Avtor predlagaet netraditsionnyy podkhod k resheniyu aktual'noy problemy psikhologicheskoy podgotovki detey starshego doshkol'nogo vozrasta k obucheniyu v shkole v usloviyakh DOU, pozvolyayushchiy ispol'zovat' razlichnye formy, a tak zhe traditsionnye i innovatsionnye metody i tekhniki organizatsii sovmestnoy obrazovatel'noy deyatel'nosti, napravlennye na ukreplenie psikhicheskogo zdorov'ya, UVK (uchebno-vazhnykh kachestv) i povyshenie urovnya psikhologicheskoy gotovnosti rebenka k obucheniyu v shkole, sootnesennye s vedushchey deyatel'nost'yu doshkol'nogo perioda detstva - igroy. V knige predlozhen kompleks metodik dlya otsenki psikhologicheskoy gotovnosti detey k shkole. Krome togo, v rabote raskryty osnovnye napravleniya i soderzhanie avtorskoy profilakticheskoy psikhologo-pedagogicheskoy programmy soprovozhdeniya detey 6-7 let pri podgotovke k obucheniyu v shkole "Znay-ka!". Kniga adresovana pedagogam-psikhologam sistemy obrazovaniya, difektologam, rukovoditelyam, metodistam, vospitatelyam doshkol'nykh obrazovatel'nykh uchrezhdeniy, uchitelyam nachal'nykh klassov, slushatelyam kursov povysheniya kvalifikatsii rabotnikov obrazovaniya, prepodavatelyam i studentam psikhologo-pedagogicheskikh spetsial'nostey.