This is a practical, down to earth pocketbook for general practitioners, clinical medical officers and junior hospital paediatricians which can easily be read in a couple of hours and kept handy for immediate reference. As most general practitioners and paediatricians have experience only of sick children in surgeries and hospital they are unused to the kind of problems encountered when dealing with well children who present them with developmental variations or other symptoms but are not acutely ill. The skills necessary to assess such children, and to answer their parents' questions, are not easily acquired in normal practice. It is the purpose of this lively and straightforward book to introduce the reader to the common physical, developmental and emotional problems likely to be met in child health clinics, and to discuss their management.