Child's Play

Author: Andrew Neiderman
Publisher: Diversion Books
ISBN: 1626817928
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 281

Book Description
A chilling tale from the bestselling author of The Devil’s Advocate, “a master of psychological thrillers” (V. C. Andrews). They were four perfect little children. Alex had taught them well. They helped with the house, set the table for meals, and went straight upstairs after dinner to do their homework. They did as they were told. Sharon didn’t miss the glances that passed between her husband and the foster children. From the day they arrived, they had looked up to Alex, worshiped him. Why, it even seemed they were beginning to act like Alex—right down to the icy sarcasm, the terrifying smile, and the evil gleam in their eyes when they looked at her. Oh yes, they’d do anything to please Alex. Anything at all . . .

Child's Play 2

Author: Matthew J. Costello
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 9780515104349
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description

Childs Play, Parts 1 and 2

Author: Wil Van Haren
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781869890773
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 191

Book Description
This book contains descriptions of 172 games for children from toddlerhood through adolescence, and is designed as a guide for parents, teachers, and play leaders. Following an introduction describing the child's relationship to games, the book is divided into two parts. Part 1 is aimed at toddlers and contains over 90 circle games, singing games, and games based on traditional crafts. Part 2 is divided into sections according to age, and gives descriptions and backgrounds of games with movements. Recommended ages are given for each game, and music notation for each game is included. (KB)

Child's Play 3

Author: Matthew J. Costello
Publisher: Jove Publications
ISBN: 9780515107630
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250

Book Description
Eight years have passed since Andy Barclay's doll, Chucky, had terrorized his young life, and when the toy company brings the Good Guy doll back to the shelves, Chucky gets a second chance to play mass murderer

Child's Play

Author: Ramiro Jose Peralta
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788416733767
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Danny loves music; Molly loves painting; and Marcus loves writing. And they all love playing together. But there's something worrying them: they'll soon be moving to a new house. Child's Play is a tale of love, dedicated to creativity, to change, and to all of the children who have had to leave their home countries in search of a brighter future.

Child's Play

Author: Sabine Frühstück
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520296273
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 314

Book Description
Few things make Japanese adults feel quite as anxious today as the phenomenon called the “child crisis.” Various media teem with intense debates about bullying in schools, child poverty, child suicides, violent crimes committed by children, the rise of socially withdrawn youngsters, and forceful moves by the government to introduce a more conservative educational curriculum. These issues have propelled Japan into the center of a set of global conversations about the nature of children and how to raise them. Engaging both the history of children and childhood and the history of emotions, contributors to this volume track Japanese childhood through a number of historical scenarios. Such explorations—some from Japan’s early-modern past—are revealed through letters, diaries, memoirs, family and household records, and religious polemics about promising, rambunctious, sickly, happy, and dutiful youngsters.

Child's Play

Author: Danielle Steel
Publisher:
ISBN: 039917950X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
In this riveting new novel, Steel explores how families can evolve and grow in unexpected ways.

Child's Play

Author: Monica Cardoza
Publisher: Citadel Press
ISBN: 9780806523385
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
The author shows ways to foster a child's curiosity and creativity with activities ranging from rocket science to rock climbing, stamp collecting to sculpture.

Child's Play

Author: Laurence R. Goldman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000180840
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250

Book Description
This innovative book finally takes seriously the need for anthropologists to produce in-depth ethnographies of children's play. In examining the subject from a cross-cultural perspective, the author argues that our understanding of the way children transform their environment to create make-believe is enhanced by viewing their creations as oral poetry. The result is a richly detailed ‘thick description' of how pretence is socially mediated and linguistically constructed, how children make sense of their own play, how play relates to other imaginative genres in Huli life, and the relationship between play and cosmology. Informed by theoretical approaches in the anthropology of play, developmental and child psychology, philosophy and phenomenology and drawing on ethnographic data from Melanesia, the book analyzes the sources for imitation, the kinds of identities and roles emulated, and the structure of collaborative make-believe talk to reveal the complex way in which children invoke their experiences of the world and re-invent them as types of virtual reality. Particular importance is placed on how the figures of the ogre and trickster are articulated. The author demonstrates that while the concept of ‘imagination' has been the cornerstone of Western intellectual traditions from Plato to Postmodernism, models of child fantasy play have always intruded into such theorizing because of children's unique capacity to throw into relief our understanding of the relationship between representation and reality.

Child's Play

Author: Silken Laumann
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307369846
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
From one of Canada’s most inspiring and gifted sports heroes, an urgently needed guide to getting our kids active and healthy. Like many of us, Silken Laumann’s fondest childhood memories are of play: staying outside until that final call for dinner, neighbourhood-wide games of Capture-the-Flag and road hockey that went on for hours. But as a parent, Silken knows the world has changed. We are afraid to let our children out of sight, our streets don’t feel safe, neighbours don’t know and rely on each other like they used to. While we recognize the need for our kids to be active, our fears, along with our busy lives and the enormous societal pressure to (simultaneously) make athletes, academics, and artists out of our children, have led us to schedule their every activity, driving them to and from soccer practice, piano lessons, tutorials. We have forgotten just how important unstructured play is for our children’s development and well-being: It keeps kids healthy, creative and active; it teaches them valuable life skills and, most importantly, it lets our kids be kids, worry-free, unfettered. Child’s Play is a call for action, a guide to reconnecting with our kids, and a blueprint for building safe, supportive communities and healthy schools. Above all, it’s a book of simple ideas for parents desperate for change.