[The Left-hander's World] treats left-handers as another minority group, presenting facts, speculations and personal experiences to provide the left-handed child with a sense of identity and pride about his or her differences…. The authors carefully separate fact from pejorative superstition, and inform us that many well-known and successful people are included in the ranks of the left-handed. Practical help for left-handers is limited to a short appendix listing relevant books, articles, products and organizations. There is a chapter on left-handed writing, perhaps the greatest bane of the sinistral, but it is devoid of helpful advice on struggling with this problem. To this (left-handed) reviewer, this is a more significant need than the problem of a negative self-image. Moreover, I know of no evidence supporting the authors' contention that successful lefties got that way through compensation nor that others—such as Jack the Ripper—became antisocial through the bitterness of coping with a right-handed world. I am certain, however, that such conjectures are of no benefit to the young reader. Even so, the book will be of interest to teachers, children and families of both bents.