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This is an imaginative, highly informed, and convincing description of the development of a baby's consciousness, effectively conveyed by means of a diary Stern ‘has invented to answer the questions we all pose about a baby's life’ (p. 1). Stern's conclusions come primarily from the prodigious compilation of infant research he presented in The Interpersonal World of the Infant (1985) (reviewed in this Journal, 34, 1, by ). The present book is written for parents, for whom Stern