Interprets the meaning of children's drawing and painting within the context of their overall development. The book shows that drawing has meaning for children from their earliest years and explains the relationship between graphic representation and play.

Selected e-content from Google Books: https://goo.gl/sDJzeH
Review from World Cat:
The traditional approach to early childhood education describes a child's development in terms of supposed deficits. The child progresses from a primitive early stage to superior ones later. John Matthews presents a revision of his previous book on children and visual representation that reflects recent research findings.