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Books about Play
Perspectives on Play with Violent Themes

Kline, Stephen. Out of the Garden: Toys, TV, and Children's Culture in the Age of Marketing. 1995.

Osofsky, Joy D. Children in a Violent Society. 1997.

Rosemond, John. Raising a Nonviolent Child. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2000.

Slaby, Ronald G; Roedell, Wendy, C; Arezzo, Diana; and Hendrix, Kate. Early Violence Prevention. Washington, D.C.: National Association for the Education of Young Children, 1995.


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Play is a major avenue for learning to manage anxiety. It gives the child a safe space where she can experiment at will, suspending the rules and constraints of physical and social reality. In play, the child becomes master rather than subject.... Play allows the child to transcend passivity and to become the active doer of what happens around her.

--Alicia F. Lieberman, author, The Emotional Life -- of the Toddler


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