Product Description
Offering a window on the public and private world of the classroom, this work reveals the feelings and motives, fears and joys, the short-sightedness and the grand vision that both teachers and their children bring to school.
From the Publisher
"The tangled, treacherous lives of today's children make teaching a more difficult, more demanding job than it has ever been. Handle with Care reminds its of that, offering insights that look beneath the daily struggle and strife of the schoolroom into the resilient spirit of the child's heart and its deeply hidden needs." -Lois Lowry, author of the Newberry Medal winners, Number the Stars and The Giver
"Richard Bromfield expertly peels away layer after layer of preconceptions about how children think and what they want, and what secrets they carry with them to the classroom. His book is finally about learning to listen with scrupulous care, so that we can reach the children who inevitably reach for us." -Beth Kephart, author of the National Book Award Finalist, A Slant of Sun and Into the Tangle of Friendship
"A moving and sensitive account of the inner world of teachers and children in schools and the vital connection between them. This book will help teachers and parents to understand each others' deep concerns." -Professor Ellen Winner, Boston College, and author of Gifted Children: Myths and Realities
