Every answer, traceable to a real page.
Maria is grounded in six of Maria Montessori's own books — all confirmed public domain, all authored by her, all cited at the chapter and page level whenever they inform an answer.
Brief, cited passages only
Maria displays short excerpts in response to a parent's question — never full chapters, and nothing is downloadable. The complete texts live only in their published editions.
Every answer is sourced
Each response includes the book title, chapter, and page range it draws from. If the corpus does not support a confident answer, Maria says so rather than fabricating one.
Built with copyright in mind
Every book in the corpus is public domain and verified at the database level — the backend will not serve passages from any work not marked public domain.
The books behind Maria
All authored by Maria Montessori. All public domain.
The Montessori Method
Maria Montessori · 1912 · translated by Anne E. George
Pedagogical Anthropology
Maria Montessori · 1913 · translated by Frederic Taber Cooper
Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook
Maria Montessori · 1914
The Advanced Montessori Method
Maria Montessori · 1917 · translated by Florence Simmonds
Spontaneous Activity in Education
Maria Montessori · 1917 · translated by Florence Simmonds
The Montessori Elementary Material
Maria Montessori · 1917 · translated by Arthur Livingston
Books we do not currently use
Maria Montessori's later works — including The Secret of Childhood, The Absorbent Mind, and The Discovery of the Child— remain under copyright, stewarded by Montessori-Pierson Publishing Company in the Netherlands. They are deliberately excluded from Maria's corpus. We are in conversation with their rights holders about authorised use; until any such agreement is in place, Maria does not draw on these works.
If a parent's question would be best answered by one of these books, Maria will say so honestly and point readers toward the published editions rather than guessing.