Browser the Mouse and His Internet Adventure. Barbara Trolley, Constance Hanel & Linda Shields, $22.50 (Grades K-5)

Browser learns about cyberbullying and making a safety plan. Includes an audio CD of songs that reinforce the book’s message concerning personal safety on the Internet.

The Case for Make Believe: Saving Play in a Commercialized World. Susan Linn, $22.50

In The Case for Make Believe, Harvard child psychologist Susan Linn tells the alarming story of childhood under siege in a commercialized and technology-saturated world.

In an era when toys come from television and media companies sell videos as brain-builders for babies, Linn lays out the inextricable links between play, creativity, and  health, showing us how and why to preserve the space for make believe that children need to lead fulfilling and meaningful lives.

Children and the Internet: Great Expectations, Challenging Realities. Sonia Livingstone, $31.95

This major new book by a leading researcher deliberately avoids a techno-celebratory approach and, instead, interprets children's everyday practices of internet use in relation to the complex and changing historical and cultural conditions of childhood in late modernity. Uniquely, Children and the Internet reveals the complex dynamic between online opportunities and online risks, exploring this in relation to much debated issues such as:

• Digital in/exclusion
• Learning and literacy
• Peer networking and privacy
•  Civic participation
• Risk and harm

Drawing on current theories of identity, development, education and participation, this book includes a refreshingly critical account of the challenging realities undermining the great expectations held out for the internet. It concludes with a forward-looking framework for policy and regulation designed to advance children's rights to expression, connection and play online as well as offline.

Consumed offers a vivid portrait of an overproducing global economy that targets children as consumers in a market where there are never enough shoppers and where the primary goal is no longer to manufacture goods but needs … He asserts that in place of the Protestant ethic once associated with capitalism—encouraging self-restraint, preparing for the future, protecting and self-sacrificing for children and community, and other characteristics of adulthood—we are constantly being seduced into an “infantilist” ethic of consumption.

Cyber-Bullying: Issues and Solutions for the School, the Classroom and the Home. Shaheen Shariff, $41.95

Cyber-bullying is expanding with the use of modern technology — home computers and personal mobile phones — and provides youth with ‘an arsenal of weapons for social cruelty’. Addressing the policy vacuum relating to the boundaries of on-line supervision through informed guidelines for school administrators, teachers, parents and policy-makers, this book will help all stakeholders navigate the emerging challenges relating to student freedom of expression, privacy, safety and discipline in cyber-space.

Die Tryin’ — Video Games, Masculinity and Culture. Derek Burrill, $39.95

An academic and research-based look at the cultural and sociological connections between videogames, masculinity and digital culture.

Do you speak the same tech-language as your kids? This practical and informative resource provides parents with the information they need about new technologies and the culture that goes along with them. Learn how to make the most of what the Internet, your computer and other technologies have to offer you and your family.

Gender and the Media. Rosalind Gill, $29.99

Written in a clear and accessible style, with plenty of examples from British and American media, this book offers a critical introduction to the study of gender in the media and an up-to-date assessment of the key issues and debates.

Generation Text examines the ways in which children’s identities are shaped by the world around them…and how, with an absence of meaningful barriers between impulse and the ability to act on them, parents can help children learn to make intelligent choices and manage the potential overload successfully.

In this groundbreaking and timely book, Drs. Lawrence Kutner and Cheryl Olson cut through the myths and hysteria, and reveal the surprising truth about kids and violent games.

Television, video games, and computers are easily accessible to twenty-first-century children, but what impact do they have on creativity and imagination? In this book, two wise and long-admired observers of children's make-believe look at the cognitive and moral potential, and concern, created by electronic media.

As Dorothy and Jerome Singer show, violent images in games and TV are as toxic as many observers have feared by stimulating destructive ideas and troubling aggression. But should all electronic media be banned from children's lives? Calmly and authoritatively, the Singers argue that in fact some screen time can enrich children's creativity and play, and can even promote school readiness. With guidance from parents and teachers, empathy, creativity, and imagination can expand and intensify in the electronic age.

i-SAFE Internet Safety Activities: Reproducible Projects for Teachers and Parents, Grades K-8. i-SAFE, $35.95

Most school-age children use the Internet every day. However, many possess naive attitudes about their online safety and can inadvertently engage in a range of high-risk behaviors. Developed by i-SAFE™, the leading nonprofit organization dedicated to Internet safety education, this important resource offers a series of fun lessons and teachers' guides to help students in grades K-8 learn how to stay safe online.

Filled with activities, this easy-to-use guide helps elementary and middle school students develop their Internet skills while keeping safe.

This handy reference offers some sage advice and a few laughs on the best — and the worst — of kid culture.

Rather than a doom-and-gloom approach to why our kids should not watch TV, Barbara Brock has taken a more positive approach. In Living Outside the Box, we hear the voices of hundreds of families who live TV-free and about all the encouraging benefits this decision has brought to their lives.

For anyone — any family — considering cutting back on or eliminating television from their lives, this is an optimistic guide to life without TV.

Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture. Allison Pugh, $28.95

In Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture, Allison Pugh teases out the complex factors that contribute to how we buy (and) the stark inequalities facing American children. … Pugh masterfully illuminates the surprising similarities in the fears and hopes of parents and children from vastly different social contexts, showing that while corporate marketing and materialism play a part in the commodification of childhood, at the heart of the matter is the desire to belong.

Media, Gender and Identity. David Gauntlett, $39.95

This highly readable book explores theories about popular culture and the relationship between media and identity. Along with an outline of creative approaches to exploring the media’s influence on gender identity, Gauntlett discusses film, magazines, TV, self-help books, YouTube and more, to show how media plays a role in the shaping of self-perception.

Books in this series give readers a simple introduction to using computers, e-mail, and the Internet. Practice activities in each title help readers practice what they learn. In addition, Stay Safe boxes in each title teach readers how to use computers safely.

My First Internet Guide. Chris Oxlade, $9.95

My First Computer Guide. Chris Oxlade, $9.95

My First E-Mail Guide. Chris Oxlade, $9.95

In this insightful assessment of our relationship with the small screen, psychologist and broadcaster Dr. Aric Sigman reveals the alarming reality of what television is doing to us physically, emotionally, intellectually and socially. Remotely Controlled is much more than an indictment of the dangers of watching television. Sigman aims to draw our awareness to the glaring imbalance in our lives and show us how we can re-establish control away from the remote control. Remotely Controlled is a compelling read which will cause readers to take a step back and reassess our viewing habits.

Taking Back Childhood: Helping Your Kids Thrive in a Fast-Paced, Media-Saturated, Violence-Filled World. Nancy Carlsson-Paige, $16.50

An innovative road map to help parents bring creative play, quality relationships, and a sense of confidence and personal safety back into their kids’ lives. Grounded in child development research, this is a practical, hands-on approach to creating a safe, open and imaginative environment in which children can flourish.

• Find out how technology is part of everyday life
• Exercise their brain with mind-bending activities
• Meet eight women who use technology in their careers

Unplug Your Kids: a Parent’s Guide to Raising Happy, Active and Well-Adjusted Children in the Digital Age. David Dutwin, $19.95

Unplug Your Kids shows parents how to find the balance between technology and active lifestyles for their kids.

Video Games & Your Kids: How Parents Stay in Control. Hilarie Cash & Kim McDaniel, $20.95

Based on research and the authors’ clinical experience, Video Games & Your Kids explains what gaming addiction is, how much gaming is too much, and the affects gaming has on the body and brain. The authors give gaming advice on each stage of life; ages 2-6, elementary school years, adolescence, and adult children still living at home. Where there is a problem, the authors provide parents with tools that will help the parents successfully set appropriate limits for their children. It also explains the need to consult with professionals and use the process of formal interventions when the addiction is so severe that the parents are no longer able to manage the situation.