Interview

• Battling the Nature Deficit with Nature Play: An Interview with Richard Louv and Cheryl Charles

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Articles

• Gangsters, Pranksters, and the Invention of Trick-or-Treating, 1930–1960

  by Samira Kawash

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• Bakhtin’s Carnival and Pretend Role Play: A Comparison of Social Contexts

  by Lynn E. Cohen

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• The Play-Literacy Nexus and the Importance of Evidence-Based Techniques in the Classroom

  by Kathleen Roskos and James Christie

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• Play as a Pathway of Behavior

  by Thomas S. Henricks

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Book Reviews

• Gaye Gronlund, Developmentally Appropriate Play: Guiding Young Children to a Higher Level

  by Sandra Heidemann

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• Joost Beunderman, People Make Play: The Impact of Staffed Play Provision on Children, Families and Communities

  by Shelly Newstead

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• Miriam Forman-Brunell, Babysitter: An American History

  by Jacqueline Reid-Walsh

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• Jonathan Balcombe, The Exultant Ark: A Pictorial Tour of Animal Pleasure

  by Harold Herzog

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• Mary Flanagan, Critical Play: Radical Game Design

  by W. Michelle Harris

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• Ian Bogost, Simon Ferrari, and Bobby Schweizer, Newsgames: Journalism at Play

  by Thomas M. Malaby

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