Children's Studies

Colin Heywood's classic account of childhood from the early Middle Ages to the First World War combines a long-run historical perspective with a broad geographical spread. This new, comprehensively updated edition incorporates the findings of the most...

One hundred and ten years ago, Maria Montessori, the first female physician in Italy, devised a very different method of educating children, based on her observations of how they naturally learn. In Montessori, Angeline Stoll Lillard shows that science...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948604505Author Teresa UnnerstallFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Kat Biggie PressPublisher Kat Biggie PressWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Contributions by Miranda A. Green-Barteet, Kathleen Kellett, Andrew McInnes, Joyce McPherson, Rebecca Mills, Cristina Rivera, Wendy Rountree, Danielle Russell, Anah-Jayne Samuelson, Sonya Sawyer Fritz, Andrew Trevarrow, and Richardine Woodall Home...

This book takes Jamie Oliver's campaign for better school meals as a starting point for thinking about morally charged concerns relating to young people's nutrition, health and well-being, parenting, and public health 'crises' such as obesity. The...

They are a mass migration of thousands, yet each one travels alone. Solito, Solita (Alone, Alone), shortlisted for the 2019 Juan E. Mendez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America, is an urgent collection of oral histories that tells-in their own...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451626964Author Lauren SandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...

When Timmy Twinkle kicks a ball - it's magic! A funny and charming story by award-winning author Sally Gardner, in her MAGICAL CHILDREN series.Timmy Twinkle gets bullied at school and hasn't any friends. He longs to play football, but he's hopeless at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781068635304Author Bethany FinnimoreFormat PaperbackImprint F&H PublishingPublisher F&H Publishing

There is increasing pressure to involve children and young people in the decisions that affect them. Presenting new research on the extent to which parents and children participate in decision making when childcare social workers are involved,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802418357Format PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Moody PublishersPublisher Moody Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395599235Author Robert ColesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 480g

Endorsed by WJEC this textbook covers course content in just the right detail and provides invaluable support for your students completing their controlled assessments. // Covers essential course knowledge in a clear, colourful and highly accessible way...

This new edition of From Birth to Sixteen outlines children's physical, social, emotional and cognitive development from infancy through to adolescence. In both its practical application of research and its contribution to the assessment of child...

What are the hallmarks of anthroposophical caregiving methodology that are necessary for the provision of 'good care'? In recent decades, healthcare has undergone a transformation. Clients demand good care, and providers are expected to deliver it...

Written with clarity and thoroughly argued, Wyness confirms his place as one of the key authors within contemporary social science writing on children and childhood. A formidable exploration of the nature of contemporary childhood in globally disparate...

Renowned psychic Joan Charles reveals stories from her twenty-five years as a spiritual communicator. Looking in detail at the amazing psychic abilities of children, both passed and on this plane, Joan shares tales of love and loss, and secrets and lies,...

The true story of a foundling. 'Extraordinary ... A fascinating, moving book: part history of the Foundling Hospital and the development of child psychology, part Cowan's own story, and part that of Cowan's mother' LUCY SCHOLES, TELEGRAPH Growing up in a...

Research has traditionally shown high schools to be hostile environments for LGBT youth. Boys have used homophobia to prove their masculinity and distance themselves from homosexuality. Despite these findings over the last three decades, The Declining...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622455843Author Dwight L MoodyFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Aneko PressPublisher Life Sentence PublishingWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394757766Author Bruno BettelheimFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Villard BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 497gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501125423Author Christina Hoff SommersFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

This welcome second edition of a classic text brings together six essays from the original edition with two co-authored pieces and a lively new introduction and concluding chapter that considers the changes over the last twenty years impacting on young...

With the first edition of The Hurried Child , David Elkind emerged as the voice of parenting reason, calling our attention to the crippling effects of hurrying our children through life. He showed that by blurring the boundaries of what is age...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883647179Author Jaquelyn McCandlessFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint Bramble BooksPublisher Bramble BooksWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943880102Author Jessie ShepherdFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Bluefox PressPublisher Bluefox PressWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 216mm *...

This book describes an approach to children and young people who might be helped by child psychotherapy. Attention is paid to factors within the child's personality, to strengths and impediments in the developmental process, and to the family and wider...

Games make up a huge part of childhood, and memories of specific games stay with us throughout our lives. They form an integral part of growing up and stimulate imagination and creativity. From hide and seek to complex card and board games, street games...

This clear and practical workbook shows the importance of encouraging resilience in pre-school children who live in challenging circumstances. Focusing on assessment of need, Brigid Daniel and Sally Wassell show how to evaluate resilience using...

This collection offers first-hand accounts, research studies and in-depth theoretical explorations of disabled children's childhoods. The accounts oppose the global imposition of problematic views of disability and childhood and instead, offer an open...

The idea of children's agency is central to the growing field of childhood studies. In this book David Oswell argues for new understandings of children's agency. He traces the transformation of children and childhood across the nineteenth, twentieth and...

Children's Geographies is an overview of a rapidly expanding area of cutting edge research. Drawing on original research and extensive case studies in Europe, North and South America, Africa and Asia, the book analyses children's experiences of playing,...

Across 30 chapters, a team of experienced teachers and practitioners introduce the fundamental professional issues concerning children, young people and their families in the 21st century. Working with Children and Families explores the diverse contexts...

Since the Munro report (2011), a greater emphasis has been placed on the value of child-centred practice in social work with children, young people and families. It has come to be recognised that social workers cannot make an assessment or intervene to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767916158Author Jane HealyFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 207mm...

Based on a two-year study that followed boys from pre-kindergarten through first grade, When Boys Become Boys offers a new way of thinking about boys' development. Through focusing on a critical moment of transition in boys' lives, Judy Y. Chu reveals...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736133507Author Julie FalconeFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Julie FalconePublisher Julie FalconeWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

When the first edition of this seminal work appeared in 1990, the sociology of childhood was only just beginning to emerge as a distinct sub-discipline. Drawing together strands of existing sociological writing about childhood and shaping them into a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915150028Author Fay RowlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Thomas Salt BooksPublisher Thomas Salt BooksWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345305831Author Maria MontessoriFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm)...