Книга выдающегося американского психолога Д.Стерна необычна, она представляет собой одновременно и научное, и художественное произведение.
Это - дневник младенца, основанный на реальных наблюдениях и событиях. Автор дает возможность ребенку `рассказать` о себе то, что можно узнать лишь в результате многочисленных кропотливых исследований: что и как он видит, слышит, чувствует, как переживает различные ситуации.

"Fifty-fifty - something better than rolling Easter eggs." Sharing a drink at the White House Easter-egg roll in 1922.

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Саша

A joyful baby takes a spin in a walker in 1905.

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Family of migrant potato pickers in Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California. September 1939

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Таня и Миша

New York City, July 31, 1913. "Children at Play.

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February 1912. Port Royal, South Carolina. "Nine [?] of these children from 8 yrs. old up go to school half a day, and shuck oysters for four hours before school and three hours after on school days, and on Saturday from 4 a.m. to early afternoon. Maggioni Canning Co."

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December 1943. "Lynn Massman, wife of a second class petty officer who is studying in Washington, does the washing every morning."

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It's November in 1954 and you're an 8 year-old boy; given the following options, what do you do? a) Watch TV; b) Play with cool toy MG sports car; c) Unroll giant set of maps and trace the borders of Czechoslovakia. Made sense to me then. Actually, I still understand it.

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