Equipment & Books
Reviews, roundups and advice on how to choose nursery equipment and resources.
Latest Equipment Reviews
Fairytale Basket, £59.95
A collection of story props from TTS Group
Time to Talk Number Rhymes Basket, £39.95
A bumper set of props for rhyme time, from TTS Group.
The Discovery Set (£30)
A child's explorer set from Play to Z
Animal Towers (£20)
A set of wooden animals from Play to Z
Special Reports:
Nursery Equipment
The latest in resouces to promote enabling environments in the key areas of communication & language, physical development, personal, social & emotional development, under threes and outdoors.

Latest Jobs
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Senior Early Years Practitioner / Early Years Practitioner, Fortune Green Nursery and Pre-School
17,000 - 19,000+ dependent on experience., NW6
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Qualified Early Years Teacher - Mosley, Catherine House Day Nursery
Salary negotiable, Moseley, Birmingham B13 9PZ
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Nursery Officers, The Eveline Day Nursery Schools Ltd
., 30 Ritherdon Road Tooting Bec SW17 8QD
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Nursery Nurses and Room Leader - fantastic career opportunities, St Johns Wood., Bright Horizons Family Solutions
up to £19,500 depending on experience, North West London
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Overseas Childcare Team Members, In2Action
Competitive, Europe, Tunisia, Turkey, Egypt and The Canaries
Collections
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Enabling Environments: Collections - On the beach
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Enabling Environments: Collections - Take art
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Enabling Environments: Collections - Minibeasts
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Enabling Environments: Collections - On the beat
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Enabling Environments: Collections - Our space
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Enabling Environments: Collections - On time
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Enabling Environments: Collections - Hit home
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Enabling Environments: Collections - Funny bones?
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Enabling Environments: Collections - Light and dark
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Enabling Environments: Collections - Helping hands
Making Spaces
Enabling Environments: Making Spaces ... Cosy places
Children often want their own small corners where they feel safe and secure. How best can settings cater for this need?
Enabling Environments: Making spaces... Mathematics
Calculating and number play must be interactive if it is to trigger ideas and stimulate thinking. Anne O'Connor suggests ways of making the best use of mathematical resources.
Enabling Environments: Making Spaces... Partitions
Anne O'Connor suggests ways of maximising the opportunities a large space offers while retaining the sense of security some children need by partitioning off smaller areas.
Latest Children's Books
Honk Honk! Baa Baa!
by Petr Horacek, Walker Books, boardbook, £4.99
Time for Bed
by Petr Horacek, Walker Books, board book, £4.99
How to Wash A Woolly Mammoth
by Michelle Robinson and Kate Hindley, Simon and Schuster, paperback, £6.99
Books for Professionals
Observation, Assessment and Planning in the Early Years- Bringing it all together
By Kathy Brodie (Open University Press, £21.99, ISBN 978033524670)
Getting ready to write
By Alistair Bryce-Clegg (Featherstone, £18.99, ISBN 9781408193181)
Treasure Baskets and Heuristic Play
By Sally Featherstone (Featherstone, £18.99, ISBN 781408175835)
Working with Babies & Children from Birth to Three
By Jools Page, Ann Clare & Cathy Nutbrown (Sage, £20.99, ISBN 9781446209066)
