Doctor of Psychology, author of the bestseller “Communicate with a child. How?” (AST, 2014) talks about the new series of books “Julia Gippenreiter’s Library”, which began to be published by the AST publishing house.
How was this project born?
The idea was proposed by the editor of the AST publishing house Maria Malorossiyanova. It happens that at seminars I recommend books by other authors, but there is simply nowhere to buy them. They have long become secondhand rarity. These books form the core of the series.
Why did you decide to start with Janusz Korczak, who wrote How to Love a Child almost a century ago?
Korczak’s book has been called “the bible of parenting”. At the time when he lived, children were not considered. Surprisingly, they are not considered even now, in excessive care sometimes forgetting what is really needed: to see a personality in a child, accept it and love it. Korczak is a man of powerful spirit, and he conveyed this spirit to the text.
Read more:
- Julia Gippenreiter: “Follow the child and help him grow”
Alexander Nill, the second author in this series, is almost unknown in our country.
At about the same time, he founded the unique Summerhill School in the UK, where there were no compulsory classes: if you want, go to a lesson, if you don’t want to, play, do what interests you. Sooner or later, after such a free life, all children began to learn. This book is an important conversation about what happens to a child when adults give him the freedom to be himself.
What other authors do you have in the near future?
Memoirs of Lydia Chukovskaya and a collection of stories by a brilliant scientist, physicist Richard Feynman about his father, childhood, youth and first love.