The title summarises the message of the book - that babies and toddlers are often not treated as people with their own wishes, feelings and voices to be heard.
The job of a new edition is to update rather than rewrite and this edition has done that - mainly in the first chapter, "day care in context", which replaces "values and principles" in the first edition, and at the end in the "looking ahead" conclusion.
In the new version there is a separate section concerned with children's rights, which makes reference to the important work of Penny Lancaster and Gerison Lansdowne.
However, the book seems to retreat a little on the critical concept of the key person role. In the 1994 version, small children away from home had a right to a "loving relationship with a particular care-giver". This has been downgraded in the 2004 version to the need for "individualised attention", a very pale substitution.
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