In childhood we treasure those books that have pictures that both enhance and provoke our imaginations. A. A. Milne, Beatrice Potter, and Maurice Sendek come to mind. And it is the elucidation of the mind that Daniel Siegel attempts in his most recent book, Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human. Like a good storyteller, he takes us on an adventure with illustrations. Why illustrations in a book for grown-ups? Because like alphabets and even words, they alone cannot themselves make poetry or prose. That which is effable needs multi-sensorial perception