• Dunster, Lee: Home Child Care: A Caregiver’s Guide, Child Care Provider’s Association, Ont., 1994
  
  
• Dunster, Lee: Caregiver to Caregiver a Handbook on Developing Family Day Care Provider Groups. Child Care Providers Association, Ont. 1993
  
  
• Dunster, L., Maxwell, A. & Mosher, P.: The Family Child Care Workforce. Linking Research to Practice: A Canadian Forum.
  
  
• Well Beings: A guide to promote the Physical Health, Safety and Emotional Well Being of Children in Child Care Centers and Family Day Care Homes 2nd edition. Canadian Pediatric Society, 1999.
  www.cps.ca available in both English and French.
  
  
• Special Collections: Family Child Care
  Click here for the contents
  
  
• Providing Home Child Care For a Living: A Survey of Providers Working in the Unregulated Sector in their Own Home. Canadian Child Care Federation, 1998
  
  
• Providing Home Child Care for a Living: A Survey of Providers Working in the Regulated Sector. Canadian Child Care Federation, 1998
  
  
• Providing Home Child Care for a Living: A Survey of Providers Working in the Unregulated Sector in the Child’s Home. Canadian Child Care Federation, 1998
  
  
• Meeting the Challenge: Effective Strategies for Early Childhood Enviroments. Canadian Child Care Federation, 1999.
  Order online
  Order by fax
  
  
• Gonzalez-Mena, Janet: Tips and Tidbits: A Book for Family Day Care Providers. NAEYC, Washington, DC, 1991. www.naeyc.org
  
  
• Harms, Thelma and Richard M. Clifford: Family Day Care Rating Scale. Teachers College Press, New York, NY, 1989 www.redleafpress.org
  
  
• Anderson, Kate: Temperamental Differences and the Child in Family Day Care. Western Canada Family Child Care Association of BC, 1997
  This document is available on line at:
  www.cfc-efc.ca/docs/wcfcca/00000751.htm
  
  
• Shum, Judy & Donna Coroa: A Guide to Home Day Care for Parents & Caregivers. Next Door Family Resources, Ont., 2000
  
  
• Family Child Care Starter Kit
  The kit includes the Record-Keeping Guide, Calendar-Keeper, Marketing Guide, Contracts and Policies, and Sharing in the Caring (one agreement-form sample packet). The kit is available at Redleaf Press. www.redleafpress.org
  
  
• Koch, T., Kamberg, M.: Tips From Tina – Help Around the House. Hundreds of Practical Ideas to Make Family Child Care Easier and More Fun. Redleaf Press, 1995 www.redleafpress.org
  

These books and many more resources are referenced in the Family Child Care Training Program Levels 1 - 3.