Reviews: For your shelf - Well, I wonder: Childhood in the modernworld

Nursery World, 1 November 2007

Sally Schweizer (Rudolph Steiner Press, £12.95, ISBN 1 85584 124 X, www.rudolphsteinerpress.com). Reviewed by Sandy Green, early years consultant.

This book is uplifting. Sally Schweizer celebrates childhood as it should be and what many of us strive to achieve for our own children and those we care for and work with. It is full of examples of children demonstrating joy, curiosity, innocence, puzzlement and eagerness to find out more, including some wonderful analogies and anecdotes, supporting Sally's beliefs and thinking. Sally reminds readers how each aspect of a child's environment affects development and behaviour. She gives examples of how adults...

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