This annual issue of the Illinois Council for the Gifted Journal includes 20 articles focusing on young gifted children. Titles and authors are: "How Can I Tell If My Preschooler is Gifted?" (Susan Golant); "Early Childhood Education for the Gifted: The Need for Intense Study and Observation" (Maurice Fisher); "Assessing Gifted and Talented Children" (James Webb); "Early Assessment of Exceptional Potential" (Beverly Shaklee and Jane Rohrer); "Teacher Assessment of Preschool and Primary Giftedness" (Jane Wolfe and W. Thomas Southern); "Characteristics of Gifted Children and How Parents and Teachers Can Cope with Them" (Annemarie Roeper); "The Needs of the Young Gifted Child (A Short and Incomplete Overview)" (Annemarie Roeper); "The Whole Child and the Gift--Nurturing Our Very Young Gifted Students" (Dorothy Massalski); "Integrating the Gifted Child into Family Life" (Caryl Krueger); "Family Factors in the Adult Success of High-IQ Children" (Rena Subotnik and James Borland); "The ABC's of Curriculum for Gifted 5-Year-Olds: Alphabet, Blocks and Chess?" (Susan Kaplan); "Teaching Thinking Early" (Anne Crabbe and Pat Hoelscher); "Greater Gifts Than These" (Susan Belgrad); "Creating a Nurturing Classroom Environment" (Laura Requarth); "Education of Young Gifted Children" (Peggy Snowden); "Intuition is for the Learning" (Don Rapp); "Cooperative Learning: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" (Susan Linnemeyer); "Reaching All Students in a Heterogeneous Classroom Through Whole Language" (Margaret Bryant); "Gifted Education: To Be or Not to Be?" (Kathy Hagstrom); "From Ownership to 'Allship': Building a Conceptual Framework for Education of the Gifted and Creative" (LeoNora Cohen). Two additional articles are: "My Life and How it Grew" (Julian Stanley) and "What the Gifted Need: Toward a General Unified Plan for Gifted Education" (Jessie H. Sanders and Leonard H. Sanders). (DB)