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.

General Editor: Elizabeth Goodenough, University of Michigan

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.