This book offers multifaceted reflection on interdependences between children and adults as they engage in play in literary texts and in real life. The volume brings together international children’s literature scholars who each look at children’s texts as key vehicles of intergenerational play reflecting ideologies of childhood and as objects with which children and adults interact physically, emotionally, and cognitively. Each chapter applies a distinct theoretical approach to selected children’s texts, including individual and social play, constructive play, or play deprivation. This collection of essays constitutes a timely voice in the current discussion about the importance of children’s play and adults’ contribution to it vis-à-vis the increasing limitations of opportunities for children’s playful time in contemporary societies.

Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak is Associate Professor of Literature at the University of Wrocław. She has published among others on utopianism in children’s literature and participatory approaches in children’s literature studies.
Irena Barbara Kalla is Associate Professor at the University of Wrocław, Dutch Studies. She has published on Dutch and Flemish literature, including Huisbeelden in de moderne Nederlandstalige poëzie (2012) and Minoes, Minnie, Minu en andere katse streken (with J. Van Coillie, 2017).

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