{"product_id":"9781448211265","title":"The Year of the Child","description":"Bel Mooney has taken twelve children from different parts of the British Isles and observed them over a year as they play, learn and grow. She saw Denise being born, watched Gemma, the daughter of a company executive, at her nursery school and heard the fears of the parents of Donald, a West Indian child from Birmingham. She saw David in preparatory school and Melanie in her comprehensive; talked to a fourteen-year-old Asian boy about his experience of race, and to a ten-year-old Welsh boy about family violence.   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe twelve chapters in The Year of the Child mirror the stages in a child's development from total dependence to independence and self-awareness and the beginnings of a critical attitude to the world around – a world in which he or she, whatever the social background, has had very little personal choice. The Year of the Child makes a valuable contribution to social history, describing six boys and six girls from different parts of the British Isles and from three broad social groups; it goes beyond journalism and social comment to become a re-enactment of what the author calls 'that cyclical loss of innocence which is at the root of human experience'.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47140360225008,"sku":"9781448211265","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781448211265_p0.jpg?v=1763830470","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781448211265","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}