The textbook used in this course is an Open Educational Resource (OER) created by merging two openly licensed texts: Child Growth and Development and The Whole Child: Development in the Early Years. By integrating these OER sources into a single, unified volume, the text provides a cohesive and developmentally structured overview of early childhood through adolescence, drawing together complementary theoretical and research perspectives.

As an Open Educational Resource, the textbook is provided at no cost to students. The full text is available free of charge below. Weekly reading assignments are listed in the course schedule.