| PAGE | |||
| I. | Introductory, | 1 | |
| II. | The Age of Imagination, | 25 | |
| Why we call Children Imaginative, | 25 | ||
| Imaginative Transformation of Objects, | 28 | ||
| Imagination and Play, | 35 | ||
| Free Projection of Fancies, | 51 | ||
| Imagination and Storyland, | 54 | ||
| III. | The Dawn of Reason, | 64 | |
| The Process of Thought, | 64 | ||
| The Questioning Age, | 75 | ||
| IV. | Products of Child-Thought, | 91 | |
| The Child’s Thoughts about Nature, | 91 | ||
| Psychological Ideas, | 109 | ||
| Theological Ideas, | 120 | ||
| V. | The Little Linguist, | 133 | |
| Prelinguistic Babblings, | 133 | ||
| Transition to Articulate Speech, | 138 | ||
| Beginnings of Linguistic Imitation, | 147 | ||
| Transformation of our Words, | 148 | ||
| Logical Side of Children’s Language, | 160 | ||
| Sentence-building, | 170 | ||
| Getting at our Meanings, | 183 | ||
| VI. | Subject to Fear, | 191 | |
| Children’s Sensibility, | 191 | ||
| Startling Effect of Sounds, | 194 | ||
| Fear of Visible Things, | 198 | ||
| The Fear of Animals, | 207 | ||
| Fear of the Dark, | 211 | ||
| Fears and their Palliatives, | 219 | ||
| VII. | Raw Material of Morality, | 228 | |
| Primitive Egoism, | 228 | ||
| Germs of Altruism, | 242 | ||
| Children’s Lies, | 251 | ||
| VIII. | Under Law, | 267 | |
| The Struggle with Law, | 267 | ||
| On the Side of Law, | 277 | ||
| The Wise Law-giver, | 290 | ||
| IX. | The Child as Artist, | 298 | |
| First Responses to Natural Beauty, | 300 | ||
| Early Attitude Towards Art, | 307 | ||
| Beginnings of Art-production, | 317 | ||
| X. | The Young Draughtsman, | 331 | |
| First Attempts to Draw, | 331 | ||
| First Drawings of the Human Figure, | 335 | ||
| Front and Side View of Human Figure, | 356 | ||
| First Drawings of Animals, | 372 | ||
| Men on Horseback, etc., | 377 | ||
| Résumé of Facts, | 382 | ||
| Explanation of Facts, | 385 | ||
| XI. | Extracts From a Father’s Diary, | 399 | |
| First Year, | 400 | ||
| Second Year, | 416 | ||
| Third Year, | 436 | ||
| Fourth Year, | 452 | ||
| Fifth Year, | 464 | ||
| Sixth Year, | 480 | ||
| XII. | George Sand’s Childhood, | 489 | |
| The First Years, | 489 | ||
| A Self-evolved Religion, | 506 | ||
| Bibliography, | 515 | ||
| Index, | 519 | ||