001478596 000__ 04902nam\a22007935i\4500 001478596 001__ 1478596 001478596 003__ DE-B1597 001478596 005__ 20231026034947.0 001478596 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001478596 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001478596 008__ 221201t20052005mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001478596 020__ $$a9780674040922 001478596 0247_ $$a10.4159/9780674040922$$2doi 001478596 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)588897 001478596 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1294424056 001478596 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001478596 0410_ $$aeng 001478596 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001478596 072_7 $$aPSY004000$$2bisacsh 001478596 08204 $$a636.088/7/019 001478596 084__ $$aCQ 6000$$2rvk 001478596 1001_ $$aMelson, Gail F., $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001478596 24510 $$aWhy the Wild Things Are :$$bAnimals in the Lives of Children /$$cGail F. Melson. 001478596 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA : $$bHarvard University Press, $$c[2005] 001478596 264_4 $$c©2005 001478596 300__ $$a1 online resource (256 p.) 001478596 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001478596 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001478596 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001478596 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001478596 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $$tCONTENTS -- $$tIntroduction -- $$t1. Animals and the Study of Children -- $$t2. Reaching across the Divide -- $$t3. Love on Four Legs -- $$t4. Learning from Animals -- $$t5. The Healing Lick -- $$t6. Animal Selves -- $$t7. Victims and Objects -- $$t8. Deepening the Animal Connection -- $$tNOTES -- $$tINDEX 001478596 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001478596 520__ $$aWhether they see themselves as King of the Wild Things or protector of Toto, children live in a world filled with animals--both real and imaginary. From Black Beauty to Barney, animal characters romp through children's books, cartoons, videos, and computer games. As Gail Melson tells us, more than three-quarters of all children in America live with pets and are now more likely to grow up with a pet than with both parents. She explores not only the therapeutic power of pet-owning for children with emotional or physical handicaps but also the ways in which zoo and farm animals, and even certain purple television characters, become confidants or teachers for children--and sometimes, tragically, their victims. Yet perhaps because animals are ubiquitous, what they really mean to children, for better and for worse, has been unexplored territory. Why the Wild Things Are is the first book to examine children's many connections to animals and to explore their developmental significance. What does it mean that children's earliest dreams are of animals? What is the unique gift that a puppy can give to a boy? Drawing on psychological research, history, and children's media, Why the Wild Things Are explores the growth of the human-animal connection. In chapters on children's emotional ties to their pets, the cognitive challenges of animal contacts, animal symbols as building blocks of the self, and pointless cruelty to animals, Melson shows how children's innate interest in animals is shaped by their families and their social worlds, and may in turn shape the kind of people they will become. 001478596 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001478596 546__ $$aIn English. 001478596 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) 001478596 650_7 $$aPSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child.$$2bisacsh 001478596 655_0 $$aElectronic books 001478596 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tHUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999$$z9783110442212 001478596 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tHarvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013$$z9783110442205 001478596 852__ $$bebk 001478596 85640 $$3De Gruyter$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674040922$$zOnline Access 001478596 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1478596$$pGLOBAL_SET 001478596 912__ $$a978-3-11-044220-5 Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013$$c2000$$d2013 001478596 912__ $$a978-3-11-044221-2 HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999$$c1893$$d1999 001478596 912__ $$aEBA_BACKALL 001478596 912__ $$aEBA_CL_SN 001478596 912__ $$aEBA_EBACKALL 001478596 912__ $$aEBA_EBKALL 001478596 912__ $$aEBA_ECL_SN 001478596 912__ $$aEBA_EEBKALL 001478596 912__ $$aEBA_ESSHALL 001478596 912__ $$aEBA_PPALL 001478596 912__ $$aEBA_SSHALL 001478596 912__ $$aGBV-deGruyter-alles 001478596 912__ $$aPDA11SSHE 001478596 912__ $$aPDA13ENGE 001478596 912__ $$aPDA17SSHEE 001478596 912__ $$aPDA5EBK 001478596 980__ $$aBIB 001478596 980__ $$aEBOOK 001478596 982__ $$aEbook 001478596 983__ $$aOnline