Product Description: More than any other textbook on the market, Play and Child Development, Fourth Edition, ties play directly to child development. The authors address the full spectrum of play-related topics and seamlessly blend research, theory, and practical applications throughout this developmentally-based resource...read more

Product Description: More than any other textbook on the market, Play and Child Development, Fourth Edition, ties play directly to child development. The authors address the full spectrum of play-related topics and seamlessly blend research, theory, and practical applications throughout this developmentally-based resource...read more

Product Description: Children’s play throughout history has been free, spontaneous, and intertwined with work, set in the playgrounds of the fields, streams, and barnyards. Children in cities enjoyed similar forms of play but their playgrounds were the vacant lands and parks...read more

Product Description: This research-based publication extends the knowledge base about appropriate playground materials, equipment, and use patterns. The initial chapter focuses on the importance of play, with special attention paid to contemporary research by neuroscientists that shows play is critical to children's healthy physical, cognitive, and social development...read more

Product Description: The one-stop reference for child injuries in litigation. This book is packed with everything you need to know about child injuries. Injuries occur with car seats, cribs, toys, playground equipment and more. Was the manufacturer at fault for not properly labeling its toys? Was the playground equipment properly installed--at the park or in the child's backyard--with the proper surface underneath? Did the manufacturer anticipate the ways in which their products would be used? A great many factors influence a child's injury, and some children's injuries are preventable...read more

Product Description: Excellent play setting book to define your childs play area.