The strengths of past editions of Clinical Paediatric Nephrology have been comprehensiveness and conciseness. In the latest, the original editor has become the junior - is this where postgraduate medical education is leading us? - the publisher has changed and the menu has expanded to include psychosocial matters, information for families and third-world paediatric nephrology. Passé contributors have been dumped and the fresh team is international, multi-disciplinary and multiprofessional. The ephebic transformation is dazzling . . . In its latest guise, this work remains a must for postgraduate examination candidates and many paediatric departments will wish to possess it as a bench tool.