The preparation for a lifetime of reading enjoyment makes children's literature that special something.'' (Author/CB)

A discussion of the pedagogue's three roles: as adviser on script selection and treatment, as researcher into psychological effects of productions, and as liaison between the theatre and the child audience. (Author/SP)

American children spend more time watching television than studying or communicating with their parents. Such a pervasive source of stimulation should be a matter of research significance for psychologists and educators. (Author/MJL)

Notes that few books dealing with computers are available for elementary school students. Provides an annotated list of the books that are available and makes suggestions for their use. (FL)

Focusing on those elements of children's preferences which link gender to social structure, the present study analyzes children's letters to Santa Claus. Findings show boys' and girls' requests to be similar when aspects of the child's world are measured and quite different when qualities representing the adult social order are measured.…

Results of this study involving 120 kindergarten and first-grade boys and girls suggest that some understanding of the invariance of number appears to emerge earlier than the ability to pass the standard verbal test. (BH)

Describes Compact Disc Interactive (CD-I), a multimedia product targeted toward consumers that combines audio, video, and graphic materials on compact disc and connects to a standard television. Titles that the vendor plans to offer are listed, and include children's materials, special interest materials, and entertainment titles. (LRW)

Explores aspects of autobiographical accounts of childhood. Considers Freudian explanations of how recollections of childhood are bound by memory; then describes the distinctive form of definitions of oneself-as-child and relates them to post-modern theories about the self. Discusses ways in which recollections of childhood are framed by the…

This study explored preschool teachers' beliefs about the appropriateness of early literacy and mathematics education. In all, 60 teachers of 4-year-olds, half working with low-socioeconomic status (SES) children at publicly funded preschools and the other half with middle-SES children at private preschools, were randomly assigned to read either…

Previous research in laboratory settings has found that preschool girls show more interest in babies than do preschool boys. To validate these findings in natural settings, 71 children at 3 and 5 years of age were observed by their parents as the children interacted with babies in their daily lives. Each child was observed with three different…

Two experiments investigated the question of whether those attributes of stimuli effective in eliciting attention are also effective in motivating choice. (Editor)

An examination of a sample of the books selected by children for reading revealed a significant relationship between rejection and the number of words and proportion of illustrations which a book contained. (Author/RK)

Author examined creativity in young children and revealed some myths about the concept. (RK)