Children's Special Places

David Sobel

• Paperback | Engels | Landscapes of Childhood
• An examination of the secret world of children that shows how important special places are to a child's development. From the ages of five to twelve, ... Lees meer

Under Fire

• Paperback | Engels | Landscapes of Childhood
• Under Fire is an eclectic, multidisciplinary collection that explores the representation of war and its aftereffects in children's books and documenta... 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

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

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

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
• Published in 1989 to wide acclaim, Come the Morning was one of the first novels for older children to treat the problem of homelessness realistically.... 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