Ultimate Guide to Collecting

It starts small. Your student picks up an inexpensive souvenir on a family vacation as a way to document and remember the event. Soon, he begins to accumulate similar items on other excursions—and before long—he has a collection. Marbles, thimbles, postcards, matchbooks, magnets, stickers, figurines, coins, stamps, dolls, and more—a collection can be anything brought together into a group. There is no limit to what your students can collect. Look around your classroom, perhaps even you have a collection and aren't aware of it. The Ultimate Guide to Collecting is a practical, hands-on guide for young people interested in starting a new collection or expanding their current collection. The book includes tips on how to start, grow, organize, maintain, and display a collection. The Ultimate Guide to Collecting offers how-to advice for anyone interested in making collecting an exciting learning experience.

Frances A. Karnes is professor of curriculum, instruction, and special education at The University of Southern Mississippi. She is widely known for her teaching, research, publications, innovative program developments, and service activities in gifted education and leadership training.

Kristen R. Stephens is an Associate Professor of the Practice, Licensure Officer, Academically/Intellectually Gifted Licensure Program at Duke University. She received her Ph.D. in special education with an emphasis in gifted education at the University of Southern Mississippi.