Excellent pocket-sized book providing easy-to-follow advice on history-taking, examination and developmental assessment of infants and children (up to school age). Useful on the hospital ward or in the community and for teaching medical students, nurses, and others who have to examine children.Short and readableConcentrates on the 'difficult' ages (babies and pre-school) when verbal communication is most difficult Cartoon-like drawings break up the text and help convey a simple point painlessly