Introduction, Christiane Lange-Kuttner and Glyn Thomas; the myth of the sensory core - the traditional versus the ecological approach to children's drawings, Alan Costall; an information-processing approach to drawing development, John Willats; observational, experimental and neuropsychological studies of drawing, Peter van Sommers; from line to outline, John M. Kennedy et al; the transformation of figurative thought - implications of Piaget and Inhelder's developmental theory for children's drawings, Christiane Lange-Kuttner and Emiel Reith; a neo-Piagetian approach to children's drawings, Sergio Morra; the role of drawing strategies and skills, Glyn V. Thomas; children's understanding about pictures, Rebecca Nye et al; the emergence of a framework theory of pictorial reasoning, Norman Freeman; the psychological function of children's drawing - a Vygotskian perspective, Anna Stetsenko; the contribution of social factors to the development of graphic competence, Christiane Lange-Kuttner and Wolfgang Edelstein.