Children's Studies

Wild Things: Children’s Culture and Ecocriticism

Edited by Sidney I. Dobrin and Kenneth Byron Kidd

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

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.

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.

Infant Tongues: The Voice of the Child in Literature

Edited by Elizabeth Goodenough, Mark A. Heberle, and Naomi Sokoloff

An examination of the representation of children in literature from the Renaissance to the present.

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology

Edited by Gary Ladd

Theoretical and empirical papers in the areas of human development and family-child relationships. Published four times a year.

Infancy Research: A Summative Evaluation and a Look to the Future

Edited by Frances Degen Horowitz and John Columbo

A special issue of Merrill-Palmer Quarterly evaluating advances in infancy research.