The Well Balanced Child: Movement and Early Learning , 2nd ed.
by Sally Goddard Blythe
Hawthorn Press, 2005 (280 pages)
Reviewed by Susan Seale
This is one of those rare books that provides essential information to parents and teachers interested in building or correcting the foundation upon which all learning attaches itself. Blythe writes about a whole body approach to learning that integrates play, movement, development of the senses, and the growing brain.
The forward was written by the well-known psychiatrist and neurologist Harold Levinson, M.D. He asserts that the depth and scope of the developmental insights presented within this book work are absolutely vital to all…