Ideas for play: Literacy offers parents, family, and educators alike a fun and colourful resource to support early literacy learning. The authors have structured the book to respond to the literacy learning already happening in children's day to day lives. It offers ideas for play, helping adults to recognise, respond to, and enlarge upon this learning already taking place. It's a straightforward entry into emergent literacy offering a number of fun and practical ideas as starting points into the real joys of learning through play, while helping to build a strong foundation in literacy.