Child Cries Research Articles

What I find difficult in BPBP

Management of obstetrical palsies is a challenge for a variety of reasons. Explaining and counseling the parents: There is no doubt that the injury has occurred because of excessive force in delivering the baby. However, this has to be conveyed without blaming either the midwife or the obstetrician. The deficit is usually obvious to the clinician but the parents find it difficult to accept. The concept of nerves and the fact that different nerves are responsible for different functions is fundamental. Very often, ordinary household examples are necessary to make them understand the severity of the injury without, at the same time, frightening them about the future consequences. An honest and detailed discussion is necessary at the outset. Offering surgery: Extensive palsies are evident and most parents accept surgical treatment readily. The real difficulty is explaining the uncertain and, often, limited possibility of restoration of function. The majority of patients have suffered lesions of the C5 and C6 roots. There is no doubt that surgery should be offered early if spontaneous recovery is not seen. The rate of progressive improvement is the crux and repeated observations are necessary. The pectoralis major function enables trick movements that can fool the clinician. Incorrect interpretation of the function at the early stages can push us to defer surgery. The consequences of such a conservative attitude are only evident over two-three years when the shoulder function remains poor with development of deformities. Only experience can help arrive at a better evaluation. Evaluation of nerve stumps and trimming: The primary operation in obstetrical palsies is always systematic exploration of the brachial plexus. The upper trunk is identified with the help of the suprascapular nerve and it is traced proximally. The phrenic nerve is isolated and the nerves are examined at the intervertebral foramina. The branches to the serratus anterior should be looked for and stimulated (under the microscope). The appearance of the sectioned stump needs careful evaluation. The quality of shoulder function restored depends on the number of growing axons directed to the posterior division of the upper trunk. Dissection within the foramina is often difficult. One must reach proximal to the zone of injury to ensure use of a good stump. Post-operative immobilization: Movements of the head and neck must be prevented. This is particularly true when nerve grafting is done. Older children are, obviously, more active and immobilizing them is a daunting task. The parents are instructed to maintain strict attention throughout the waking hours for a month. Post-operative therapy: Most children are operated upon at 4-5 months of age. Nerve transfers such as ulnar-biceps or intercostals to musculocutaneous produce contractions within 3-4 months. However, it is difficult to communicate the mechanism of activating the muscle to an 8 months old baby. The parents are instructed to encourage the child to grasp objects in a manner designed to produce biceps action. The child will use the biceps only when it perceives strong contraction of the muscle. This task is even more difficult for intercostals. Often, we can see the biceps contracting when the child cries but active elbow flexion can take two years to appear. Automatically, the use of the hand function is delayed. Incorporation of the restored function in daily activity: Delay in nerve reconstruction prolongs the period of weak shoulder and elbow functions. As a result, the child cannot reach out for an object and take it to the mouth at the suitable time. This pushes me to offer surgery at an early stage if the shoulder abduction and biceps do not appear by three months.

Let children cry

Let children cry

The Application Of Deaf Children Language Ability Development Of 3-5 Years Old Children

Descriptive Study of the Application of Deaf Children Language Development in TLO (Taman Latihan dan Observasi) Class in Semarang State Special School. Faculty of Education. Semarang State University. Indonesia. The Application of deaf children language ability development is a teaching-learning activity focusing on deaf children language acquisition through approaches, methods and media adapted to the children condition and needs. The research aims to 1) describe deaf children language development, 2) explain the application of deaf children language ability development in TLO (Taman Latihan dan Observasi) class in Semarang State Special School, 3) explain push-pull factors of the application of deaf children language ability development in TLO (Taman Latihan dan Observasi) class in Semarang State Special School. The research employed a qualitative descriptive method to understand the phenomenon happened by the research subjects, namely the language they possess, and push-pull factors of deaf children language ability. The subjects of the research are deaf students at the age of 3-5 in the TLO class of Semarang State Special School. The data of the research were collected by observation, interview, and documentation. They were analyzed by data reduction, data presentation, verification, and conclusion. The results show that most of all deaf children in TLO class were cried at post delivery as normal do. The fact that they have no stimulation response is a symptom their parents observe. Therefore, the push-pull factor here is the active role of the parents. Hence, there are three conclusions according to the research, namely the cry of deaf children at post delivery as normal do, heart to heart approach done by teachers and the active role of the parents in deaf language development. It is suggested that the teachers are expected to be more creative to conduct teaching activity. In addition, the community support is needed while government and education department formulate learning curriculum for special need children. As for the writer, the research is expected to analyze lesson plan.How to citeWantoro, W., Diana, D., & SP, Y. (2014). The Application Of Deaf Children Language Ability Development Of 3-5 Years Old Children. Indonesian Journal Of Early Childhood Education Studies, 3(2), 134-138. doi:10.15294/ijeces.v3i2.9487

Let children cry.

Let children cry.

Tableaux

Tableaux S.P. MacIntyre (bio) For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the day may be blue and gold, but the light that creeps down through the thickly-muffled glass of the small iron-barred window beneath which one sits is grey and niggard. It is always twilight in one’s cell, as it is always twilight in one’s heart. And in the sphere of thought, no less than in the sphere of time, motion is no more. —Oscar Wilde, “Di Profundis” She stands at the bedroom window watching her boys; they cannot see her. A trick of the light, the way the sun renders the glass opaque from an outside vantage. Her boys play Cowboys and Indians on the lawn: the two oldest are cowboys with index-and-thumb guns, the youngest is bound up in the garden hose, leaves smashed in his hair to resemble feathers. Jeremy, her oldest son, brags about his skill with a rifle; her middle son, Jason, challenges him to prove it at the carnival tomorrow. She pries apart the louvers of the blinds, her fingers taking up the gritty dust there. Josh, the youngest, verges on tears as his brothers hoot and holler: he is so sensitive, her youngest son. —They were clowning around, her husband would say. Stop coddling the boy. —We were just playing, didn’t mean nothing by it, her oldest sons would say. She knows what they would say, how they would react were she to step in, so she does nothing. The louvers are horizontal bars, she imagines. She imagines herself as both guard and prisoner, suspended between two roles. The scene before her seems frozen in time, framed by the window, a tableau of small cruelties. She does not move until the youngest escapes, gets pushed to the street, bleeds. [End Page 80] Her child cries. The scraped skin of his knee is black with asphalt. The iodine makes him cry and he squirms to get away from the pain his mother bestows. She holds on to prevent him running out the door. She thinks about signals, the division between sender and recipient. Children know pain, this is given. Josh is closer to her than his brothers, who seem now so much like their father: Jeremy and Jason mime smoking together with twigs, they talk about baseball and airplanes and cars, they pounce on the youngest at the remotest sign of weakness. All things her husband does: they absorb it. Every action an utterance, the children align these utterances—the signal—with the sender, their father or their mother. And what transmission does Josh receive now? Pain, necessary but inescapable pain that originates from his mother. She wishes to avoid this alignment, but he is wounded, and wounds must be cleaned lest they deepen, fester, consume. She knows exactly what her husband would say: —Nice one, rub some dirt on it. But a fine line exists between masculine nonchalance and callousness. Better she teach him different, impart on him some other lesson. She folds her legs under her and bends down to kiss her son’s knee. Her lips press soft against the pink, wet part of his scraped skin, the smell of iodine catching her nose and leaving a metallic taste reminiscent of seafood on her lips. —There, she says, looking up at him. —There. All better? He keeps his lips tucked in and tight, drawing down the corners of his mouth. He nods without speaking. —You’re fine, love, you’re fine. She sweeps his hair, feels something swelling inside her: like love, perhaps, or the choke before a sob. When her youngest leaves, she begins cleaning the bathroom. She wears yellow rubber gloves, cleans the grout of the shower tiles with the toilet brush [End Page 81] and bleach, wiping up dirt, hair, fingernails, soap scum, spilled iodine, and what might be congealed semen. Suffering, she thinks, relies on second-order thought. There is grime in the shower—fact. She is aware there is grime in the shower: fact. The former prompts reaction (disgust comes first to mind) while...

Index of SuspicionCase 1: Raccoon Eyes in an 8-Month-Old InfantCase 2: Jaundice in a Teenage GirlCase 3: Extreme Muscle Weakness in a 10-Year-Old Boy

The reader is encouraged to write possible diagnoses for each case before turning to the discussion. We invite readers to contribute case presentations and discussions. Please inquire first by contacting Dr Deepak Kamat at DKamat@med.wayne.edu. An 8-month-old boy presents to the emergency department with a right-sided facial droop for 1 day and blackish bruising around both his eyes resembling raccoon eyes for a week. His mother reports that the child had fallen from a couch 2 weeks earlier. The child has also been fussy, with decreased feeding for 3 days. He has no history of fever, and findings from a review of his systems are otherwise unremarkable. Medical history, family history, and social history are also unremarkable. On examination, the child is fussy but alert. Vital signs are normal: temperature, 98.7°F (37.0°C); heart rate, 108 beats per minute; respiratory rate, 32 breaths per minute; and blood pressure, 98/60 mm Hg. Anterior fontanelle is soft and flat. There is right-sided ptosis and drooping of the right side of the mouth, especially apparent when the child cries. There are no other focal deficits, and the rest of the neurologic examination findings are normal. Ecchymoses are seen extending, approximately a centimeter, circumferentially around both eyes. The liver is firm and palpable 3 cm below the right costal margin. The rest of the physical examination findings are normal. Initial laboratory evaluation reveals the following: hemoglobin, 7.7 g/dL (77 g/L); mean corpuscular volume, 80.7 fL; white blood cell count, 12,390/μL (12.39 × 109/L); and platelet count, 298 × 103/μL (298 × 109/L). Computed tomography (CT) of the head without contrast reveals no evidence of intracranial bleeding. Further investigations reveal an explanation for the child’s constellation of symptoms and anemia. A 13-year-old girl presents to the emergency department with a …

Media, Mimesis, and the Figure of the Orphan in William Carlos Williams’s Life Along the Passaic River

finest short stories are those that raise, in short, one particular man or woman, from that Gehenna, newspapers, where at last all men are equal, to distinction of being an individual. To be responsive not to ordinances of herd (Russia-like) but to extraordinary responsibility of being person.-William Carlos Williams, A Beginning on Short Story (Notes)He judges not as judge judges but as sun falling round helpless thing.-Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of GrassThe world's an orphan's home.-Marianne Moore, Distrust of MeritsIn his 1938 short-story collection Life Along Passaic River, Wil- liams emphasizes discrepancy between realist verisimilitude and modernist self-reflexivity to dramatize plight of poor due to general economic conditions, particularly through metaphor of orphan. In addition, figurations of family, both positive and negative, offer an imaginative survey of possibilities and pitfalls for remedying orphan's predica- ment. The signs of personal dignity and creativity that permeate Williams's collec- tion of stories testify to capacity and culture of marginalized people. Such accomplishments are all more admirable for existing in face of being cut off, or orphaned, from beneficial resources that ought to be available. Williams's narrative map of Passaic reveals how such achievements help people cope with losses symbolized by orphanhood. In what follows, several stories will be singled out as figuring orphan (the first date of publication follows each title in parentheses): title story (1934), Girl with Pimply (1934), Use of Force (1933), Jean Beicke (1933), A Face of Stone (1935), Under Greenwood Tree (1938), and World's End (1938).In title story, which also opens volume, Williams draws reader into his fictive world by following contours of Passaic River and variety of human activities in relation to it.1 The syntax of opening sentence pays hom- age to landscape by imitating river's drift, but also carefully establishes urban setting of collection by calling attention to factory on river as well as children playing along river's banks. The visual appeal of first sentence has cinematic intensity, zooming in on a spot of canoe filled by small boy who no doubt made it (FD 109). Williams also includes soundtrack to his midstream portrait when he alludes to a sound of work going on there from Manhattan Rubber Co. By carefully situating his reader in this richly elaborated world, Williams sets stage for participant-observer ethos of much of his collection and conjures vivid reality.2 In Robert Gish's words, the narrator [ . . . ] is so moved to empathy that he passes beyond voyeur to partici- pant through telling and retelling of their lives (66).At same time, in very next paragraph Williams reminds his readers of mediated quality of his portrait by focusing on children's cry of Paper! (FD 109). In doing so, Williams unites his commitment to local, historicized realism with self-reflexive form of representation common in modernist writing. He makes readers notice variety of material modes or media (visual as well as linguistic) available for depicting Passaic. And he draws attention to his own man- ner of representation, formal techniques for rendering that world. By uniting what Stephen Halliwell calls mimesis as referential imitation to mimesis as per- spectival world-making in opening scenes of this first story in collection, Williams invites his readers both to experience world of Passaic, New Jersey, first-hand through an absorbingly realistic verisimilitude and to notice his artis- tic creation of that world through modernist self-consciousness about form (5).3 In other words, realist mimesis is generally content-based, while modernist mimesis is more oriented toward process of creation necessary for representa- tion. …

Parent Health Literacy and “Obesogenic” Feeding and Physical Activity-Related Infant Care Behaviors

To examine the relationship between parent health literacy and "obesogenic" infant care behaviors. Cross-sectional analysis of baseline data from a cluster randomized controlled trial of a primary care-based early childhood obesity prevention program (Greenlight). English- and Spanish-speaking parents of 2-month-old children were enrolled (n = 844). The primary predictor variable was parent health literacy (Short Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults; adequate ≥ 23; low <23). Primary outcome variables involving self-reported obesogenic behaviors were: (1) feeding content (more formula than breast milk, sweet drinks, early solid food introduction), and feeding style-related behaviors (pressuring to finish, laissez-faire bottle propping/television [TV] watching while feeding, nonresponsiveness in letting child decide amount to eat); and (2) physical activity (tummy time, TV). Multivariate logistic regression analyses (binary, proportional odds models) performed adjusting for child sex, out-of-home care, Women, Infants, and Children program status, parent age, race/ethnicity, language, number of adults/children in home, income, and site. Eleven percent of parents were categorized as having low health literacy. Low health literacy significantly increased the odds of a parent reporting that they feed more formula than breast milk, (aOR = 2.0 [95% CI: 1.2-3.5]), immediately feed when their child cries (aOR = 1.8 [1.1-2.8]), bottle prop (aOR = 1.8 [1.002-3.1]), any infant TV watching (aOR = 1.8 [1.1-3.0]), and inadequate tummy time (<30 min/d), (aOR = 3.0 [1.5-5.8]). Low parent health literacy is associated with certain obesogenic infant care behaviors. These behaviors may be modifiable targets for low health literacy-focused interventions to help reduce childhood obesity.

Recritude: Reflections on Postural Ontology

Recritude: Reflections on Postural Ontology

Recritude: Reflections on Postural Ontology

Recritude: Reflections on Postural Ontology

A case of sleep bruxism treated through behavioural change using hypnosis

The mouth has been a natural site for release of stress. Right from the time of birth, a new born child cries and attracts attention of parents during stress. As the child grows, they spit and bite to release stress and frustration. As an adult, the same child uses abusive language, alcohol, smokes, and uses drugs (all orally) to release stress. Clenching, grinding, and bruxism are also a form of stress release using the oral route. Dentist is the first to detect such habit, and treat such cases with habit breaking appliances, which usually fail. This article highlights the need to refer cases for psychiatric treatment and hypnotherapy may be a choice of treatment. A female aged 26 year, reported with pain in all her teeth due to bruxism. All conventional dental treatments failed. This outlined a strong psychological component, hence hypnosis was tried. A 5-year follow-up showed no relapse.

Behavioural treatments to encourage solo sleeping in pre-school children: An alternative to controlled crying

Behavioural sleep treatments teach children to self soothe and sleep alone but often require a parent to ignore their child's cries for extended periods, a technique parents may find difficult. This paper presents a modified version of sleep training which aims to improve sleep but reduce crying in children and increase compliance in parents. Thirty-three children (Mean [SD] age = 27.01 [13.4] mths) from a clinical non-controlled population presenting with Behavioural Insomnia of Childhood, utilised a five-week sleep training method that teaches parents to gradually withdraw their assistance, allowing them to attend and calm their child whenever they choose and not to ignore their cries, components that differ from commonly utilised methods. Post treatment, all negative sleep associations, co-sleeping and family stress were reduced and all measures of sleep significantly improved: total night time sleep; time taken until sleep onset (SOL) and minutes awake during the night (WASO) (all p = < 0.002) with large treatment effects sizes (d = 0.94-1.85). Whilst the results are preliminary, this may offer an alternative method to explore in larger studies, given that many parents may have difficulty with ignoring the extended bouts of crying which often accompany commonly utilised sleep training methods.

“The Children Cry for Burger King”: Modernity, Development, and Fast Food Consumption in Northern Honduras

While food prices are on the rise in Honduras (and throughout much of the world), many northern Hondurans report consuming fast food at international chain restaurants in San Pedro Sula (SPS). What follows is an analysis of fast food consumption amongst relatively impoverished residents of peri-urban towns on the outskirts of SPS. This paper—based on ethnographic investigation and analysis of newspaper advertisements—explores how foreign-based fast food establishments are perceived, used, and discussed, and the ways in which they are accepted and contested. The author argues that fast food consumption represents an important social activity and a topic around which debates about the meanings of modernity and development have arisen. While fast food consumption has been accepted as a sign of modernity and progress by some, others disparage such consumption, which they see as a dangerous turn away from more traditional Honduran values and foods. Because fast food consumption also has far-reaching political-economic effects and implications, the essay concludes with a brief discussion of such larger issues. In particular, the author highlights the global, national, and regional political-economic forces that foster unequal competition in a “free trade” context. The essay draws attention to the actors and forces which make international fast food chains in northern Honduras the only restaurants in their price range capable of offering clean, high-quality dining atmospheres complete with children's entertainment.

An Introduction to Chinese Early Childhood Inclusion

Jiangmei’s experience at the regular preschool is a beautiful fairy tale. She was not allowed to enroll at the preschool in our neighborhood because of her disability (cerebral palsy). We then tried a special education school for a short period of time. In the special class, Jiangmei was always distracted by other studentswhowereolderthanherwhentheteacherpatientlyreadtoher.Nonstop cries of children at the school were much more unforgettable to her than special education teachers’ loving voices. … Finally we decided to home school her… Fortunately, Jiangmei’s father found out about an inclusion program and now Jiangmei walks into the preschool with a big smile on her face every day. As soon as she sees the front gate of the school, she starts to clap and jump while getting off her father’s bicycle. I feel that this program is so beneficial to her development both physically and emotionally… My daughter is not mistreated or discriminated here like an ugly duckling. Instead she was embraced with friendship, respect, and equality. I see how happy she is every day and how the program has helped her…I sincerely appreciate the civilization of our society becauseany life isrespected and valued and everychild might beable toreceive equal education… Every time the phone rings in our house, the first thing Jiangmei says on the phone is ‘I went to school today’. To her, nothing is more important than that…So thank you from the bottom of my heart! A letter from a mother of child with cerebral palsy to an inclusion pilot preschool in Beijing

On the Seventh Day of Christmas

On the Seventh Day of Christmas Marsha Mathews (bio) Right now he is with her, doing the things that once made me laugh & shiver & feel as if I were part of what is real: the blanket, the floor, the street, the carols. I go out, try to shop, but the crowds squeeze me, jeer. Home, I hope unfamiliar walls will hold me upright. I work to exhaustion, clean windows, floors, string lights in the windows. The children sense something, cling & cry & fight for my lap. As I dress them for bed, I realize something is gone from my touch. Depleted of gentleness, I’m no longer the blanket, but the tear in it; nor the floor, but the creak in it; nor the street, but the dried tar beneath a road leading nowhere. [End Page 45] Marsha Mathews Marsha Mathews teaches creative writing, composition, and literature at Dalton State College in Georgia and serves as advisor to the college literary magazine, Tributaries. She came to Appalachia in 1996 to direct the Wesley Foundation in Wise, Virginia, and pastor two churches in Coeburn. Copyright © 2009 Berea College

Comparative Analysis of Crying in Children with Autism, Developmental Delays, and Typical Development

Crying behavior and mother-infant interactions during episodes of crying were coded using the Cry Observation Codes and then compared for 48 mother-infant dyads of children with autism, children with developmental delays, and typically developing children. At 1 year of age, children who would later be diagnosed with autism showed a different pattern of cry compared to the children in the comparison groups; specifically, their cries had less waveform modulation and more dysphonation. Maternal reactions to the crying of infants later diagnosed with autism were qualitatively different from the responses to cries of the other children of the same age (fewer tactile or vestibular stimulation and more verbal production). Implications of the study are described.

The Realm of an Empire and the Reach of Empathy: Reconsideration of Humanism in Mark Twain's 'the War-Prayer'

New Perspectives on “The War-Prayer” Essays on “The War-Prayer” The Realm of an Empire and the Reach of Empathy: Reconsideration of Humanism in Mark Twain’s “The War-Prayer” ARIMITSU Michio In December 1925, The Crisis, the NAACP’s ofcial organ, carried a short article en- titled “Philippine Mulattoes.” The unsigned article quoted a cable sent by General Leon- ard Wood (1860-1927), the then governor of the Philippines, in which he had called for  nancial assistance from home: The American people have been so generous in their responses to the cries of children all over the world that I have no hesitation in appealing to them for children of their own blood who are in need of help. Especially do I have profound condence, as the problem involves the honor of the American nation. (61) By “the children of their own blood,” Wood meant 18,000 hapless children, who had been born to GIs and Filipino women, and subsequently abandoned by their American fathers. Criticizing the hypocrisy involved in the appeal “to support these illegitimate victims of white men’s lust” (61), the article nevertheless asked the readers for help: Send, in God’s name, America, two million dollars . . . and send simultaneously two million protests to Washington to lambaste the heads of Congressmen who permit the holding of the Philippines as a house of prostitution for American white men under the glorious stars and stripes. (61) In their indictment of the “American white men,” African-Americans’ segregated lives are here implicitly united with those of half-American, half-Filipino children. The article’s scathing rhetoric, directed at the (white) government’s imperial actions abroad as it is, reects African-Americans’ frustration at its racist policies at home. The Philippine-American War, leading eventually to the birth of the Filipino mulat- toes, drew as much attention from Mark Twain as from African-Americans. Just as the latter, seeing suffering images of themselves in the Filipinos, loudly voiced their rage at Washington and its injustice committed overseas, Twain took his political stand by writing “The War-Prayer” ( 1905), a satire harshly criticizing his country’s imperialism. Although Twain and African-Americans pursued a common political goal to end the

7thAugust 2006

7th August 2006 Lyn Graham Barzilai (bio) I am in the mall buying boxers for my son when the siren goes off. The carousel with the painted horses is still going round and round while mothers scramble to pull their children down. The children cry, they don’t want to leave the horses. We all push into the shelter behind the concrete wall that backs the shop-fronts. Two shop-girls light up cigarettes and turn the radio on: twelve soldiers dead in Kfar Gila’adi. When the all-clear sounds we all push out again and gather round the TV at the workers’ café. On the screen the smoke clears [End Page 79] and we can see the row of empty boots along the wall. In the evening the missiles hit Poets’ Lane, the little alley crooked now and smoking on the TV screen. Arabs and Jews together scrabble in the rubble at bits of clothing and protruding limbs. Beside them on a wall the plaques to Habibi and Darwish remain intact. Further north on the other side of the border an old man stumbles over the rubble of what was once his house. His eyes look out from behind a vacant screen. He drags behind him a torn paper bag with one frayed shoelace and a battered pair of dusty shoes. [End Page 80] Lyn Graham Barzilai Lyn Graham Barzilai “I am a Scot living in Israel since 1975, married with children. I received my Ph.D from Haifa University, where I teach English literature, as well as creative writing at college. My poetry appears online in Boxcar Poetry Review and Entertext, and in the poetry anthology Runes. I have published a book on the Jewish-American poet George Oppen, and an article on Rita Dove (also in Entertext). I strongly believe in the power of poetry to further social and political awareness.” Copyright © 2008 Bridges Association

Index of Suspicion

Index of Suspicion

Lindy Blues: The Missing Silver Dollar (review)

Reviewed by: Lindy Blues: The Missing Silver Dollar Hope Morrison Cirrone, Dorian Lindy Blues: The Missing Silver Dollar; illus. by Liza Woodruff. Cavendish, 2006 [80 p] ISBN 0-7614-5284-2$14.95 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 2-4 Fourth-grader Lindy Blues markets herself as "Your Nose for News"; every day, she and her younger brother, Alex, go out in search of a story, film it, then broadcast it at 6:00 on an old TV in the garage for the "usual neighborhood audience." When Amy Becker discovers that a silver dollar is missing from her bank, she turns to Lindy Blues and her news team (that would be Alex) to help her solve the case. Part detective, part investigative reporter, Lindy is a likable new voice on the easy-reader mystery scene. Her humor is creatively executed in asides to the reader, adding a layer of depth to the development of Lindy's character. The journalism angle offers a nice addition to the usual kid-detective theme; Lindy is regularly jotting down ideas for later stories, and the way the case is presented on the camera is a constant consideration in her investigation ("I tell Alex to turn the camera away from [Amy's] face. My audience should not see that I have made a child cry"). While the focal mystery in this volume is somewhat slight (Amy didn't actually lose a silver dollar, she just got confused because she was counting backwards), the book is actually more lightheartedly focused on neighborhood doings (including a rocket-launching contest) than investigative journalism per se. The witty humor offers compensation for the slender plot, and the black-and-white illustrations, featuring round-faced, button-nosed, freckle-faced kids, offer visual interest. This is a natural step up for readers of Cam Jansen ready for a little more edge, and new fans can expect to hear from Lindy Blues again. Copyright © 2006 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois