About this title: A gifted teacher explores her young students' understanding of a startlingly violent fantasy game they play called suicide. Holding group discussion, she (or rather the children) illustrate the phenomenon of very young children needing to make sense of violent imagery.
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Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Dust jacket has spots and marks. Dust jacket has wear on its edges. It is In fairly good shape. It is In good reading condition. read more
Description: Good. 0807031283 Former library item may have library binding and show stamps, stickers or other marks. Items not meeting quality expectations may be returned. Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. read more
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Ex) Library Copy. Moderate wear on Cover/Interior Pages. Usual library markings. (W3) Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 130 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Beacon Press, Boston
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780807031285ISBN:0807031283
Description: Fine. 0807031283 From Booklist Katch, a teacher, relates her day-to-day observations of five-and six-year-old children, increasingly enamored and engaged in violent play-acting. Over the course of a year, Katch watched children reenacting violence from television and movies and even creating a game called Suicide. She engages parents, older children, and other teachers in her efforts to record how students are acting out violence and how to reduce violent influences on children. Katch ... read more
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Pages are clean and tightly bound, slightly tanned, unmarked. Dust jacket has some scuffing to flats from shelf storage. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 130 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Beacon Press, Boston, MA
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780807031285ISBN:0807031283
Description: Near Fine in Very Good + jacket. Clean, tight text. Back board of book indented. Dust jacket shows slight edgewear and crease. Dust jacket now covered with a clear polyester film protector. read more
Description: Good. 0807031283 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780807031292ISBN:0807031291
Description: The five-and six-year-olds in my class have invented a new game they call suicide. I have never seen a game I hate so much in which all the children involved are so happy. So begins Under Deadman's Skin, a deceptively simple-and compellingly readable... read more
Description: Fine. In very good condition with cover, spine and pages clean and intact. Neatly stored. International orders via air mail except large books. read more
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