"The mystery of conception, pregnancy and birth evoke wonder, even in today's fast paced technical world. The Incarnating Child respects that, 'Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.'" Joan Salter picks up Wordsworth's theme and follows the soul life of tiny babies into childhood and adolescence.

Here are practical insights for mothers, fathers, family and anyone concerned with childcare into:

• Pregnancy, birth, babyhood, early infancy, childhood on up to adolescence
• Children's physical, spiritual and psychological development
• Nurture and the effects of the environment
• The formation of healthy personalities
• Nutrition, immunization and health
• Clothing, toys and early learning in the acquisition of skills and thinking

Available from Hawthorn Press (UK), Steiner Books,  Waldorf Education in Canada