The Block Book

Elisabeth S. Hirsch [Editor]

ISBN 10: 0935989765 / ISBN 13: 9780935989762

Published by The National Association for the Education of Young Children, 1996

Seller Inventory # 0935989765-3-36928929

Synopsis:

For engaging children's hands, minds, and imaginations, no tool surpasses blocks. 

Engrossed in building with blocks, the child is a mathematician, scientist, architect. stage designer, and storyteller. And as children build together, they stretch and grow as problem solvers and collaborators.

The Block Book was the first comprehensive book to explore the values and uses of unit blocks for extending children's growth and development. Using blocks builds self-confidence, enhances social skill, facilitates vocabulary development, and it stimulates eye-hand-body coordination, which are so important for the development of reading skills. As they build with blocks, children discover, invent, imagine, and construct a fuller understanding of their world. 

This book, a classic in early childhood education, has been expanded and updated so that teachers and parents can discover exciting possibilities for the effective use of blocks. The time-tested understandings that have made The Block Book a classic are still here, refined and extended with new material that makes the third edition better than ever.

About the Author: Elisabeth S. Hirsch, Ph.D., was a teacher of preschoolers in independent private schools and parent cooperatives for many years. She was director of a parent cooperative and a day care center.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Block Book
Publisher: The National Association for the Education of Young Children
Publication Date: 1996
Binding: paperback
Condition: Good
Edition: 3rd Edition