VTS masterfully encourages children to see, think, speak, and analyze—enhancing vocabulary and fostering creative thinking. Philip Yenawine provides a step-by-step guide on how to implement VTS in a classroom with young children, while providing an in-depth overview of the theory behind the method. — Keith Whitescarver, executive director, National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector

Visual Thinking Strategies for Preschool is a wonderful resource for early child educators! Drawing upon theorists from Piaget to Vygotsky, the methods of Montessori and Reggio Emilia, and the practices from early childhood classrooms across the country, Yenawine provides innovative strategies for creating environments rich in language and visual stimuli for teaching young children. — Martha Barry McKenna, university professor, director of Creativity Commons, Lesley University

One can learn much, with pleasure, from this book. Yenawine shows that children in preschool learn that images can be interpreted with simple strings of words which, as the children realize they are being listened to, become sentences describing their own interpretations, and thus their own stories. — Lella Gandini, US liaison for the dissemination of the Reggio Emilia Approach