A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home and is drawn to the farm at the end of the road where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl and her mother and grandmother. As he sits by the pond behind the ramshackle old house, the unremembered past comes flo…
A story of time travel. While picking up milk for his children's cereal, a father is abducted by aliens and finds himself on a wild adventure through time and space
Describe the devastating impact unloving mothers have on their daughters and provides effective techniques for overcoming that painful legacy
This book provides a critical examination of the discourses that underpin the regulation of children' s access to certain knowledge ' understood as ' difficult knowledge' ' and highlights the way this regulation contributes to the construction of childhood, to children' s vulner…
Kidding around: the child in film and media
Revisiting her childhood reading Lucy relives our best-beloved books, their extraordinary creators, and looks at the thousand subtle ways they shape our lives. She also disinters a few forgotten treasures to inspire the next generation of bookworms and set them on their way
A study that critically examines the basis for the belief that compulsory education is a necessary social good. It also addresses whether adulthood should be conceived as an entirely separate realm from childhood.
Sage handbook of early childhood research
To sort out who's who and what's what in the world of Barbies and Ninja Turtles, Tinkertoys and teddy bears, is to begin to see what has become of childhood in America. It is this changing world, and what it unveils about Americans values, that Gary Cross explores in this book, …
