Children's Special Places

David Sobel

• Paperback | Engels | Landscapes of Childhood
• From the ages of five to twelve, the middle years of childhood, young people explore their surroundings and find or construct private spaces. In these... Lees meer

Wild Things

• Paperback | Engels | Landscapes of Childhood
• The first book-length study of the relationship between children's literature and ecocriticism. Today's young children are occupied with numerous acti... Lees meer

Under Fire

• Paperback | Engels | Landscapes of Childhood
• Investigates the effects of war on children and children's literature. Under Fire is an eclectic, multidisciplinary collection that explores the repre... Lees meer

Poetry's Playground

Joseph T Thomas

• Paperback | Engels | Landscapes of Childhood
• While the study of children's poetry has always had a place in the realm of children's literature, scholars have not typically considered it in relati... Lees meer

The Child in the World

Eva M Simms

• Paperback | Engels | Landscapes of Childhood
• The Child in the World builds a bridge between continental philosophers, who tend to overlook child existence, and developmental psychologists, who of... Lees meer

And Life Is Changed Forever

• Paperback | Engels | Landscapes of Childhood
• This distinctive volume contains twenty first-person narrative essays from Holocaust survivors who were children at the time of the atrocity. As child... Lees meer

His Dark Materials Illuminated

• Paperback | Engels | Landscapes of Childhood
• British author Philip Pullman's celebrated trilogy for young readers, His Dark Materials [Northern Lights/Golden Compass (1995), The Subtle Knife (199... Lees meer

Come the Morning

Mark Jonathan Harris

• Paperback | Engels | Landscapes of Childhood
• This novel for young readers, told by a thirteen-year-old boy, is the story of a working-class American family plunged into homelessness. Published in... Lees meer

Appraising the Human Developmental Sciences

• Paperback | Engels | Landscapes of Childhood
• This volume sets out to celebrate the Quarterly's significant contribution to developmental research and to highlight the advances made in the field s... Lees meer

Sister Water

Nancy Willard

• Paperback | Engels | Landscapes of Childhood
• An absorbing story about childhood and the search for a sense of place in the urban and natural environments of the Midwest. The widowed Jessie Woolma... Lees meer

Little Machinery

Mary Liddell

• Paperback | Landscapes of Childhood
• Places Mary Liddell's illustrations, calligraphy, and storytelling within its full social and historical setting. This book is suitable for scholars o... Lees meer