Children category: 1253 books
Graphic Girlhoods
Visualizing Education and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Drawing on a dynamic set of "graphic texts of girlhood," Elizabeth Marshall identifies the locations, cultural practices, and representational strategies through which schoolgirls experience real and metaphorical violence. How is the schoolgirl made legible through violence in graphic texts...
Girls on Fire
Transformative Heroines in Young Adult Dystopian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Under the threat of climate change, corruption, inequality and injustice, Americans may feel they are living in a dystopian novel come to life. Like many American narratives, dystopian stories often focus on males as the agents of social change. With a focus on the intersections of race, gender, class,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
This thoroughly revised edition includes updated essays on cultural themes and literary analysis, and its new essays analyze the full scope of the seven-book series as both pop cultural phenomenon and as a set of literary texts. Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter, Second Edition draws on a wider...
English Teaching and New Literacies Pedagogy
Interpreting and Authoring Digital Multimedia Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
English Teaching and New Literacies Pedagogy: Interpreting and Authoring Digital Multimedia Narratives is about the fusion of media and narrative, and explores theoretical and practical dimensions of young people’s engagement with contemporary forms of text. It showcases a range of critical interpretative...
by Mabel Van Niekerk
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Learn to cast on stitches and knit with ease if you are left-handed and have in the past struggled to get a grip on it from a right-handed tutor. I have found that right-handed knitters are favored far above us Lefties. I have yet to find a commercial pattern created especially for us left-handed...
by Mabel Van Niekerk
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Aprons are ideal for kids to wear when playing with paints and clay, helping in the garden and assisting mom or grandma in the kitchen to catch up all the spills and splashes that can occur. Here are a few patterns and ideas that are easy to make and can be adapted to suit the size of your kids. It’s...
Pocket Companion to Narnia
A Guide to the Magical World of C.S. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The pocket guide is an adventurer's passport to the land of Narnia. From Aslan, the great lion, to Zardeenah, the mysterious lady of the night, this comprehensive and accessible companion contains hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries covering all the characters, events, places, and themes that...
Origami Fun for Kids Ebook
20 Fantastic Folding and Coloring Projects: Origami Book, Fun & Easy Projects, and Downloadable Instructional Video
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Origami Fun for Kids is a great way to foster creativity by providing dozens of different paper activities. Nothing beats the sense of accomplishment that kids gain from making something with their own hands. Parents will love this ebook as it allows kids to learn and play at their own pace-and maybe...
Recovery the Native Way
A Client Reader
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
This book is written in the belief that many Native substance abusers suffer because their cultural heritage is being swept away or because they have lost contact with it. While Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous provide wonderful leadership to millions of people, they do not deal with the...
by Allison Chappell
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2012
If you haven't yet used polymer clay as an artistic sculpting medium, I suggest you try them. Unlike ceramic, you don't need to worry about keeping them moist while you are sculpting or that it will explode while being baked. Polymer clays remain firm but pliable for years if stored in a cool, dark...
Pete Hautman
Speaking the Truth to Teens
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Pete Hautman is an author who likes to tackle big ideas—from addiction and psychosis to the nature of belief and what the world is coming to—in his fiction for teen readers. In novels like Mr. Was, Sweetblood, Invisible, Rash, and the National Book Award winner, Godless, Hautman leavens his exploration...
by Marlowe Daly-Galeano, Eva Lupold, Christiane E. Farnan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture examines the ways in which young female heroines in American series fiction have undergone dramatic changes in the past 150 years, changes which have both reflected and modeled standards of behavior for America’s tweens and teen girls. Though series...
From Brown to Bunter
The Life and Death of the School Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Originally published in 1985. This is a fascinating account of the life cycle of a minor literary genre, the boys’ school story. It discusses early nineteenth-century precursors of the school story – didactic works with such revealing titles as The Parents’ Assistant – and goes on to examine...
by EK Jasmine
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
This is the story of a very frolicsome and quite determined, yet inquisitive little crab, who tries, every waking minute, to expand his horizons by stretching the boundaries of his parents’ instructions. His specialty; exploring off-limit glades, the wild ocean, and rough areas; places his parents...