Two Excellent Round Stones Todd Piker Two of the arms have

Two of the arms have hooks at their ends that seem made for grabbing and pulling

This hardcover first edition

with a bit more drawing on reverse

6 7/8" long x 3 1/4" d at widest

Two Excellent Round Stones Todd Piker Two of the arms haveAs noted in an earlier listing, one of the things I read over holiday break was Norman Brosterman's Inventing Kindergarten, about Frederick Froebel and his philosophies about early learning, which lead to his creation of kindergarten and the "gifts" which were central to it. One of the things it made think about was the centrality of play in leading to understanding, and also about how a thing (like a wooden block) placed in relationship to another