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Let's Read

A Linguistic Approach

Clarence L. Barnhart, Leonard Bloomfield, Cynthia A. Barnhart, and Robert K. Barnhart

A classic reading-instruction text, updated to be more contemporary and teacher- and user-friendly.

Paperback
Published: June 2010
ISBN: 9780814334553
$36.99
Ebook
Published: June 2010
ISBN: 9780814336861
$36.99

Under Fire

Childhood in the Shadow of War

Edited by Elizabeth Goodenough and Andrea Immel

Investigates the effects of war on children and children’s literature.

Paperback
Published: May 2008
ISBN: 9780814334041
$29.99

The Child in the World

Embodiment, Time, and Language in Early Childhood

Eva M. Simms

A dialogue between developmental research and continental philosophy that illuminates how children experience the world.

Paperback
Published: April 2008
ISBN: 9780814333754
$32.99
eBOOK
Published: April 2008
ISBN: 9780814338407

Appraising the Human Developmental Sciences

Essays in Honor of Merrill-Palmer Quarterly

Edited by Gary W. Ladd

This volume sets out to celebrate the Quarterly’s significant contribution to developmental research and to highlight the advances made in the field since the early 1950s.

Paperback
Published: April 2007
ISBN: 9780814333426
$36.99
eBOOK
Published: April 2007
ISBN: 9780814335543
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Poetry's Playground

The Culture of Contemporary American Children's Poetry

Joseph T. Thomas, Jr.

The first book-length study of contemporary American children’s poetry, Poetry’s Playground considers children’s poetry in relation to the wider scope of adult poetic discourse.

Paperback
Published: February 2007
ISBN: 9780814332962
$27.99

And Life Is Changed Forever

Holocaust Childhoods Remembered

edited by Martin Ira Glassner and Robert Krell

Looking at the Holocaust through the eyes of children who lived through it, this collection offers an inspiring assortment of perspectives on survival.

Paperback
Published: April 2006
ISBN: 9780814331736
$31.99

His Dark Materials Illuminated

Critical Essays on Philip Pullman's Trilogy

Edited by Milicent Lenz with Carol Scott

The first critical analysis of Philip Pullman’s cross-age fantasy trilogy.

Paperback
Published: September 2005
ISBN: 9780814332078
$29.99

Sister Water

Nancy Willard

An absorbing story about childhood and the search for a sense of place in the urban and natural environments of the Midwest.

Paperback
Published: August 2005
ISBN: 9780814332443
$18.99

Come the Morning

Mark Jonathan Harris
Photographs by Marissa Roth

This novel for young readers, told by a thirteen-year-old boy, is the story of a working-class American family plunged into homelessness.

Paperback
Published: March 2005
ISBN: 9780814332412
$25.99

Wild Things

Children's Culture and Ecocriticism

Edited by Sidney I. Dobrin and Kenneth B. Kidd

The first book-length study of the relationship between children's literature and ecocriticism.

Paperback
Published: May 2004
ISBN: 9780814330289
$32.99

For the Good of the Children

A History of the Boys and Girls Republic

Gay Pitman Zieger

The story of a notable children’s institution founded at the turn of the twentieth century, this book looks at the lives of troubled children and those who helped them, and illuminates major shifts in America’s child welfare system.

Hardcover
Published: January 2003
ISBN: 9780814330869
$36.99

Children's Special Places

Exploring the Role of Forts, Dens, and Bush Houses in Middle Childhood

David Sobel

An examination of the secret world of children that shows how important special places are to a child's development.

Paperback
Published: December 2001
ISBN: 9780814330265
$29.99
Ebook
Published: December 2001
ISBN: 9780814337622
$29.99

Appel Is Forever

A Child's Memoir

Suzanne Mehler Whiteley

A courageous memoir describing the life of a young girl and her experiences living in Holland during World War II.

Paperback
Published: July 1999
ISBN: 9780814328224
$19.99
Ebook
Published: July 1999
ISBN: 9780814338841
$19.99