Children's Geographies: Playing, Living, Learning

Children, Youth and Environments Vol. 13 No. 2 (2003) ISSN: 1546-2250 Children's Geographies: Playing, Living, Learning Holloway, Sarah and Valentine, Gill (2000). London and New York: Routledge; 271 pages. ISBN 0415207304. Two recent books from Routledge, Children's Geographiesand Geographies of Young Peopletrace a knife edge between an excited engagement with the spatiality ofchildren's lives and a sober awareness of the limitations of thesespaces and the opportunities children and young people have forengaging them. It is in many ways an exciting and anxiety-provokingmoment to be studying and doing research with young people. These twovolumes in Routledge's "Critical Geographies" series are evidence ofboth…