"The trampoline of letters and words" : juvenile linguistic play in the memoirs of Binyavanga Wainaina and Shailja Patel / Dorothy Wolff Giannakouros -- Notes on contributors -- Index. "Fits of vulgar joy" : spontaneous play in Book 1 of Wordsworth's The Prelude (1805) / Allison W. Powell -- Playing at work and working at play in Mark Twain's writings / Alan Gribben and Sarah Fredericks -- "Mammy, can't you tell us sump'n' to play?" : children's play as the locus for imaginative imitation and cultural exchange in the plantation novels of Louise Clarke Pyrnelle / Joyce E. Kelley -- Words with kids at play : sculpting truth and forging childhood friendships in Henry James's What Maisie Knew and Elizabeth Bowen's The House in Paris / Jericho Williams -- Idylls of play : L.M. Montgomery's child-worlds / Caroline E. Jones -- Katherine Mansfield's children at play / Janka Kascakova -- The buttons of the world are round : Gertrude Stein's toys / Michael Opest -- Playing pioneer : childhood, artistry, and play in the Little House series / Anna Lockhart -- "I'm ready to play now, you guys!" : J.D. Salinger, Steven Spielberg, and the healing power of children's play / Andy Clinton -- Free play and the prescriptive endgames of Orson Scott Card / Tim Bryant -- Children's play and mental illness in children's literature and film / Ian Wojcik-Andrews -- "The trampoline of letters and words" : juvenile linguistic play in the memoirs of Binyavanga Wainaina and Shailja Patel / Dorothy Wolff Giannakouros -- Notes on contributors -- Index.
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