Children's Studies

Landscapes of Childhood Series

An interdisciplinary series dedicated to books that are experimental, exploratory and risk-taking in their methodology, collaborative and “out in front” like children themselves.

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..More info...

Where Do the Children Play? A Study Guide to the Film

Elizabeth Goodenough

Where Do the Children Play? documents the film production and offers essays by environmental psychologists, specialists in landscape design, and community organizers who provide a compendium of outreach projects and resources for connecting children to a better version of their present environment.

Appraising the Human Developmental Sciences: Essays in Honor of Merrill-Palmer Quarterly

Edited by Gary W. Ladd

In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, this volume collects significant essays from Merrill-Palmer Quarterly in the same volume for the first time.

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.

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.

His Dark Materials Illuminated: Critical Essays on Philip Pullman’s Trilogy

Edited by Millicent Lenz with Carole Scott

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

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.

Come the Morning

New Edition with Author’s Commentary

Mark Jonathan Harris

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