Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, University of Wroclaw with Irena Barbara Kalla, University of Wroclaw
Introduction: The Playground of Children's Literature
Part One: Social and Political Contexts of Play
Chapter 1 Birgitte Beck Pristed (Aarhus University, Denmark)
The ABC of Late Soviet Wastepaper for Pioneers and Their Parents
Chapter 2 Jan Van Coillie (KU Leuven, Belgium)
How Delightful is a Child at Play? Play in Children's Literature in Flanders during the Nineteenth Century: A Systemic Approach
Chapter 3 Sarah Hoem Iversen (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway)
'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 Yoo Kyung Sung (University of New Mexico, USA)
Transnationalism and Play in Mexican Children's Childhood and Multicultural Children's Literature in the United States
Chapter 5 Sally Sims Stokes (Catholic University of America, USA)
Requiem for a Rabbit Scut: The Playful Encounter in Streatfeild and Hutton's Harlequinade
Chapter 6 Blanka Grzegorczyk (University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University, UK)
Girls, Boys, Bombs, Toys: Terror and Play in Contemporary Children's Fiction
Part Two: Constructs of Children's Agency in Play Representations of Childhood and Play
Chapter 7 Elliot Schreiber (Vassar College, USA)
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 Ilaria Filograsso (University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy)
Language Play in Adult-Child Relationships: Gianni Rodari's Pedagogical and Literary Concepts
Chapter 9 Elisabeth L. Nelson (University of Glasgow, UK)
Recollecting Childhood: Writing the Child at Play
Chapter 10 Taraneh Matloob Haghanikar (University of Northern Iowa, USA) & Linda M. Pavonetti (Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, USA)
Representations of Play in Caldecott Medal and Honor Books during 1938-1949 and 2001-2014
Part Three: Materialities of Play
Chapter 11 Jennifer Farrar (University of Glasgow, UK)
Encounters with Metafiction: Playing with Ideas of What Counts When It Comes to Reading
Chapter 12 Zofia Zasacka (National Library and the Educational Research Institute, Poland)
Playing and Reading Together: The Beginnings of Literary Socialization
Chapter 13 Elzbieta Jamroz-Stolarska (University of Wroclaw, Poland)
Crossing Boundaries in Children's Books: The Role of the Author, Illustrator and Publisher in Creating Playful Books for Young Readers
Coda
Chapter 14 Jean Webb (University of Worcester, UK)
Reflection on Playing and Puzzling with Alice and Tom
