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Hardcover: 264 pages
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York (August 31, 2012)
This is an impressive appendix to the MoMa exibition, which exists as an interesting book by its own. With reliable text, good quality illustrations and expanded topics connected with children's culture. Highly recommended.
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To better understand the role of Froebel and the development of the kindergarten this book is essential. Froebel believed children should be nurtured like flowers in a garden and taught about the world around them at a young age. (Kindergarten is a German word meaning children’s garden.)
Froebel was convinced that children could learn about the universe, nature, and life by playing with blocks. He often packaged the blocks with sticks and colored paper and marketed them as “gifts.” In Froebel’s kindergarten, children would create buildings, furniture, and whatever they could imagine using the “gifts.” Not all of the blocks were rectangular; some were round, triangular and even cylindrical. Certain blocks could be attached to strings, which hung from a wooden apparatus like a trapeze. This book helped us better understand Froebel's influence on Frank Lloyd Wright and the importance of early education for our forthcoming book "Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man who Played with Blocks, A Short Illustrated Biography."
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