Children are citizens with autonomy and rights identified by international agencies and United Nations conventions, but these rights are not readily enforceable. Some of the worst levels of child poverty and poor health in the OECD, as well as exceptionally high child suicide rates, exist in Aotearoa New Zealand today. More than a quarter of children are experiencing a childhood of hardship and deprivation in a context of high levels of inequality. Maori children face particular challenges...

Recent authoritative evidence suggests that an estimated 200 million children under five fail to achieve their developmental potential due to factors including poor health and nutrition and the lack of stable high quality care. A significant number of the world’s children today lack the basic rights to health, development and protection.In light of such statistics, early childhood services for young children have expanded around the world. The SAGE Handbook of Early Childho...

A fun, rhyming book about friendship and kindness, featuring a transport truck trying to get to its destination—despite all the other traffic on the road, for fans of Little Blue Truck.I'm a big rig, the biggest on the road,and I'm heading to the Island with a big, important loadGet out of the way! The biggest and fastest truck on the road has places to be. Big Rig barrells down the highway, zooming past a pickup truck, rusty tow truck, and ...

David Tennant stars in this BBC Radio adaptation of John Osborne's provocative 1956 play about the original 'angry young man', Jimmy Porter.John Osborne's 'kitchen sink' drama Look Back in Anger sparked a generation of 'angry young men' and led to the resurgence of realism in theatre. Reprising his stage role from 2005, David Tennant stars in this radio adaptation, which was produced to commemorate the play's 60th anniversary.Look Back in Anger...

Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities for all.While much progress in race relations has been made in recent years-including the election of Barack Obama as President of the United State-it's clear that our journey t...

In 1991, Jean-Luc Nancy's heart gave out. In one of the first such procedures in France, a stranger's heart was grafted into his body. Numerous complications followed, including more surgeries and lymphatic cancer. The procedure and illnesses he endured revealed to him, in a more visceral way than most of us ever experience, the strangeness of bodily existence itself and surviving the stranger within him.During this same period, Europe began closing its borders to those seeking ref...

Young adult historical fiction brings the past alive through stories of adventure, suspense, and mystery. The genre is both complex and controversial, encompassing novels that range from romance and fantasy to stark historical realism. The book examines the various approaches to young adult historical fiction and explores the issues that it has engendered.Part One focuses on the broader issues spawned by the genre itself, including its various subgenres - the line between fiction a...

Challenge is coming. Shani and Masud, the duo comprising the earth Elemental Sphynx, can feel it in the unusual tectonic shifts rattling the walls of their home in India, their refuge. This overwhelming sense of impending doom tells them it’s time to return to Egypt.After decades away, they are strangers in their homeland. And to each other. Somewhere along the way, the most critical piece of their combined power—their mental connection—weakened and snapped, leaving their power vul...

This title has received an Imprimatur and has been endorsed by the Catholic Education Service for the new REDEncourage students to engage with Catholic Religious Education at Key Stage 3 and enable them to understand, discern and respond to key concepts and ideas.This accessible Student Book has been written by experienced teachers and diocesan advisors to support the new Religious Education Directory (RED).- Easily deliver engaging lessons...

Patches loved being a police horse. Officer Mike came to the stable every day to take care of him and ride him through the city park on their daily route. They would meet families and talk with boys and girls about Officer Mike's job and Patches. The children always asked about the beautiful heart-shaped patch of hair on Patches' shoulder.One day, while Patches and Officer Mike were patrolling the park, there was trouble, and the two sprang into action to help a lady.They chased an...

Recent history—the very phrase seems like an oxymoron. Yet historians have been writing accounts of the recent past since printed history acquired a modern audience, and in the last several years interest in recent topics has grown exponentially. With subjects as diverse as Walmart and disco, and personalities as disparate as Chavez and Schlafly, books about the history of our own time have become arguably the most exciting and talked-about part of the discipline.Despite this rich ...

Current characters in children’s entertainment media illustrate a growing trend of representations that challenge or subvert traditional notions of gender and sexuality. From films to picture books to animated television series, children’s entertainment media around the world has consistently depicted stereotypically traditional gender roles and heterosexual relationships as the normal way that people act and engage with one another. Heroes, Heroines, and Everything in Between: Challenging...