Title: Wise and Wonderful!
Review: This is a delightful, sensitive, timeless book that should be required reading for every teacher, parent and caregiver of young children. In fact, anyone who loves young kids should love this book. Ms. Tilson takes us not only into her kindergarten classroom, but into the homes and neighborhoods of a dozen or so young children in a Puerto Rican barrio in Manhattan. Whether heartwarming, humorous or sad, each child's story is special and gracefully told. While many of the children will remain in my memory, what I treasure most is the author's humanistic view and the following words, which she felt like screaming at many a parent: "A baby, a child, is a person, not a possession or an appendage or an extension of you. . . . Childhood is NOT a temporary holding pattern on the way to start life as an adult! Childhood IS living, right now! At every stage a child is a whole person living his life." Ah, if we would all keep that in mind!
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