Author Miriam Lindstrom traces the normal development of visualization in children between the ages of two and fifteen, and focuses on what children's art means to children themselves. Lindstrom asserts that children's art reflects, and can be an integral part of, a developmental process in which the child gradually learns to impose some sort of order on chaos, creating symbols expressive of what they see and think and feel in relation to the external world. Many examples of children's art are included.