📚 Child Development

From reflex to reason: how a child grows physically, cognitively and socially, and the research that set the milestones everyone quotes.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject child development in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The world of psychology	Samuel E. Wood	1992	40
	Child development	Robert S. Feldman	1997	36
	Infants and children	Laura E. Berk	1993	34
	Infants, children, and adolescents	Laura E. Berk	1993	33
	How children develop	Robert S. Siegler	2002	32
	Children	John W. Santrock	1988	28
	Discussions on Child Development	Barbel Inhelder	2001	28
	On growth and form	Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth	1917	24
	Parent-child relations	Jerry J. Bigner	1979	21
	The secret of childhood	Maria Montessori	1936	20
	The absorbent mind	Maria Montessori	1949	19
	Child development	John W. Santrock	1989	19
	Children	Celia Anita Decker	1990	19
	From Birth to Five Years	Ajay Sharma	1998	17
	The developing child	Holly E. Brisbane	1965	16
	Understanding child development	Rosalind Charlesworth	1983	15
	Positive child guidance	Darla Ferris Miller	1990	13
	Child Development and Education	Teresa M. McDevitt	2009	13
	The developing child	Helen L. Bee	1975	11
	The developing child	Helen Bee	1981	11
	Child development	Danuta Bukatko	1992	11
	Doing Your Early Years Research Project	Guy Roberts-Holmes	2005	11
	Child, family, school, community	Roberta Berns	1996	9
	Neurosis and human growth	Karen Horney	1950	8
	Psychologie de l'enfant	Jean Piaget	1969	8
	Playing and reality	D. W. Winnicott	1971	8
	Understanding children's development	Peter K. Smith	1982	8
	Infants, toddlers, and caregivers	Janet Gonzalez-Mena	1989	8
	Developmentally appropriate curriculum	Marjorie J. Kostelnik	2010	8
	Child psychology	Arthur Thomas Jersild	1933	7

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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