Books

2012. Words at work and play: three decades in family and community life. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

2008. (with Brian Street). On Ethnography: Approaches to Language and Literacy Research. NCRLL volume. New York: Teachers College Press. Pp. 250.

2008. (co-edited with James Flood and Diane Lapp). Volume 2. Handbook for Literacy Educators: Research in the Visual and Communicative Arts Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Pp. 597.

1997. (co-edited with James Flood and Diane Lapp). Handbook for Literacy Educators: Research in the Visual and Communicative Arts. New York: Macmillan Co., Pp. 906

1993. (Ed. with Milbrey W. McLaughlin). Identity and Inner-city Youth: Beyond Ethnicity and Gender New York: Teachers College Press. Pp.250.

1992. (with Shelby A. Wolf). The Braid of Literature: Children's Worlds of Reading. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Pp.250.

1983/1996. Ways with words: language, life, and work in communities and classrooms New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp.421. [Reprinted in 11th printing, 1996 with post-epilogue. Pp. 426.]

1981. (Ed. with Charles A. Ferguson) Language in the USA. New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp.592.

1972. Telling Tongues: Language Policy in Mexico, Colony to Nation. Institute of International Studies, Columbia University. New York: Teachers College Press. Pp.300.

1972. La Politica del Lenguaje en Mexico: de la Colonia a la Nacion.. Coleccion de Antropologia Social. Mexico: Instituto Nacional Indigenista. (Spanish translation of above). Pp.317.