Some of these are textbooks. Some of them are not about children at all. All of them changed something about how I practise.
Where a book is still in print, there's a link to find it. A couple are out of print and worth hunting for secondhand.
Clinical
Sensory Integration and Learning Disorders
A. Jean Ayres
The 1972 original. Out of print, secondhand only.
Sensory Integration and the Child
A. Jean Ayres
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Sensory Integration: Theory and Practice
Anita Bundy & Shelly Lane
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Motor Skills Acquisition in the First Year
Lois Bly
Hard to find new. Worth the hunt secondhand.
Separation: Anxiety and Anger
John Bowlby
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The Whole-Brain Child
Daniel Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson
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The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy
Deb Dana
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The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog
Bruce Perry
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How Emotions Are Made
Lisa Feldman Barrett
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Wired to Feel: Autism as a Condition of Sensory Surplus
Sarah Bergenfield
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The Art of Learning
Josh Waitzkin
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Other books I've loved
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl
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Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy
Sadhguru
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