• Loose Parts: Inspiring Play in Young Children by Lisa Daly & Miriam Beloglovsky 

• Loose Parts 2: Inspiring Play with Infants and Toddlers by Lisa Daly & Miriam Beloglovsky

• Planning in the Moment with Young Children: A Practical Guide for Early Years Practitioners and Parents By Anna Ephgrave

• Interacting Or Interfering? Improving Interactions In The Early Years  By Julie Fisher\

• Bringing the Reggio Approach to your Early Years Practice By Linda Thornton

• Can I Go and Play Now?: Rethinking the Early Years by Greg Bottrill

• Beautiful Stuff!: Learning with Found Materials by Cathy Weisman Topal and Lella Gandini

• Playing It Up: With Loose Parts, Playpods, and Adventure Playgrounds by Joan Almon,

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Along with these books, there are some great resources and articles that can be accessed online. These include:

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• Inspiring Scotland's: Loose Parts Play is a great resource that covers all the basics in the format of a toolkit. It is easy to read and has some great tips, example risk assessments etc. https://www.inspiringscotland.org.uk/hub/loose-parts-play/

• Michelle Thornhills chart on schemas and loose parts is fantastic. It categorises loose parts by schema s is a great resource not only or planning, but to share with practitioners to develop understanding of different behaviours. https://wanderwildwonder.com/2016/01/11/loose-parts-categorised-by-schema

• Fairy dust teaching has many great resources which you can download. If you sign up for their mailing list then you get access to free ebooks, e.g. getting started with loose parts. https://fairydustteaching.com

• The Loose Parts Play page on Facebook is brimming with useful information, debates and inspiration from other passionate people. Carla Gull has a podcast out which is a great listen and very informative. http://insideoutsidemichiana.blogspot.co.uk/p/loose-parts.html