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There are now many books on child psychotherapy but few like this. As far as I know this is only the second text published in the UK to cover almost the whole range of current work done by child and adolescent psychotherapists. The editors of the first, Dilys Daws and Mary Boston (1977/1981), provide a ‘grandparental’ preface to the second, referring to the ‘quiet experts’: the workers, all child psychotherapists, who have written chapters in it. The publication of this collection coincides with the fiftieth birthday of the Association of Child Psychotherapists and is an ideal opportunity to review the work of the next generation; and a time to be less quiet. There is plenty to shout about. Apart from the treatment of psychotic children, which has been deliberately excluded, a very broad range of settings and styles of work is represented here. The centre of gravity of child psychotherapy remains where it must, which is analytic work with children and adolescents on their own (there is a chapter by Viviane Green devoted to intensive therapy), but its reach has extended well into the complexities of the National Health Service and the social and other services involved with vulnerable young people. There are chapters on child psychotherapists’ work in different settings and predicaments - hospitals (Sandra Ramsden), residential care (Peter Wilson), therapeutic communities (Denis Flynn), primary care (Dilys Daws) and the community (Margaret Hunter), non-intensive therapy (Marianne Parsons, Pat Radford, Ann Horne), work with parents (Margaret Rustin), with families (Juliet Hopkins), group therapy (Susan Reid), intercultural work (Chriso Andreou), work with delinquent (Peter Wilson), violent (Marianne Parsons and Sira Derman), deprived (Carol