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Young Children and Their Drawings
by Joseph H. Dilco, MD, 384 pp, $29.95, ISBN: 0-87630-833-7, New York, NY, Bruner/Mazel Inc, 1996.
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 1999;153:95.
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This is a fascinating compilation of children's drawings through which normal and abnormal development can be studied.
The book is divided into 2 sections. The first section, "The Usual and the Normative," discusses the normal developmental process that occurs in children, from simple scribbling to drawing human forms. Chapters include the following: "Earliest Drawings: The Kinesthetic Stage," "Transition from Kinesthetic to Representational Drawing," "Representational Not Reproduction," and "The Human Figure Evolves."
The author demonstrates the creativity found in children before reality and structures are learned, such as the primacy of the head when children first draw a human figure and the omission or overemphasis of certain body parts. In the chapter, "Past and Present," the author provides examples of drawings from the past revealing similar drawing tendencies, concluding that children's drawings have not changed in their developmental process over the years. Drawings 30 years ago are almost identical to drawings . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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