over one thousand pages with copious illustrations, some in colours. It is on much the usual lines of such books, but is very complete and up-to-date. The sections relating to tropical diseases are rather more full than in most students' books. The plate illustrating malarial parasites shows unstained forms, which might well be replaced by one showing the parasites stained by one of the modific...

Twelve parents of young deaf children were recorded sharing books with their deaf child--six from families using British Sign Language (BSL) and six from families using spoken English. Although all families were engaged in sharing books with their deaf child and concerned to promote literacy development, they approached the task differently and had different expectations in terms of outcome. Th...