◎contents 1. Opening the "black box" 2. Infancy : creating the foundations of intelligence 3. Children's brains at work : from nursery to schoolroom 4. If the train is late, will we miss the boat? : developmental timetables 5. Childhood into adolescence : furnishing tje adult mind 6. " A path to the future" : bridging the hemispheres 7. " Do pigs have wishbones?" unfolding language 8. What is intelligence? 9. Children read with their brains 10. Thinking on paper : writing and spelling 11. Pars into wholes : building math skills 12. The toolshed muse : creative minds inprocess