📚 Child Study

Books with child study on their catalogue record, first published between 1871 and 1979, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject child study in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,231 works the catalogue holds under that subject. 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
	Gentle measures in the management and training of the young; or, The principles onwhich a firm parental authority may be established and maintained	Jacob Abbott	1871	40
	Langage et la pensée chez l'enfant	Jean Piaget	1926	28
	Mental Development in the Child and the Race (1895) (Thoemmes Press - Classics in Psychology)	James Mark Baldwin	1894	23
	The education of children	Alfred Adler	1930	22
	The secret of childhood	Maria Montessori	1936	20
	Psychoanalyse des Kindes	Melanie Klein	1932	19
	The absorbent mind	Maria Montessori	1949	19
	The psychology of childhood	Frederick Tracy	1893	17
	The natural development of the child	Agatha H. Bowley	1942	17
	The child and society	Frederick Elkin	1960	17
	Child behavior	Frances L. Ilg	1955	16
	Studies of childhood	Sully, James	1895	13
	Your child today and tomorrow	Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg	1913	13
	Die Seele des Kindes	William T. Preyer	1884	12
	Play, dreams, and imitation in childhood	Jean Piaget	1951	12
	Psychology and parenthood	H. Addington Bruce	1915	11
	Child development and personality	Paul Henry Mussen	1956	11
	The psychology of parent-child relationships	Percival Mallon Symonds	1939	10
	The causes of behavior	Judy F. Rosenblith	1962	10
	Fundamentals of child study	Edwin A. Kirkpatrick	1903	9
	Introduction à la psychologie de l'enfant	Paul Alexandre Osterrieth	1957	9
	A study of a child	Louise Eleanor Shimer Hogan	1898	8
	Spontaneous and supervised play in childhood	Alice Corbin Sies	1922	8
	Infant and child in the culture of today	Arnold Gesell	1943	8
	Three theories of child development	Maier, Henry W.	1965	8
	The antecedents of self-esteem / Stanley Coopersmith	Stanley Coopersmith	1967	8
	Growing up gifted	Clark, Barbara	1979	8
	Play in education	Joseph Lee	1915	7
	The Child Under Eight	E. R. Murray	1919	7
	Play therapy	Virginia Mae Axline	1947	7

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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