Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Part I Setting the Scene: The Multiple Worlds of Children's Learning -- Chapter 2 Learning through difference: cultural practices in early childhood language socialisation -- Part II Up to Five: Learning to Live With Different Languages -- Chapter 3 Two sisters at school: issues for educators of young bilingual children -- Chapter 4 Continuities and discontinuities: teaching and learning in the home and school of a Puerto Rican five year old -- Chapter 5 Stories from two worlds: bilingual experiences between fact and fiction -- Chapter 6 A child writes from her everyday world: using home texts to develop biliteracy at school -- Part III From Five to Seven: Languages and Literacies in Homes, Schools and Communities -- Chapter 7 Investigating literacy in London: three generations of readers in an East End family -- Chapter 8 Learning to read, reading to learn: the importance of siblings in the language development of young bilingual children -- Chapter 9 Friends as teachers: the impact of peer interaction on the acquisition of a new language -- Chapter 10 Working in partnership: parents, teacher and support teacher together -- Chapter 11 Why you don't eat bananas: an exploration of a child's possible worlds in story -- Chapter 12 From Karelia to Kashmir: a journey intobilingual children's story-reading experiences within school and community literacy practice -- Author index -- Subject index