This book is about my attempts to understand children, especially their ability and desire to express themselves in their own natural ways. My attempts began with crafts, and these drew my attention to the individual idiom of each child in art, music, in movement, in drama and ultimately in language. After a time Eunice Foster came and worked with me ... She helped especially with the development of art and crafts in the infant room, and then with drama and writing. Later Cherry Raymond came, and in her time we learned to understand much about the individual idiom that each child can develop in language when encouraged ..."--Introduction.