Childhood and Children: A Compendium of Customs, Superstitions, Theories, Profiles, and Facts

Childhood and Children is described by its author, Joan Bel Geddes, as “a compendium of customs, superstitions, theories, profiles and facts” and is an attempt to redress the balance between a proliferation of accounts of adult achievement and the paucity of such accounts for children.

Joan Bel Geddes has already written two previous books on children and draws further material and personal observations for this work from her previous editorship of two monthly magazines for parents and her headship of UNICEF’s editorial and publications section. Her wide‐ranging interest and enthusiasm is reflected in the broad scope of topics included in...