Recommended Reading

Books by Maria Montessori

The Absorbent Mind by Maria Montessori

The Discovery of the Child by Maria Montessori

Understanding the Human Being by Silvana Quattrocchi Montanaro

Montessori from the Start by Paula Polk Lillard and Lynn Lillard Jessen

Montessori in the Classroom by Paula Polk Lillard

Montessori: The science behind the genius by Angeline Stoll Lillard


Parenting

How to Raise an Amazing Child the Montessori Way by Tim Seldin

The Creative Family: How to encourage imagination and nurture family connections by Amanda Blake Soule

How to talk so kids will listen and listen so kids will talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

Heaven on Earth: A handbook for parents of young children by Sharifa Oppenheimer (this book comes from the Waldorf perspective but many of the ideas are also recurrent Montessori themes)

Raising a Bilingual Child by Barbara Zurer Pearson


Other books that have inspired my educational philosophy

What´s Going On In There ? by Lise Eliot

Endangered Minds by Jane M. Healy

Émile: or, On Education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau