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Aakar Books The Biography of A Baby by Milicent Washburn Shinn
The Biography of a Baby contains some of the most sensitive observations of a baby's first year. The author made her observations throughout her cherished niece's first year, documenting each new behaviour in great, glowing detail. In her exuberant, warm-hearted descriptions one can see the emergence of affective, motor and cognitive learning. Few observers are able to catch all three of these levels. Description of a single child was the method of study in that era and gives the same detailed observations later made so famous by Jean Piaget. Milicent Washburn Shinn was an American child psychologist best known for her seminal systematic observational study of a child.