The Brightening Glance: Imagination and Childhood

by Ellen Handler Spitz

Book Overview

In this original, richly illuminating study of the aesthetic development of children in their primary learning years, Ellen Handler Spitz returns us to the vibrant experience of childhood to explain... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375420584
• ISBN13: 9780375420580
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

A Book Every Parent Should Read

Parents tend to smile inwardly as they read Ellen Handler Spitz's books.....they are both enjoyable and challenging....and open the eyes of parents to new dimensions in their children's lives.  I recommend reading Inside Picture Books as well as The Brightening Glance to parents that I work with.  Both books reveal the depth of children's minds and feelings to their parents and help them to understand how to help their children develop greater emotional and imaginativecapabilities.

A treat for parents hoping to enhance creativity, subtlety, and imagination in their chldren

The Brightening Glance opens a path into the world of children in a unique and delightful way. Parents and other interested adults are treated to the secrets of tuning into a child's perspective on the world, and then see how to enrich the child's outlook in subtle and supportive ways. This book parallels the noted child psychiatrist Stanley Greenspan's ideas of reciprocal interaction in "floor play" - but it is concerned with a more elaborated version of developing children's interactions and creativity. Parents are under so much pressure today that they often rush through the time they spend with their children. The Brightening Glance can help them to slow down and absorb the richness of the world, for their own benefit as well as for their children's. Those who are familiar with Dr. Spitz's earlier work, Inside Picture Books know already what kind of pleasure awaits them in reading this new book.