Our image-rich, media-dominated culture prompts critical thinking about how we educate young children. In response, this volume provides a rich and provocative synthesis of theory, research, and practice that pushes beyond monomodal constructs of teaching and learning. It is a book about bringing ¿sense¿ to 21st century early childhood education, with ¿sense¿ as related to modalities (sight, hearing), and ¿sense¿ in terms of making meaning. It reveals how multimodal perspectives emphasize the creative, transformative process of learning by broadening the modes for understanding and by encouraging critical analysis, problem solving, and decision-making. The volume¿s explicit focus on children¿s visual texts (¿art¿) facilitates understanding of multimodal approaches