Before the Basics: Creating Conversations With Children

With a clear-eyed and affectionately stated insistence that parents and teachers focus on the young child as center of the learning process, Bev Bos presents the elegantly simple language-development methods that have so inspired her audiences at workshops and keynote addresses throughout the Western US and Canada. She extends the techniques of her first book, Don't Move the Muffin Tins, into the area of language development, with a strong appeal to parents and teachers to retain their own sense of playfulness and wonder.