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This is a book about learning to share one's possessions. To this end, it has thirty-two photographs illustrating daily events involving Randy, a boy about four years old, his playmates, and his parents.
The pictures are so dramatic that they are almost sufficient to convey the story. The captions serve to explain, in lay terms, the psychiatric implications, the dynamics of object relationship: the child must sufficiently receive before he can give—whether it be of love or of possessions (symbols of love). Clearly and simply pictures and text portray the dynamics of establishing ego boundaries and relationship to one's own possessions and those of others.
Lawrence Frank's foreword, which like all the written text is in quasi blank verse, is simple and explicit.
The format, designed by Jerome Kuhl, is excellent. While a few pages contain only photograph or only print, most of them are about half picture, half text; the number and color of the printed lines gives an unusually pleasing and stimulating effect to the eye, a successful application of visual education.
Psychodynamics, so well integrated in such an agreeable, homey, yet visually impressive way, will evoke an emotional as well as an intellectual response, which is the best method in education.