Publications

 Books


Where Do the Children Play SizedWhere do Children Play? A Study Guide to the Film

University of Michigan Press, 2010.


A Place for Play SizedA Place for Play

University of Michigan Press, 2008


Under Fire SizedUnder Fire: Childhood in the Shadow of War

Wayne State University Press, 2008


Secret Spaces of Childhood Sized

Secret Spaces of Childhood

University of Michigan Press, 2003.


Michigan Quarterly Review "Secret Spaces of Childhood"Michigan Quarterly Review “Secret Spaces of Childhood”

University of Michigan Press, Spring 2000


The Lion and the Unicorn 24-3 2000Children’s Literature and Violence (a special edition of the Lion & the Unicorn)

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000


Infant Tongues - The Voice of Children in LiteratureInfant Tongues: The Voice of the Child in Literature

Wayne State University Press, 1994

Book Chapters


Play in American Life: Essays in Honor of Joe L. Frost
edited by Mary Ruth Moore and Constance Sabo-Risley
Archway Publishing, 2017
Stormy Passages: Searching for “A Straight, True Light”
pp. 59-74

Memory and Pedagogy
edited by Claudia Mitchell Teresa Strong-Wilson, Kathleen Pithouse and Susann Allnutt
Routledge, 2011
Secrets of Play: Child-Centered Spaces and the Literary Imagination
pp. 35-47

Hawthorne and Women: Engendering and Expanding the Hawthorne Tradition
edited by John L. Idol Jr. and Melinda M. Ponder
U Mass Press, 1999
Demons of Wickedness, Angels of Delight”: Hawthorne, Woolf, and the Child
pp. 226-236

Articles


The Victorian Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
Shaw Festival Programmes: Wilde Tales, Summer 2017

A Little Patch of Earth Comment
NAEYC Play, Policy, and Practice Interest Forum: Connections ed. Dr. Jennifer Berke, Spring 2017

Lucky Just to Be Alive—NOT!
RC Newsletter, Fall 2015

Olley Olley Oxen Free
RC Newsletter, Fall 2013

Nature as a Healer
Wisdom of Nature, January 2013, p. 16

The Healing Arts of Play: Scenes of Self-Determination in Hawthorne’s Biographical Stories for Children
Nathaniel Hawthorne REview, Volume 36, Number 1, Spring 2010

Secret Spaces of Childhood and the Pedagogy of Place
Green Money Journal, January 2009

On Behalf of Children
Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Friends, Winter 2009

The Earth and Its Young: Where Do the Children Play?
Encounter, Volume 21, Number 4, Winter 2008, pp. 2-4

Peering into Childhood’s Secret Spaces
The Chronicle of Higher Education, July, 2003

In Memoriam Mitzi Myers
The Lion and the Unicorn, Volume 26, Number 1, January 2002, pp. vi-viii

Introduction
The Lion and the Unicorn, Volume 24, Number 3, September 2000, pp.v-ix

Time and Space for Children
Michigan Today, Volume 32, Number 2, Summer 2000

Oscar Wilde, Victorian Fairy Tales, and the Meaning of Atonement
The Lion and the Unicorn, Volume 23, 1999, pp. 336-354

One Was Maurice
Children’s Literature, Volume 24, 1996, pp. 235-240

Speaking as a Child-Hearing as an Adult
Children’s Literature, Volume 23, 1995, pp. 261-264

Hawthorne’s New Literature for the Young
Children’s Literature, Volume 22, 1994, pp. 183-186

Taming Wilder Territory
Literature & Hawai’i’s Children: Stories as Bridges to Many Realms, June 1992

Grandfather’s Chair-Hawthorne’s Deeper History of New England
The Lion and the Unicorn, Volume 15, Number 1, June 1991, pp. 27-42

Children Never Forget: The Image of the Child in Virginia Woolf and Carl Jung
Psychological Perspectives: A Quarterly Journal of Jungian Thought, Volume 21, Issue 1, 1989

 Mentions and Reviews

Danbom, Dan, “Buyers in Denver follow trend of wanting hidden doors, secret rooms in custom homes
Denver Post, 
January 10, 2019 

Lynn Slotkin, Review: WILDE TALES: Stories for Young and Old
The Passionate Playgoer, August 22, 2017

Lory Hough, “Are You Down With or Done With Homework?”
Harvard ED Magazine, Winter 2012

Rhonda Clements, “A Place for Play: A Companion volume to the michigan television Film ‘Where Do the Children Play?’”
American Journal of Play, Summer 2009

Lory Hough, “Einstein May Never Have Used Flashcards, But He Probably Built Forts”
Harvard ED Magazine, Spring 2007