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Following are selected reviews of books about play. Along with many others, these reviews appear in The Strong’s Scott Rigby and Richard M. Ryan, Glued to Games: How Video Games Draw us In and Hold us Spellbound
Barbara Martin, Children at Play: Learning Gender in the Early Years
Susan Grieshaber and Felicity McArdle, The Trouble with Play
Gaye Gronlund, Developmentally Appropriate Play: Guiding Young Children to a Higher Level
Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown, A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change
Deborah Meier, Brenda S. Engel, and Beth Taylor, Playing for Keeps: Life and Learning on a Public School Playground
Anna R. Beresin, Recess Battles: Playing, Fighting, and Storytelling
Sandra Smidt, Playing to Learn: The Role of Play in the Early Years
Mark Bauerlein, The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone under 30)
Reviewed by Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr.
Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce, Wild Justice: the Moral Lives of Animals
Reviewed by Gordon M. Burghardt
Stuart Brown, M.D., with Christopher Vaughan, Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul
Reviewed by David Kuschner
Howard P. Chudacoff, Children at Play: An American History
Reviewed by Steven Mintz
Patricia M. Cooper, The Classrooms All Young Children Need: Lessons in Teaching from Vivian Paley
Reviewed by Christine J. Ferguson
Ann E. Densmore, Helping Children with Autism Become More Social: 76 Ways to Use Narrative Play
Reviewed by Virginia Ryan
Brian Edmiston, Forming Ethical Identities in Early Childhood Play
Reviewed by Stuart Reifel
David Elkind. The Power of Play: How Spontaneous, Imaginative Activities Lead to Happier, Healthier Children
Reviewed by Thomas Armstrong
Joe L. Frost, A History of Children's Play and Play Environments: Toward a Contemporary Child-Saving Movement
Reviewed by Roy Kozlovsky
James Paul Gee, Good Video Games + Good Learning: Collected Essays on Video Games, Learning, and Literacy
Marc Prensky, “Don’t Bother Me Mom—I’m Learning!”: How Computer and Video Games Are Preparing Your Kids for Twenty-first Century Success—and How You Can Help!
Dorothy G. Singer and Jerome L. Singer, Imagination and Play in the Electronic Age
Reviewed by Barrie Gunter
Tim Gill, No Fear: Growing up in a Risk Averse Society
Reviewed by Mary Rivkin
Elizabeth Goodenough, ed., A Place for Play: A Companion Volume to the Michigan Television Film “Where do the Children Play?”
Reviewed by Rhonda Clements
Marjorie Harness Goodwin, The Hidden Life of Girls: Games of Stance, Status, and Exclusion
Reviewed by Tracy Vaillancourt
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Laura E. Berk, and Dorothy G. Singer, A Mandate for Playful Learning in the Preschool: Presenting the Evidence
Reviewed by Karen VanderVen
Carl Honoré, Under Pressure: Rescuing Our Children From the Culture of Hyper-Parenting; Hara Estroff Marano, A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting; and Tom Farrey, Game On: The All-American Race to Make Champions of Our Children
Reviewed by W. George Scarlett
David Kuschner, ed., From Children to Red Hatters: Diverse Images and Issues of Play
Reviewed by Jeffrey Trawick-Smith
Lawrence Kutner and Cheryl K. Olson, Grand Theft Childhood: The Surprising Truth about Violent Video Games and What Parents Can Do.
Katie Salen, The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning
Reviewed by Stephen Jacobs
Luciano L'Abate, The Praeger Handbook of Play across the Life Cycle: From Infancy to Old Age
Reviewed by Erna Imperatore Blanche
Stuart Lester and Wendy Russell,Play for a Change: Play, Policy and Practice: A Review of Contemporary Perspectives
Reviewed by Peter K. Smith
Susan Linn, The Case for Make-Believe: Saving Play in a Commercialized World
Reviewed by David Elkind
Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
Conn and Hal Iggulden, The Dangerous Book for Boys
Reviewed by Jay Mechling
Edward Miller and Joan Almon, Crisis in the Kindergarten: Why Children Need to Play in School
Reviewed by Jim Johnson
Linda Nazareth, The Leisure Economy: How Changing Demographics, Economics, and Generational Attitudes Will Reshape Our Lives and Our Industries
Reviewed by Garry Chick
Anthony D. Pelligrini, The Role of Play in Human Development
Reviewed by Doris Bergen
Sergio Pellis and Vivien Pellis, The Playful Brain: Venturing to the Limits of Neuroscience
by Patrick Bateson
Sue Rogers and Julie Evans, Inside Role-Play in Early Childhood Education: Researching Young Children’s Perspectives
Reviewed by James E. Johnson
Charles E. Schaefer, ed., Play Therapy for Preschool Children
Reviewed by Linda E. Homeyer
Diana Seach, Interactive Play for Children with Autism
Reviewed by Pamela Wolfberg
Dorothy G. Singer, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, eds. Play = Learning: How Play Motivates and Enhances Children's Cognitive and Social- Emotional Growth
Reviewed by Doris Bergen
Peter K. Smith, Understanding Children's Worlds: Children and Play
by Thomas G. Power
Jan White, Playing and Learning Outdoors: Making Provision for High-Quality Experiences in the Outdoor Environment
Reviewed by Olga S. Jarret
