For early childhood professionals, Darling-Kuria, a family child care professional and adjunct professor who develops curricula for early care and education programs, provides brain-based learning activities for use with children from birth to age eight to simultaneously engage the whole brain in cognitive and physical development. After giving information on the brain, its parts, and their functions in learning and memory, as well as creating brain-compatible learning environments, she describes activities for language, math, science, art, motor skills, social-emotional development, music, and the natural environment, with age range and materials listed, and multisensory variations, diversity adaptations, and extension activities. No index is provided. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)