For Charles Fernyhough the birth of his daughter Athena was an opportunity to re-evaluate much of what he had learned as a researcher in developmental psychology. Drawing on the detailed notes he made during her infancy Fernyhough uses Athenas story to explain how a childs mind develops before the age of three tapping into a parents wonder at the processes of psychological development in an engaging child-centered way. It is written with a fathers tenderness & a novelists empathy & style.