Introduction: The Playground of Children's Literature
Chapter 1. The ABC of Late Soviet Wastepaper for Pioneers and Their Parents
Chapter 2. How Delightful is a Child at Play? Play in Children's Literature in Flanders during the Nineteenth Century: A Systemic Approach
Chapter 3. 'When you have said your les-sons well, then you shall go out to play': Play, Gender, and the Child Addressee in Nineteenth-century Children's Dictionaries
Chapter 4. Transnationalism and Play in Mexican Children's Childhood and Multicultural Children's Literature in the United States
Chapter 5. Requiem for a Rabbit Scut: The Playful Encounter in Streatfeild and Hutton's Harlequinade
Chapter 6. Girls, Boys, Bombs, Toys: Terror and Play in Contemporary Children's Fiction
Chapter 7. Branching out from the Family Tree: Fairy Tales, Imaginative Play, and Intergenerational Relations in Works by the Brothers Grimm, Ludwig Tieck, and Hans Christian Andersen
Chapter 8. Language Play in Adult-Child Relationships: Gianni Rodari's Pedagogical and Literary Concepts
Chapter 9. Recollecting Childhood: Writing the Child at Play
Chapter 10. Representations of Play in Caldecott Medal and Honor Books during 1938-1949 and 2001-2014
Chapter 11. Encounters with Metafiction: Playing with Ideas of What Counts When It Comes to Reading
Chapter 12. Playing and Reading Together: The Beginnings of Literary Socialization
Chapter 13. Crossing Boundaries in Children's Books: The Role of the Author, Illustrator and Publisher in Creating Playful Books for Young Readers
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Chapter 14. Reflection on Playing and Puzzling with Alice and Tom
