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The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids

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Pulitzer Prize-winning design critic Alexandra Lange's eye-opening exploration of how children's playthings and physical surroundings affect their development, from building blocks to city blocks.

Parents obsess over their children's playdates, kindergarten curriculum, and every bump and bruise, but the toys, classrooms, playgrounds, and neighborhoods little ones engage with are just as important. These objects and spaces encode decades, even centuries of changing ideas about what makes for...