| Politics in the playground: The world of early childhood in New Zealand H May (No Title), 2009 | 307 | 2009 |
| The organisation for economic co-operation and development’s international early learning study: Opening for debate and contestation P Moss, G Dahlberg, S Grieshaber, S Mantovani, H May, A Pence, ... Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood 17 (3), 343-351, 2016 | 258 | 2016 |
| The discovery of early childhood H May NZCER press, 2013 | 251 | 2013 |
| Learning and teaching stories: Action research on evaluation in early childhood M Carr, H May, B Podmore, V (with Cubey, P., Hatherly, A., & Macartney European Early Childhood Research Journal 11 (No 1), 115-126, 2002 | 173* | 2002 |
| Choosing a model. Reflecting on the development process of Te Whariki: National early childhood curriculum guidelines in New Zealand M Carr, H May International Journal of Early Years Education 1 (3), 7-22, 1993 | 121 | 1993 |
| Te Whariki: curriculum voices M Carr, H May (Ed) Helen Penn, Early childhood services: Theory, policy and practice, 53-73, 2000 | 116* | 2000 |
| Teachers Talk Teaching, 1915-1995: Early Childhood, Schools, and Teachers' Colleges S Middleton, H May | 110 | 1997 |
| Minding children, managing men: Conflict and compromise in the lives of postwar Pakeha women H May Bridget Williams Books, 1992 | 89 | 1992 |
| Aotearoa-New Zealand: An overview of history, policy and curriculum H May McGill Journal of Education/Revue des sciences de l'éducation de McGill 37 (001), 2002 | 80 | 2002 |
| Empire, Education, and Indigenous Childhoods: Nineteenth-Century Missionary Infant Schools in Three British Colonies H May, B Kaur, L Prochner Ashgate Series on Childhood, 2014 | 76 | 2014 |
| Learning and Teaching Stories: New Approaches to Assessment and Evaluation in Relation to Te Whariki. M Carr, H May, V Podmore | 68 | 1998 |
| Strengthening community-based early childhood education in Aotearoa New Zealand: Report of the quality public early childhood education project H May, L Mitchell NZEI Te Riu Roa, 2009 | 51 | 2009 |
| “The blessings of civilisation”: nineteenth‐century missionary infant schools for young native children in three colonial settings–India, Canada and New Zealand 1820s–1840s L Prochner, H May, B Kaur Paedagogica Historica 45 (1-2), 83-102, 2009 | 45 | 2009 |
| I am five and I go to school: Early years schooling in New Zealand 1900-2010 H May Early years schooling in New Zealand, 1900-2010, 2011 | 44* | 2011 |
| ‘Being Froebelian’: An antipodean analysis of the history of advocacy and early childhood H May History of Education 35 (2), 245-262, 2006 | 43 | 2006 |
| ‘Minding’,‘Working’,‘Teaching’: Childcare in Aotearoa/New Zealand, 1940s—2000s H May Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood 8 (2), 133-143, 2007 | 41 | 2007 |
| Early childhood care and education in Aotearoa–New Zealand AB Smith, H May Early Childhood Care & Education, 103-122, 2006 | 41 | 2006 |
| School beginnings: A nineteenth century colonial story H May NZCER Press, 2005 | 41 | 2005 |
| Weaving Patterns: Developing National Early Childhood Curriculum Guidelines in Aotearoa--New Zealand. M Carr, H May Australian Journal of Early Childhood 19 (1), 25-33, 1994 | 37 | 1994 |
| New Zealand: A narrative of shifting policy directions for early childhood education and care H May An Equal Start?, 147-170, 2014 | 35 | 2014 |
