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. She is Director of the Center for Young People’s Literature and Culture at the Institute of English Studies (University of Wrocław). 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). She is Coordinator of the Centre for Research on Children’s and Young Adult Literature at the University of Wrocław.

• Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, University of Wrocław with Irena Barbara Kalla, University of WrocławIntroduction: The Playground of Children’s Literature Part One: Social and Political Contexts of Play Chapter 1 Birgitte Beck Pristed (Aarhus University, Denmark)The ABC of Late Soviet Wastepaper for Pioneers and Their ParentsChapter 2 Jan Van Coillie (KU Leuven, Belgium)How Delightful is a Child at Play? Play in Children’s Literature in Flanders during the Nineteenth Century: A Systemic ApproachChapter 3 Sarah Hoem Iversen (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway)‘When you have said your les-sons well, then you shall go out to play’: Play, Gender, and the Child Addressee in Nineteenth-century Children’s DictionariesChapter 4 Yoo Kyung Sung (University of New Mexico, USA)Transnationalism and Play in Mexican Children’s Childhood and Multicultural Children’s Literature in the United StatesChapter 5 Sally Sims Stokes (Catholic University of America, USA)Requiem for a Rabbit Scut: The Playful Encounter in Streatfeild and Hutton’s HarlequinadeChapter 6 Blanka Grzegorczyk (University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University, UK)Girls, Boys, Bombs, Toys: Terror and Play in Contemporary Children’s FictionPart Two: Constructs of Children’s Agency in Play Representations of Childhood and PlayChapter 7 Elliot Schreiber (Vassar College, USA)Branching out from the Family Tree: Fairy Tales, Imaginative Play, and Intergenerational Relations in Works by the Brothers Grimm, Ludwig Tieck, and Hans Christian AndersenChapter 8 Ilaria Filograsso (University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy)Language Play in Adult-Child Relationships: Gianni Rodari’s Pedagogical and Literary ConceptsChapter 9 Elisabeth L. Nelson (University of Glasgow, UK)Recollecting Childhood: Writing the Child at Play Chapter 10 Taraneh Matloob Haghanikar (University of Northern Iowa, USA) & Linda M. Pavonetti (Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, USA)Representations of Play in Caldecott Medal and Honor Books during 1938-1949 and 2001-2014Part Three: Materialities of PlayChapter 11 Jennifer Farrar (University of Glasgow, UK)Encounters with Metafiction: Playing with Ideas of What Counts When It Comes to ReadingChapter 12 Zofia Zasacka (National Library and the Educational Research Institute, Poland)Playing and Reading Together: The Beginnings of Literary SocializationChapter 13 Elżbieta Jamróz-Stolarska (University of Wroclaw, Poland)Crossing Boundaries in Children’s Books: The Role of the Author, Illustrator and Publisher in Creating Playful Books for Young ReadersCodaChapter 14 Jean Webb (University of Worcester, UK)Reflection on Playing and Puzzling with Alice and Tom

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. She is Director of the Center for Young People’s Literature and Culture at the Institute of English Studies (University of Wrocław). 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). She is Coordinator of the Centre for Research on Children’s and Young Adult Literature at the University of Wrocław.

• Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, University of Wrocław with Irena Barbara Kalla, University of WrocławIntroduction: The Playground of Children’s Literature Part One: Social and Political Contexts of Play Chapter 1 Birgitte Beck Pristed (Aarhus University, Denmark)The ABC of Late Soviet Wastepaper for Pioneers and Their ParentsChapter 2 Jan Van Coillie (KU Leuven, Belgium)How Delightful is a Child at Play? Play in Children’s Literature in Flanders during the Nineteenth Century: A Systemic ApproachChapter 3 Sarah Hoem Iversen (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway)‘When you have said your les-sons well, then you shall go out to play’: Play, Gender, and the Child Addressee in Nineteenth-century Children’s DictionariesChapter 4 Yoo Kyung Sung (University of New Mexico, USA)Transnationalism and Play in Mexican Children’s Childhood and Multicultural Children’s Literature in the United StatesChapter 5 Sally Sims Stokes (Catholic University of America, USA)Requiem for a Rabbit Scut: The Playful Encounter in Streatfeild and Hutton’s HarlequinadeChapter 6 Blanka Grzegorczyk (University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University, UK)Girls, Boys, Bombs, Toys: Terror and Play in Contemporary Children’s FictionPart Two: Constructs of Children’s Agency in Play Representations of Childhood and PlayChapter 7 Elliot Schreiber (Vassar College, USA)Branching out from the Family Tree: Fairy Tales, Imaginative Play, and Intergenerational Relations in Works by the Brothers Grimm, Ludwig Tieck, and Hans Christian AndersenChapter 8 Ilaria Filograsso (University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy)Language Play in Adult-Child Relationships: Gianni Rodari’s Pedagogical and Literary ConceptsChapter 9 Elisabeth L. Nelson (University of Glasgow, UK)Recollecting Childhood: Writing the Child at Play Chapter 10 Taraneh Matloob Haghanikar (University of Northern Iowa, USA) & Linda M. Pavonetti (Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, USA)Representations of Play in Caldecott Medal and Honor Books during 1938-1949 and 2001-2014Part Three: Materialities of PlayChapter 11 Jennifer Farrar (University of Glasgow, UK)Encounters with Metafiction: Playing with Ideas of What Counts When It Comes to ReadingChapter 12 Zofia Zasacka (National Library and the Educational Research Institute, Poland)Playing and Reading Together: The Beginnings of Literary SocializationChapter 13 Elżbieta Jamróz-Stolarska (University of Wroclaw, Poland)Crossing Boundaries in Children’s Books: The Role of the Author, Illustrator and Publisher in Creating Playful Books for Young ReadersCodaChapter 14 Jean Webb (University of Worcester, UK)Reflection on Playing and Puzzling with Alice and Tom