Child Development Through the Eyes of Children's Authors

Child Development Through the Eyes of Children's Authors: Using Picture Books to Understand Theory, has been written to serve as a companion text to McDevitt and Ormrod’s Child Development and Education, 3rd Edition. Specifically, it has been written to act as a resource for instructors who have adopted the McDevitt and Ormrod text for use in courses that deal with child development, educational psychology, or similar disciplines. More specifically, it has been written to help students in teacher preparation and other professional programs make connections between what they learn in their child development classes and what theories and principles look like in practice through the medium of children’s literature.