Recommended Reading

If you want more information on a topic from Adproofing your kids, or want to know more about these issues and how they impact on our children, try the following books. We’ll be adding to this page over time with relevant multimedia bits and pieces. For links, you can find Tania’s bookmark collection over on Del.ici.ous – check the sidebar to the right.

Happy reading!

General

Buckingham, D. After the death of childhood: Growing up in the age of electronic media, Polity Press, Cambridge, UK, 2000

Carlsson-Paige, N. Taking back childhood: Helping your kids thrive in a fastpaced, media-saturated, violence-filled world, Hudson Street Press, New York, 2008

DeGaetano, G. Parenting Well in a Media Age: Keeping Our Kids Human, Personhood Press, California, 2004

Linn, S. The case for make believe: Saving play in a commercialized world, The New Press, New York, 2008

Schor, J. B. Born to Buy, Scribner, New York, 2005

Advertising/Marketing/Brands

Acuff, D.S., and Reiher, R. H. What Kids Buy and Why: The Psychology of Marketing to Kids, The Free Press, New York, 1997

Carlsson-Paige, N. Taking back childhood: Helping your kids thrive in a fast-paced, media-saturated, violence-filled world, Hudson Street Press, New York, 2008

Gregory Thomas, S. Buy, buy baby: How Consumer Culture Manipulates Parents and Harms Young Minds, Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, 2007

Gunter, B., and Furnham, A. Children as Consumers: A psychological analysis of the young people’s market, Routledge, London, 2004

Klein, N. No Logo, Flamingo, London, 2000

Lamb, S., and Brown, L.M. Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing our Daughters from Marketers’ Schemes, St Martin’s Press, New York, 2006

Linn, S. The case for make believe: Saving play in a commercialized world, The New Press, New York, 2008

McNeal, J. Kids as Customers: A Handbook of Marketing to Children, Lexington Books, New York, 1992

Schor, J. B. Born to Buy, Scribner, New York, 2005

Pester Power/Consumerism/Materialism

Gunter, B., and Furnham, A. Children as Consumers: A psychological analysis of the young people’s market, Routledge, London, 2004

Kanner, A., and Kasser, T. (eds). Psychology and Consumer Culture: The struggle for a good life in a materialistic world, American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, 2004

Kasser, T. The High Price of Materialism, MIT Press, Massachusetts, 2002

Lamb, S., and Brown, L.M. Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing our Daughters from Marketers’ Schemes, St Martin’s Press, New York, 2006

Lindstrom, M. Buyology: How Everything We Believe About Why We Buy is Wrong, Random House Business Books, London, 2008

Lindstrom, M., and Seybold, P.B. Brand Child: Remarkable insights into the minds of today’s global kids and their relationships with brands, Kogan Page, London, 2004

Linn, S. Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood, The New Press, New York, 2004

Schor, J. B. Born to Buy, Scribner, New York, 2005

Underhill, P. Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1999

Body Image

Kater, K. Real kids come in all sizes, Broadway Books, New York, 2004

Kausman, R. If not dieting, then what? Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2005

Kilbourne, J. How advertising changes the way we think and feel. Touchstone, New York, 1999

Lamb, S., and Brown, L.M. Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing our Daughters from Marketers’ Schemes, St Martin’s Press, New York, 2006

Sweet, M. The Big Fat Conspiracy: How to protect your family’s health, ABC Books, Sydney, 2007

Tebbel, C. The Body Snatchers: How the media shapes women, Finch Publishing, Sydney, 2000

Media Violence and Fear

Cantor, J. Mommy, I’m Scared: How TV and movies frighten children and what we can do to protect them, Harcourt Brace & Company, New York, 1998

Carlsson-Paige, N. Taking back childhood: Helping your kids thrive in a fastpaced, media-saturated, violence-filled world, Hudson Street Press, New York, 2008

Hall, J. Fear-free children, Finch Publishing, Sydney, 2001

Levin, D. E. Remote Control Childhood? Combating the Hazards of Media Culture, National Association for the Education of Young Children, Washington, DC, 1998

Levin, D. E. Teaching Young Children in Violent Times: Building a Peaceable Classroom, co-published by Educators for Social Responsibility, Massachusetts, and National Association for the Education of Young Children, Washington, DC, 2003

Levin, D. E., and Carlsson-Paige, N. The War Play Dilemma: Who’s calling the shots?, Teachers College Press, New York, 2006

Sexualisation

Kilbourne, J. How advertising changes the way we think and feel. Touchstone, New York, 1999

Lamb, S., and Brown, L.M. Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing our Daughters from Marketers’ Schemes, St Martin’s Press, New York, 2006

Levin, D. E. Remote Control Childhood? Combating the Hazards of Media Culture, National Association for the Education of Young Children, Washington, DC, 1998

Levin, D. E., and Kilbourne, J. So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids, Ballantine Books, 2008

Tankard Reist, M. (ed) Getting Real: Challenging the sexualisation of girls, Spinifex Press, 2009

Television

Buckingham, D. After the death of childhood: Growing up in the age of electronic media, Polity Press, Cambridge, UK, 2000

Guernsey, L. Into th Minds of Babes: How Screen Time Affects Children From Birth to Age Five, Basic Books, New York, 2007

Lamb, S., and Brown, L.M. Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing our Daughters from Marketers’ Schemes, St Martin’s Press, New York, 2006

Levin, D. E. Remote Control Childhood? Combating the Hazards of Media Culture, National Association for the Education of Young Children, Washington, DC, 1998

Levin, D. E. Teaching Young Children in Violent Times: Building a Peaceable Classroom, co-published by Educators for Social Responsibility, Massachusetts, and National Association for the Education of Young Children, Washington, DC, 2003

Linn, S. Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood, The New Press, New York, 2004

Schor, J. B. Born to Buy, Scribner, New York, 2005

Internet

Buckingham, D. After the death of childhood: Growing up in the age of electronic media, Polity Press, Cambridge, UK, 2000

Carr-Gregg, M. Real Wired Child: What parents need to know about kids online, Penguin Group, Australia, 2007

Lamb, S., and Brown, L.M. Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing our Daughters from Marketers’ Schemes, St Martin’s Press, New York, 2006

Schor, J. B. Born to Buy, Scribner, New York, 2005

Play

Linn, S. The case for make believe: Saving play in a commercialized world, The New Press, New York, 2008