Old Bob gets a teddy bear for his birthday because he never had one as a child, but his grandaughter, thinking the bear deserves better than to be stuck between dusty books, wants to take him home.

A big brown bear turns blue with paint when a little bear accidentally knocks over his ladder with her baseball bat.

A big brown bear turns blue with paint when a little bear accidentally knocks over his ladder with her baseball bat.

A group of toy animals try various ways of rescuing Old Bear from the attic.

Children see a variety of animals, each one a different color, and a teacher looking at them. Includes note to parents and teachers, and related activities.

Jean Piaget, although internationally acclaimed for his revolutionary ideas about human intellectual development and how children learn, has been misunderstood by many of those attempting to interpret his theories and apply them. Fortunately, this dialogue between Dr. Evans and Piaget provides the student and general reader with a clear and accurate explanation of his theories and how he arrived at them. As David Elkind writes in the Introduction, Piaget's findings "are effecting a veritable Copernican revolution in our understanding of the growth and functioning of the human mind."