Connecting : friendship in the lives of young children and their teachers / edited by Dennie Palmer Wolf and Bonnie Neugebauer.

Preface: More than social skills / Dennie Palmer Wolf
Introduction: Friendship-loving: what early childhood education is all about / Ashley Montagu
pt. 1. The nature and stages of children's friendships: friendship among infants? / interview with Annette Axtmann and Carla Bluhm
Supporting social interaction between toddlers / Nancy Lauter
Fostering prosocial development in infants and toddlers / Judith Leipzig
"Are you my friend?" Learning to use the language of friendship / Joyce Huth Munro
Thinking about friendship: fostering and extending young children's understanding / Carolyn Pope Edwards
On the rocky road to friendship: emerging peer relationships in school-agers / Kay Albrecht
Being teachers, being friends: adult relationships in the classroom / ideas and comments from the field
pt. 2. Facilitating Friendships: approaching the slow-to-approach child / Mary Beth Lakin
Alice: a blind child looks for friendship / Marguerita Rudolph
No girls aloud: gender differences and early play / Dennie Palmer Wolf
A place for learning social skills: making classrooms support the development of friendships / an interview with Linda Leblanc Tschantz
Co-playing: teachers as models for friendships / W. George Scarlett
Facilitating collaborations among children / Susan Stacey
Parenting for friendship / Virginia Haugen. pt. 3. What are friends for? reflections of a millenial parent / Jim Greenman
Cultures, empathy, and friendship / an interview with Lella Gandini
Children's friendships in contemporary society / a conversation between Nancy Carlsson-Paige and Diane Levin
Building a community culture among teachers / Margie Carter.