Infant Development: The Essential Readings provides students with a selection of some of the key articles by key researchers in this core area of developmental psychology and introduces the reader to the field of infancy research and to some of the current, lively controversies within this area.

Darwin Muir is Professor of Psychology at Queen's University, Ontario.

Alan Slater is Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Exeter.
They are co-editors of the recently published Blackwell Reader in Developmental Psychology.