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Volume 1, Number 1, Summer 2008
Table of Contents
ARTICLES:  
   
The Power of Play: Learning What Comes Naturally 1
by David Elkind  
   
Play in America from Pilgrims and Patriots to Kid Jocks and Joystick Jockeys: Or How Play Mirrors Social Change 8
by Gary Cross  
   
Imaginary Companions: Pretending They Are Real but Knowing They Are Not 48
by Marjorie Taylor and Candice M. Mottweiler  
   
Play, ADHD, and the Construction of the Social Brain: Should the First Class Each Day Be Recess? 57
by Jaak Panksepp  
   
Play Theory: A Personal Journey and New Thoughts 82
by Brian Sutton-Smith  
   
   
BOOK REVIEWS:  
   
Howard P. Chudacoff, Children at Play: An American History 126
by Steven Mintz  
   
David Elkind, The Power of Play: How Spontaneous, Imaginative Activities Lead to Happier, Healthier Children 128
by Thomas Armstrong  
   
Joe L. Frost, Sue C. Wortham, and Stuart Reifel, Play and Child Development (Third Edition) 130
by Myae Han  
   
Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder and Conn and Hal Iggulden, The Dangerous Book for Boys 132
by Jay Mechling  
   
Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, Childhood on the Farm: Work, Play, and Coming of Age in the Midwest 134
by Simon J. Bronner  
   
Christine Jeandheur Ferguson and Ernest Dettore, Jr., eds., To Play or Not to Play: Is It Really a Question? 137
by Stuart Brown  
   
CONTRIBUTORS 140

 


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