Katie J Waters
In this brief but challenging novel, Ben, the youngest boy in a motherless family, has been called home, together with his siblings to deal with their father's recent stroke. Ben becomes convinced that their building of a barn will help to heal his father. It's a story of persistence, ...
non-traditional family structures (e.g. same sex parents) non-traditional gender identity (e.g. LGBTQ experiences) stories that feature a person with a disability There are word limitations: manuscripts for fiction should be less than 1500 words and nonfiction books should be less than 3000. Th...
As a sixth-grader, Marley Dias started a campaign to help make sure girls of all races have access to books that feature main characters who look like them. She also went on to write a book of her own. Learn more about how she is making a difference for other young girls! Community ...
This study examines the relationship between changing family living arrangements and psychological well-being of childrearing women when judged in concert with persistent life strains, stressful life events, and social support mechanisms. Using longitudinal data (N=833) on childrearing women in an urban...
highly-stylized adaptation of his ownSin Citybooks. It also bore a lot more of Miller’s own thematic hangups (particularly about women) than Eisner’s. Plus, it was ludicrously overblown and atrociously written. If you’ve never readThe Spirit, it is absolutely worth seeking out. The movi...
While children’s books are, on the whole, often scorned by the literary world as not altogether serious, perhaps no format is treated with the same dismissiveness as picture books. Even board books are respected at the very least as convenient chew toys, and chapter books look enough like ...
Scholars illustrate the quantity-quality tradeoff by the resource dilution hypothesis (e.g.,55. They suggest that the arrival of newborns dilute a family's financial resources. However, Lao and Dong3pointed out that some resources can be shared (such as books). Although Lao and Dong3admited ...
These cards and books point to an uncomfortable and generally unacknowledged fact: what contributes to a parent's happiness may detract from a child's happiness. All too often the adult quest for freedom, independence, and choice in family relationships conflicts with a child's developmental ...
Themes: Africa, Nigeria, Family, Traditions, Economics, Class, Poverty, Vacations Publisher’s Synopsis: From acclaimed Nigerian storyteller Atinuke, the first in a series of chapter books setin contemporary West Africa introduces a little girl who has enchanted young readers. ...