Vivian Gussin Paley. In Mrs. Tully's Room: A Childcare Portrait. New York, Harvard University Press, 2003.

In Mrs. Tully's Room makes a quiet but powerful case for the pedagogical skill and psychological insight that childcare providers―so often underpaid and undervalued―can bring to their work. It also emphasizes how warm, quasi-familial, even mentoring relationships can develop between childcare providers and their preschool families.