Your Child at Play Three to Five Years: Conversation, Creativity, and Learning Letters, Words, and Numbers by Marilyn Segal
293 pages	Newmarket Press	November 1998	Hardcover

Children are complex and amazing little beings. Your Child at Play: Three to Five Years deciphers some of the mystery surrounding preschool play, offers suggestions for parents, and presents play ideas for the many aspects of development.

Your Child at Play is broken into six sections; Playing with Ideas, Active Play, The Scientist at Work, Playing School, Playing With Friends, and Ways of Playing. Each section is then further broken down into more specific chapters within the section umbrella. The setup of the book works as a great reference tool, following the index for the particular developmental or situational phase your child is going through.

Guiding parents through difficult times such as talking about death or dying, confusing times such as when a child has created an imaginary friend, and exciting times like when children begin to grasp reading, Your Child at Play is full of excellent suggestions for handling various situations and play ideas to further develop and guide your child.

Your Child at Play is an easy-to-read, comprehensive look at the preschool years. Parents will benefit from a better understanding of what their child is going through and what it means, gain greater confidence in how to handle or enhance the various types of play, and learn the most effective way to be involved in their child’s play.