Baby in the Mirror: A Child's World from Birth to Three

Baby in the Mirror: A Child's World from Birth to Three

by Charles Fernyhough (Author)

Synopsis

For Charles Fernyhough, the birth of his daughter Athena was an opportunity to re-evaluate much of what he had learned as a lecturer and researcher in developmental psychology. Drawing on the detailed notes he kept on her development, Fernyhough uses Athena's story as an entry point into an account of how a child's mind develops before the age of three. Unlike dry childcare manuals, or patronising TV tie-ins, this unique book taps into a parent's wonder at the processes of psychological development in an engaging, child-centred way. It is written with a father's tenderness, and a novelist's empathy and style. Funny, touching and fascinating, it will allow parents to understand the extraordinary journey their child makes during the momentous first three years of life.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 05 May 2008

ISBN 10: 1847080073
ISBN 13: 9781847080073

Media Reviews
A painstakingly observed, exquisitely written voyage of discovery into the first three years of life as experienced by a child . . . an unusual and beautiful hybrid; a textbook suffused with tenderness, a memoir rooted in research. The Guardian
Fernyhough points out the milestones of development that could be so easily missed when embedded in everyday acts of play . . . tackles the big questions, but at a level that a lay reader can follow. Nature
The most poetic popular science book of the year. His beautifully expressed wonderment at the bizarre mixture of learning and forgetting that is toddlerhood is infectious, and makes this a hard book to put down. Sunday Telegraph
Charles Fernyhough uses his daughter Athena's first three years of life to explore how children remember, understand, learn, and make sense of life.It's a book full of wonderAthena's and her father's. I'm Pregnant magazine
It's fascinating about memory and lost time . . . and the ineffable process by which children acquire language and a sense of selfhood and orientation. Time Out
Author Bio
Charles Fernyhough studied developmental psychology at Cambridge University and is now a part-time lecturer in psychology at Durham University. He lives in County Durham with his wife and two children. He is the author of a novel, The Auctioneer (Fourth Estate,1999), and more than 25 research articles. His fiction has appeared in several anthologies, including New Writing 11 and New Writing 14. He has been the recipient of several awards, including from the Arts Council and the Society of Authors.