Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook

This is the book that Maria Montessori wrote in response to requests from thousands of American parents and teachers. A short, illustrated guide to the use of the Montessori classroom materials, it shows how to set up a “children’s house”—an environment for learning where children can be their own masters, free to learn at their own pace.

Frames for lacing and buttoning, geometrical wooden inserts, sound cylinders, sandpaper letters, colored numerical rods: these are familiar features…