The Development of Children Save Now

This popular textbook is an authoritative chronological exploration of how the lives of children are shaped by biological and cultural factors. The book offers a lively, engaging, and always accessible examination of child development as a process involving the whole child within multiple, mutually influencing contexts. This is an accessible introduction to Developmental Psychology for students taking courses that focus on child and adolescent development.

Cynthia Lightfoot is Professor of Human Development and acting head of Psychology as the Pennsylvania State University, Brandywine.Michael Cole is an all-University of California Professor of Psychology, Communication, and Human Development. His home base is University of California, San Diego, where he is the Director of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition.Sheila R. Cole is a former journalist who specialized in writing about families, children, development, and education. She also writes books for children.