Books on Screen Media and Young Children

Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (2012)  Screen-Free Week 2012 Organizer’s Kitwww.screenfreeweek.org.

Carlsson-Paige, N. (2008) Taking Back Childhood: Helping your kids thrive in a 
fast-paced, media-saturated, violence-filled world. Hudson St. (See book review page)

National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education, Caring for Our Children (2011) http://nrckids.org/SearchResults.html?qNrcSrch=television&submit.x=9&submit.y=6

Cordes , C., & Miller, E. (2001)  Fool’s Gold:  A Critical Look at Computers in ChildhoodAlliance for Childhood.

DeGaetano, G. (2004)  Parenting Well in a Media Age:  Keeping our Kids HumanPersonhood Press.

Egenfeldt-Nielsen, S., & Heide Smith, J.  (2004)  Playing with Fire:  How Do Computer Games Influence the Player?  UNESCO International Clearinghouse on Children and Violence on the Screen at Nordicom

Levin, D., & Kilbourne, J. (2008)  So Sexy So Soon: The new sexualized childhood and what parents can do to protect their kids.  Ballantine Books.  (See book review page)

Levin, D. (1998)  Remote Controlled Childhood?  Combating the Hazards of Media Culture.  NAEYC.

Linn, S. (2005) Consuming Kids: Protecting Our Children from the Onslaught of Marketing & Advertising.  Anchor Books.

Linn, S. (2008) The Case for Make Believe: Saving Play in a Commercialized World.   The New Press.

Rideout, V. (2011) Zero to eight:  Children’s media use in America.  San Francisco, CA, Common Sense Media:  11, 25, 27.

Rideout, V. & Hamel, E.  (2006)  The Media Family:  Electronic Media in the Lives of Infants, Toddlers, Preschoolers, and their ParentsHenry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

Souza, M. D., & Cabello, P., Eds. (2010) The Emerging Media Toddlers  UNESCO International Clearinghouse on Children and Violence on the Screen at Nordicom.

von Feilitzen, C., & Bucht, C. (2001)  Outlooks on Children and Media:  Child Rights, Media Trends, Media Research, Media Literacy, Child Participation, DeclarationsUNESCO International Clearinghouse on Children and Violence on the Screen at Nordicom.

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