Abstracts on child play areas and child support facilities.

Abstracts of 40 selected books and articles on the topic of interactions between children and their environments are provided in this document. Works abstracted were selected from a pool of over 1200 items. The abstracts are organized into five categories: (1) theories of child care and play; (2) child-environment research; (3) descriptions of facilities; (4) design guides; and (5) bibliographies. These materials, and approximately 800 more, are accessible through SPIN, an information storage and retrieval system developed at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. (Author/RH)