Reviews: For your shelf

by Lesley Maroni (Jessica Kingsley, £8.99, ISBN 9781843105343, www.jkp.com). Reviewed by Jennie Lindon, psychologist and early years consultant. It is refreshing to read a book that focuses on this age group as young individuals, not as children who have to be fitted into an adult-determined framework. Lesley Maroni explores sensitively how they try to make sense of daily life. She offers valuable descriptions of the ways children's perspective, and confusion, emerge through their play and conversation. Like others in the Understanding Your Child series from the Tavistock Clinic, the book is written both for parents and practitioners. The...