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Sources & artwork

Learning resources, communication guidance, published parent accounts and a varied visual collection.

The directory below lists the references used in the current article collection. Each article identifies its sources beside the relevant points. A US or UK service mentioned in a reference is not assumed to operate everywhere.

  1. American Academy of Pediatrics
    How to Make a Family Media Plan
  2. CDC
    Tips for Giving Directions
  3. CDC
    Tips for Relying on Routines and Rules
  4. UNICEF
    How to talk to your child’s school about bullying
  5. UNICEF
    How to communicate effectively with your young child
  6. UNICEF
    Self-care for parents
  7. UNICEF
    How play strengthens your child’s mental health
  8. UNICEF
    How to support your teen during stressful times
  9. UNICEF
    How to prepare your child for a new sibling
  10. UNICEF
    11 tips for communicating with your teen
  11. NSPCC
    Leaving your child home alone
  12. FEMA / Ready.gov
    Emergency preparedness curriculum, grades 3–5: home fire escape planning
  13. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
    Learning More Than One Language
  14. CDC
    Early Intervention
  15. CDC
    Key Points about CDC’s Developmental Milestone Checklists
  16. CDC
    Milestones by 1 Year
  17. Harvard Center on the Developing Child
    Serve and Return
  18. Institute of Education Sciences
    Assisting Students Struggling with Mathematics: Intervention in the Elementary Grades
  19. Institute of Education Sciences
    Foundational Skills to Support Students in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade
  20. Institute of Education Sciences
    Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Effective Writers
  21. UNICEF
    21 learning activities for babies and toddlers
  22. UNICEF
    Raising Parents: Stories from around the world
  23. US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Milestones by 18 Months

Photographic scenes & editorial art

The photographic scenes and artworks shown here were created for Zolls using AI image generation. The people are imagined models. These images do not depict the real parents whose published accounts we discuss. The collection includes photographic scenes, still lifes, monochrome photography, ink sketches, risograph, paper collage, a paper model, a botanical study, a wordless print and linocut.

A school-age learner and an adult using counters on a counting frame.
Close-up teaching photography · Original Zolls image
A school bag, exercise book, pencil and ruler on an ordinary homework desk.
Quiet observational photography · Original Zolls image
An imagined parent and school-age child sharing a book at a library table.
Environmental editorial photography · Original Zolls image
An imagined parent and older child preparing a packed lunch together.
Food preparation photography · Original Zolls image
An imagined adult writing a care handover in a softly lit room.
Low-light editorial photography · Original Zolls image
A two-colour risograph image of a child’s hands exploring large blocks.
Two-colour risograph · Original Zolls image
An imagined school-age wheelchair user and parent arriving in an accessible school corridor.
Black-and-white documentary photography · Original Zolls image
A graphic collage of an exercise book and different routes into a doorway.
Graphic paper collage · Original Zolls image
A school-age child drawing large looping shapes with a pencil.
Macro detail photography · Original Zolls image
A watercolour ingredient study of vegetables, pear and a small bowl.
Botanical food study · Original Zolls image
A two-panel wordless print showing school materials beside, then inside, a bag.
Wordless instructional comic · Original Zolls image
Three sizes of well-used children’s shoes beside a wall with unnumbered pencil marks.
Conceptual still-life photography · Original Zolls image
A clean infant toothbrush, plain closed toothpaste tube, cloth and cup.
High-key macro product study · Original Zolls image

Original teaching diagrams

The 4 diagrams shown here belong to the current guide collection. The school exercises use the exact examples explained in their articles.

The word ship has four letters but three sounds, represented by the groups sh, i and p.
Four letters. Three speech sounds.
An equally spaced number line from zero to fifteen. Starting at eight, a jump of two reaches ten and a jump of three reaches thirteen.
Crossing ten on a number line
A ten-frame contains seven blue counters and three red counters. Two red counters remain outside. There are twelve counters altogether.
Making ten to solve seven plus five
Three prompts for a short story retell: the beginning, an important event, and what follows.
A retell needs a thread to follow

The earlier illustration collection

The four original family illustrations remain in selected earlier articles. Their use has been reduced so that one scene no longer stands in for a large run of different subjects.

Source checks and edition date: October 30, 2026.