Writing for parents of multilingual families, Barron-Hauwaert promotes the planned strategy of associating one person with one language in the home, thereby teaching children several languages as a natural process with a minimum of confusion. She also examines other strategies such as mixed use, and keeping the minority language at home. After a chapter explaining the strategy, Barron-Hauwaert describes the process for the first three years of a child's life, starting school and becoming bicultural, interaction between family members, expectations and reality, special considerations of families with three or more languages, alternate strategies, and the role of the multilingual parent in the twenty-first century. She includes case studies, descriptions of research, a glossary, and a list of resources for parents. distributed in the US by UTP Distribution. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)