INTERVIEW:

• The Importance of Fantasy, Fairness, and Friendship in Children's Play: An Interview with Vivian Gussin Paley

SPECIAL FEATURE:

• Before It’s Too Late: A Digital Game Preservation White Paper
  by Henry Lowood (editor) and Devin Monnens, Zach Vowell, Judd Ethan Ruggill, Ken S. McAllister, Andrew Armstrong (authors)

ARTICLES:

• Exploring the Uncanny Valley to Find the Edge of Play
  by Scott G. Eberle
  
  
• “Sometimes I Pounce on Twigs Because I’m a Meat Eater”: Supporting Physically Active Play and Outdoor Learning
  by Jane P. Perry and Lisa Branum

BOOK REVIEWS:

• Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Laura E. Berk, and Dorothy G. Singer, A Mandate for Playful Learning in the Preschool: Presenting the Evidence
  by Karen VanderVen
  
  
• Edward Miller and Joan Almon, Crisis in the Kindergarten: Why Children Need to Play in School
  by Jim Johnson
  
  
• Risë VanFleet, Play Therapy with Kids & Canines: Benefits for Children’s Developmental and Psychosocial Health
  by Stephen Demanchick
  
  
• Susan Sessions Rugh, Are We There Yet? The Golden Age of American Family Vacations
  by Victoria W. Wolcott
  
  
• Linda Nazareth, The Leisure Economy: How Changing Demographics, Economics, and Generational Attitudes Will Reshape Our Lives and Our Industries
  by Garry Chick
  
  
• Brian Edmiston, Forming Ethical Identities in Early Childhood Play
  by Stuart Reifel
  
  
• Martin J. Doherty, Theory of Mind: How Children Understand Others’ Thoughts and Feelings
  by Rebekah A. Richert
  
  
• Ian Bogost, Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames
  by Steve Jacobs
  
  
• Thomas Mc Laughlin, Give and Go: Basketball as a Cultural Practice
  by Douglas Hartmann
  
  
• Kasia Boddy, Boxing: A Cultural History
  by Elliott J. Gorn
  
  
• Kathryn Marsh, The Musical Playground: Global Tradition and Change in Children’s Songs and Games
  by Victoria Stevens
  
  
• Rodney P. Carlisle, ed., Encyclopedia of Play in Today’s Society
  by Scott G. Eberle

INTERVIEW:

• Play, Healing, and Wellness as Seen by a Physician Who Clowns:
  An Interview with Bowen White

ARTICLES:

• Orderly and Disorderly Play: A Comparison
  by Thomas S. Henricks

• A Second Look at the Play of Young Children with Disabilities
  by Michelle Buchanan and Tricia Giovacco Johnson
  

• Game Playing: Negotiating Rules and Identities
  by Ditte Winther-Lindqvist
  

• Friedrich Froebel’s Gifts: Connecting the Spiritual and Aesthetic to the Real World of Play and Learning
  by Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr.

BOOK REVIEWS:

• Wagner James Au, The Making of Second Life: Notes from the New World; Edward Castronova, Exodus to the Virtual World: How Online Fun is Changing Reality; and Peter Ludlow and MarkWallace, The Second Life Herald: The Virtual Tabloid That Witnessed the Dawn of the Metaverse
  by Henry Lowood
  

• Carl Honoré, Under Pressure: Rescuing Our Children From the Culture of Hyper-Parenting; Hara Estroff Marano, A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting; and Tom Farrey, Game On: The All-American Race to Make Champions of Our Children
  by W. George Scarlett
  

• Marjorie Harness Goodwin, The Hidden Life of Girls: Games of Stance, Status, and Exclusion
  by Tracy Vaillancourt

• Lawrence C. Rubin, ed., Popular Culture in Counseling, Psychotherapy, and Play-Based Interventions
  by Natalya Ann Edwards
  

• Elizabeth Goodenough, ed., A Place for Play: A Companion Volume to the Michigan Television Film “Where do the Children Play?”
  by Rhonda Clements

• Leslie Paris, Children’s Nature: The Rise of the American Summer Camp 
  by Jay Mechling
  

• Tim Gill, No Fear: Growing up in a Risk Averse Society
  by Mary Rivkin

INTERVIEW:

• What’s Wrong with America’s Playgrounds and How to Fix Them: An Interview with Joe L. Frost
  
  

ARTICLES:

• The Nature of Play: An Overview
  by Thomas Henricks
  

• The Recess Debate: A Disjuncture between Educational Policy and Scientific Research
  by Anthony D. Pellegrini
  

• Gun Play
  by Jay Mechling
  

• Play Therapy: Practice, Issues, and Trends
  by Linda E. Homeyer and Mary O. Morrison
  

• Cats and Portals: Video Games, Learning, and Play
  by James Paul Gee

BOOK REVIEWS:

• James Paul Gee, Good Video Games + Good Learning: Collected Essays on Video Games, Learning, and Literacy; Marc Prensky, “Don’t Bother Me Mom—I’m Learning!”: How Computer and Video Games Are Preparing Your Kids for Twenty-first Century Success—and How You Can Help!; and Dorothy G. Singer and Jerome L. Singer, Imagination and Play in the Electronic Age
  by Barrie Gunter

• Doris Pronin Fromberg and Doris Bergen, eds., Play from Birth to Twelve: Contexts, Perspectives, and Meanings (Second Edition)
  by Arne Trageton
  

• Jeff Wiltse, Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America
  by Gary Cross
  

• Patricia Campbell Warner, When the Girls Came Out to Play: The Birth of American Sportswear
  by Wanda Wakefield
  

• Artin Göncü and Suzanne Gaskins, eds., Play and Development: Evolutionary, Sociocultural, and Functional Perspectives
  by Robyn M. Holmes
  

• Dorothy G. Singer, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, eds., Play = Learning: How Play Motivates and Enhances Children’s Cognitive and Social-Emotional Growth
  by Doris Bergen

ARTICLES:

• The Power of Play: Learning What Comes Naturally
  by David Elkind
  
  
• Play in America from Pilgrims and Patriots to Kid Jocks and Joystick Jockeys: Or How Play Mirrors Social Change
  by Gary Cross
  
  
• Imaginary Companions: Pretending They Are Real but Knowing They Are Not
  by Marjorie Taylor and Candice M. Mottweiler
  
  
• Play, ADHD, and the Construction of the Social Brain: Should the First Class Each Day Be Recess?
  by Jaak Panksepp
  
  
• Play Theory: A Personal Journey and New Thoughts
  by Brian Sutton-Smith

BOOK REVIEWS:

• Howard P. Chudacoff, Children at Play: An American History
  by Steven Mintz
  
  
• David Elkind, The Power of Play: How Spontaneous, Imaginative Activities Lead to Happier, Healthier Children
  by Thomas Armstrong
  
  
• Joe L. Frost, Sue C. Wortham, and Stuart Reifel, Play and Child Development (Third Edition)
  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
  by Jay Mechling
  
  
• Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, Childhood on the Farm: Work, Play, and Coming of Age in the Midwest
  by Simon J. Bronner
  
  
• Christine Jeandheur Ferguson and Ernest Dettore, Jr., eds., To Play or Not to Play: Is It Really a Question?
  by Stuart Brown