The latest book from Reflections Nursery & Forest School in Worthing, West Sussex, documents the thoughts and ideas of pre-school children during a year-long focus on ‘storying’, or the use of narrative arising from children’s everyday play and independent investigations.
The book, The Revolutionary Baby, emerged from the ideas of two-year-old Etta, who created the character of a ‘big strong baby’ while exploring themes relating to babies in peril, dangerous monsters and things that could grow bigger.
Reflections’ pedagogical consultant Deb Wilenski explains, ‘Through the adventures of a tiny baby the children investigated good and bad, power and vulnerability, danger and defiance. They also made radical new combinations of these ideas. If the tiny baby is a revolutionary who crosses boundaries and travels between worlds, the children who told his stories are revolutionaries too.’
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