Edited by Alba Ferrari & Elena Giacopini, 2005, $49.95

Every year in May the city of Reggio Emilia is transformed: squares and roads welcome children and adults, elderly and young people and everyone has the opportunity to rethink about a sustainable development starting from a curious, careful point of view.

A Rustling of Wings: Children’s Drawings and Theories about Angels. Curated by Isabella Meninno, Giulia Notari, Paola Strozzi & Vea Vecchi, 2001, $19.50

One time I touched an angel and I didn’t touch anything. — Luca, years 5.2

From a project of Diana Preschool, four funny folding leaflets to browse or to hang. English version.

Sea Is Born from the Mother Wave. Edited by Laura Rubizzi & Vea Vecchi, 1996, $21.95 (16 Postcards)

"Time is born from the tempest. The wind is born from the air and has the right shape to bang things. Time is born from the years." -  Valeria years 3.8

Theories and drawings on birth by children, from a project of Diana Preschool.

Shadow Stories DVD. Sara De Poi & Simona Spaggiari, 2012, $55.95

Poetics of an encounter between science and narration. The video from La Villetta Preschool describes the experience and the encounters between the children and shadows during a visit to the Loris Malaguzzi International Centre. An animated story, alternating with brief video clips that concludes with a short animated cartoon created by the children. From The Wonder of Learning exhibition. Running time: 14 minutes. Subtitles: English

Shoe and Meter. Edited by Marina Castagnetti & Vea Vecchi, 1997, $32.95

The starting point is a concrete request: the school needs a new table. Teachers propose to children to take care of it: what to do? The first approaches to the discovery, to the function and the use of measures. Children have access to the mathematical thinking through the operations of orientation, play, choice of relational and descriptive languages.

From a project of the Diana Preschool, with texts by Loris Malaguzzi; English translation by Leslie Morrow

Tenderness. Edited by Lorena Ferretti, Gina Guidi & Giovanni Piazza, 1995, $23.95

Love narrated by children. A book written by the children of La Villetta Preschool.

With texts by Susanna Mantovani and Carla Rinaldi English translation by Leslie Morrow

Theater Curtain: the Ring of Transformation. Edited by Vea Vecchi, 2002, $74.95

The story of a project in which children from the Diana Preschool designed and created a new house curtain for the Ariosto Theater of Reggio Emilia.

The Times of Time DVD: Photographic Exhibition from the Infant-Toddler Centres to the Primary Schools. Realized by Reggio Children and Preschools and Infant-toddler Centres – Istituzione of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia, 2011, $45.95

A community-wide project that involved children and adults from infant-toddler centres, preschools and primary schools, carried out within the context of the important international photography festival Fotografia Europea.

Photographs and thoughts of children and adults tell the times — many, different, perceived and measured, awaited. The images are accompanied by documentary videos of the project and of the photographic ateliers conducted by teachers and atelieristas.

Video filming and editing: Sara De Poi, Mirella Ruozzi; Booklet graphic design by Mali Yea; English translation by Leslie Morrow; DVD running time 27 minutes

Volpino, Last of the Chicken Thieves. Loris Malaguzzi, 1995, $23.95

A children’s story about Volpino the fox, a very clever, very hungry and very frustrated chicken thief!

We Write Shapes that Look Like a Book. Reggio Children Publisher, 2008, $24.95

A project about the park of Pablo Picasso Infant-toddler Centre with the aim of supporting and improving the ecological sensitivity which belong to all children. The city initiative “Città inattesa” (City in-waiting) becomes the opportunity to widen the view and meet, with the same approach, the Park of the city and leave a trace of this encounter.

The Wonder of Learning: the Hundred Languages of Children. Edited by Ilaria Cavallini, et al, 2011, $71.95

The Wonder of Learning catalogues an important exhibition with an international birth, which is already travelling around the world. It speaks about the developments and the innovative flair of the educational experience in Reggio Emilia. The latest projects carried out in the municipal infant-toddler centres and preschools of Reggio Emilia are presented in five different sections: a wide interdisciplinary kaleidoscope, crossing different languages and media. The metaphor representing the whole cultural project is the one of the democratic piazza, a place open to the exchange of opinions, so as to build up a new idea and a new experience of citizenship.

Edited by Ilaria Cavallini, Tiziana Filippini, Vea Vecchi and Lorella Trancossi; English translation by Jane McCall, Graphic design by Rolando Baldini and Vania Vecchi

Art and Creativity in Reggio Emilia: Exploring the Role and Potential of Ateliers in Early Childhood Education. Vea Vecchi, $77.50

This book explores the contribution of and art and creativity to early education, and examines the role of the atelier (an arts workshop in a school) and atelierista (an educator with an arts background) in the pioneering pre-schools of Reggio Emilia. It does so through the unique experience of Vea Vecchi, one of the first atelieristas to be appointed in Reggio Emilia in 1970. The book provides a unique insider perspective on the pedagogical work of this extraordinary local project, which continues to be a source of inspiration to early childhood practitioners and policy makers worldwide.

The Diary of Laura: Perspectives On a Reggio Emilia Diary. Edited by Carolyn Edwards & Carlina Rinaldi, $33.50

An assemblage of affectionately written notes and photographs, Story of Laura, the original diary, chronicles the journey of one child's first months in an infant-toddler program in Reggio Emilia, Italy. It details the progression of eleven-month-old Laura's growth and milestones in the program and offers a unique perspective on her early child care experience.

Beautifully presented, The Diary of Laura includes a reproduction of the Italian diary, first published in 1983, next to the new English translation. Many of you will recognize the last entry — Laura's notable discoveries about a watch. One of the few Reggio Emilia books focused on the infant and toddler years, the diary is a powerful tool for early childhood students and professionals. This account of Reggio-based care is an insightful model for observation and reflection.

The Hundred Languages of Children: the Reggio Emilia Experience in Transformation, 3rd Edition. Edited by Carolyn Edwards, Lella Gandini & George Forman, $49.95

Reggio Emilia is located in a fertile agricultural region of Italy. Famous for its city-run early childhood program, Reggio Emilia is recognized and acclaimed as having one of the best systems of early education in the world.

Educators in Reggio Emilia use a distinctive innovative approach that supports children's well-being and fosters their intellectual development through a systematic focus on symbolic representation. From birth through age six, young children are encouraged to explore their environment and express their understanding through many modes of expression or "languages," including verbal communication, movement, drawing, painting, sculpture, shadow play, collage, and music.

This book describes how the world-renowned preschool services and accompanying practical strategies for children under six in Reggio Emilia have evolved in response to the community's demographic and political transformations, and to generational changes in both the educators and the parents of the children. The authors provide the reader with a comprehensive introduction to the Reggio Emilia experience, and address three of the most important central themes of the work in Reggio in detail: teaching and learning through relationships; the hundred languages of children, and how this concept has evolved; and integrating documentation into the process of observing, reflecting, and communicating.

The Hundred Languages in Ministories: Told by the Teachers and Children from Reggio Emilia. Foreword, Carla Rinaldi; introduction by Amelia Gambetti & Lella Gandini, Davis Publications 2015, $44.95

In The Hundred Languages in Ministories, we observe the timeless, extraordinary stories first seen in the Italian edition of The Hundred Languages of Children, as Loris Malaguzzi originally intended. The stories offer messages of a positive culture of childhood and a chance to observe how an interactive education can prepare children to become active participants in their learning in the 21st century. We can also observe the attentiveness and competency of teachers as they construct meaningful experiences for the children. Children are the inquirers, supported by the teachers with time, space and simple yet engaging materials.

In Dialogue with Reggio Emilia: Listening, Researching and Learning. Carlina Rinaldi, $81.10

The early childhood programme of Reggio Emilia in Italy is acclaimed as one of the best education systems in the world and this book offers the unique insight of Carlina Rinaldi, the former director of the municipal early childhood centres in Reggio Emilia and successor to Loris Malaguzzi, one of the twentieth century’s leading pedagogical thinkers. Rinaldi has an enviable international reputation for her contribution to the Reggio approach and has given talks on the topic around the world.

A collection of Rinaldi’s most important works, this book is organized thematically with a full introduction contextualising each piece. It closes with an interview by series editors Peter Moss and Gunilla Dahlberg, looking at Rinaldi’s current work and reflections on Reggio's past, present and future.

Much of this material is previously unpublished and focuses on a number of questions:

• What were the ideas and legacy of Loris Malaguzzi?
• What is unique about Reggio Emilia?
• What are the issues in education today and what does it mean to be a teacher?
• How can educators most effectively make use of creativity?

Loris Malaguzzi and the Schools of Reggio Emilia: a Selection of His Writings and Speeches, 1945-1993. Edited by Paola Cagliari, et al, Routledge 2016, $80.95

Loris Malaguzzi was one of the most important figures in 20th-century early childhood education, achieving world-wide recognition for his educational ideas and his role in the creation of municipal schools for young children in the Italian city of Reggio Emilia, the most successful example ever of progressive, democratic and public education.

Despite Malaguzzi’s reputation, very little of what he wrote or said about early childhood education has been available in English. This book helps fill the gap, presenting for the first time in English, writings and speeches spanning 1945 to 1993, selected by a group of his colleagues from an archive established in Reggio Emilia. They range from short poems, letters and newspaper articles to extended pieces about Malaguzzi’s early life, the origins of the municipal schools and his ideas about children, pedagogy and schools. The book provides a unique insight into the background, thinking and work of Malaguzzi, revealing, in his own words, how his thinking developed, how he moved between theory and practice, how he border-crossed many disciplines and subjects, and how he combined many roles ranging from administrator and campaigner to researcher and pedagogue. Academics, students and practitioners alike will find this landmark publication provides rich insights into his life and work.

Edited by Paola Cagliari, Marina Castagnetti, Claudia Giudici, Carlina Rinaldi, Vea Vecchi & Peter Moss.