Producing Children

Introduction 
PETER C. KUNZE AND VICTORIA FORD SMITH

PART ONE
Authorship

1 Daisy Ashford and the Child Writer’s Use of Scale
KATHARINE SLATER

2 “I didn’t die and felt the Earth”: Nature and the Urgency of Perception for Young Black Poets in The Voice of the Children Workshop
RACHEL CONRAD

3 Representations of Youth Environmental Activism and Agency in Aika Tsubota’s Secrets of the Earth
BRIANNA ANDERSON

PART TWO
Performance and Play

4 Phillis Wheatley’s Image and the Creative Black Child
BRIGITTE FIELDER

5 “When he saw the pencil put to paper”: The Meaning-Making of Children’s Language in Depression-Era Harlem
MAGGIE E. MORRIS DAVIS

6 Creative Testimonio as Activism: A Case Study of Sophie Cruz and Sarai Gonzalez
CRISTINA RHODES

7 Acting Up: Child Actors as Authors and Collaborators in Contemporary World Cinema
PETER C. KUNZE

PART THREE
Collaboration and Cocreation

8 “Mostly Written By”: A Cookbook Model for Reading Children’s Art
IVY LINTON STABELL

9 Negotiating Nightmares: Improvising with Children in Arthur Tress’s The Dream Collector
VICTORIA FORD SMITH

10 Choreographing Kinship: The Adult-Child Pas de Deux in Day on Earth and Lineage
MARAH GUBAR

11 Charli, Charlie, and Me: An Autoethnographic Study of TikTok Dance and Child/Adult Collaborations
TREVOR BOFFONE

Notes on Contributors
Index