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80ROCKY MOUNTAIN REVIEW Dorothy G. Singer, and Tracey A. Revenson, A Piaget Primer: How a Child Thinks. New York: New American Library, 1978. 148 p. $3.95. Singer and Revenson have done a commendable job in making some of Piaget's groundbreaking work on how a child learns to understand the world accessible to the average reader (not to mention the many academicians for whom his theories still remain difficult to understand). Through the use of examples from children's literature (primarily Alice in Wonderland and Winnie the Pooh) and cartoons, the writers attempt to illustrate Piaget's concepts and views. The book is not meant, however to be a substitute for reading Piaget's writings but rather to serve as an introduction or supplement to them. The book begins with a biographical sketch of Piaget followed by chapters dealing with: the stages of a child's development; how intelligence develops; playing and imitating; how language develops; discoveringspace, time and numbers; and learning about right and wrong. The last chapter entitled Beyond Piaget includes a summary, and recommendations for prekindergarten screening and for monitoring a child's television viewing . A Glossary and an Index are included in addition to the References. Although the book is not written with the "minimum simplicity" claimed by the authors, their style nevertheless is clear, concise and encourages further reading. The selections from children's literature are appropriately chosen and well integrated into the text. The cartoons which were not drawn by the writers but taken from strips like Peanuts, Miss Peach, Hi and Lois and others, are an effective device to clarify the various points that the authors are trying to make regarding Piaget's theories. In summary, A Piaget Primer: How a Child Thinks is a very valuable contribution to the understanding of Piaget's work and a must in the reading list of parents, teachers, students of child psychology and anyone else interested in child development. ROSA M. FERNANDEZ, University of New Mexico Katherine Snipes, Robert Graves New York: Frederick Ungar, 1979. 222 p. $13.50. A recent addition to Ungar's Modern Literature Monographs, this study of a writer whom Prof. Snipes with much justice calls "the most persistent literary maverick of our time" should be welcome to anyone interested in any aspect of Graves long and diverse career. Like others in the series concise, this book deals fairly and sensitively with its subject's life and works. After a tabular Chronology and brief Biography the following thirteen chapters, eschewing chronological order, begin with a consideration of Graves' "White Goddess" thesis and poems, proceed into his other poetry, his mythological and biblical novels, his controversial biblical scholarship, ...

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