Abstract
Like the researcher-authors of this ground-breaking book, I too have been engaged in matters concerning infants and toddlers in childcare settings. It is a privilege to be invited as a fellow traveller in the authors’ Froebelian journey of exploration into spaces and worlds I have lived in, but not connected in such an explicit way. That is, my advocacy around politics and pedagogy for infants and toddlers from the mid-1970s as a mother, supervisor and academic (May, 1991, 1992; Podmore & May, 2003), and my later writings on Froebelian history and pedagogy. This began in the mid-1990s in the archives of the Froebel College, Roehampton University, examining the European roots of the institutions of early childhood and their transportation and transformation in colonial times to Aotearoa New Zealand (May, 1997, 2013; May et al. 2016). Exploring the synergies across these spaces is the ground-breaking achievement of this book.