The following books offer some methods and materials that are different, out of the ordinary, and maybe even unique.
- The Creative Teacher: An Encyclopedia of Ideas to Energize Your Curriculum - Steve Springer
- Creative Teaching Methods - Marlene D. LeFever
- Teaching Outside the Box: How to Grab Your Students By Their Brains - LouAnne Johnson
- How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day - Michael J. Gelb
- Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within - Natalie Goldberg
- Living the Creative Life: Ideas and Inspiration from Working Artists - Rice Freeman-Zachery
- The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life - Twyla Tharp
- Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament - Kay Redfield Jamison
- The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles - Steven Pressfield
- A Technique for Producing Ideas - James Webb Young
- Wreck This Journal - Keri Smith