Based on the classical tradition of violin pedagogy, Mark O'Connor recently published a Violin Method that draws on the American folk music tradition to engage and motivate the young student.

Those who would appreciate a more gentle learning curve from one piece to the next, might enjoy working from The Essential Elements books.

This two volume work was written by two of Violin Lab's most distinguished contributors: Laurie Scott and Bill Dick.

Mary Cohen is one of Britain's most famous pedagogues and I've always been a huge fan. Her technique studies books are full of "fun" tunes with a clear pedagogical intent. I use this series of books as supplemental material to the Suzuki series.

There are tons of scale books, and most of them are organized in the same manner, which for the beginning student is overwhelming. This book is preparation for the Carl Flesch scale system and presents scales in a more progressive fashion.

Members like this book as it has quality recordings at reasonable tempos to practice with.

This is a standard book for building left hand coordination, speed and dexterity. Just a few lines a day keeps the sluggish fingers away.

Most études exist to address a single technical issue. Rarely is that technical issue "style". These fabulous études by Amy Barlowe are a survey of the style periods of the last 300 years, thereby addressing ALL the techniques we are required to learn as violinists to play any piece of music. And they're lovely enough to use as recital pieces as well!
See also http://www.amybarlowe.com for more information.

As a teacher, I want to find pieces that are fun for students to play, but have a very pointed pedagogical agenda. All of Mary Cohen's books fall into this category.

This is comes with a DVD of Rachel Barton Pine performing all the etudes.

THis is the bible of violin techinique

These books are a wonderful supplement to any method. They span the style periods and draw from the best student violin compositions in the repertoire. May be purchased with or without CD.

Robyn's pick for best Fiddle information.

I highly recommend this book. I discovered this books some time ago, but recently took another look. It's fantastic for learning what and where the notes are on the violin, as well as for building intonation and left hand technique. There are also preparatory left hand exercises for the Suzuki songs.

This is the mother of all scale books. It is a thorough and comprehensive approach to practicing one, two, three, and four octave scales. I recommend the book for all levels of playing. You won't ever need to buy another one.

This simple and intuitive book contains one, two, and three octave major and minor scales and arpeggios in every key. Based on the work of Carl Flesch, the fingerings are consistent from scale to scale, arpeggio to arpeggio, and octave to octave. Contains the Simply Violin Full Color Circle of Fifths diagram.

Each piece is more of a song than an etude. All of my private students go through this book.

(3rd and 5th positions) These books are fundamental to building a firm knowledge of the positions . They include exercises in 3rd and 5th positions, as well as shifting up to the positions.

(2nd, 4th, 6th, and 7th positions) You can work on this book concomitantly with book 1.

Sevcik was the most prolific composer for building violin/viola technique.

This book focuses more on playing in positions than on the technique of shifting.

I'm a huge fan of anything Faber Music Publishes, and the Author Paul Harris is a great violin pedagogue. This is the first of a series of books to help improve sight reading skills. Buy all of them.

You can order Simon Fischer products straight from his website now, although for US citizens it will be cheaper to order the "Basics" and "Practice" from Amazon. Fischer's website has books and a DVD that can not be found on Amazon.