Series in Childrens Studies
Books in Childrens Studies
Diary of a Soccer Star
Marcus is a math whiz who is not good at sport. His dad is a self-help author who thinks Marcus can achieve anything he sets his mind to. with hilarious results.
Diary of a Soccer Star
Marcus is a math whiz who is not good at sport. His dad is a self-help author who thinks Marcus can achieve anything he sets his mind to. with hilarious results.
Little Treasures
"Mummy, why don't you get a bra for your bottom?" "No, Granny, don't go to one of those drastic surgeons!" "In the Bible, Joseph was a carpet-fitter." "You're nearly old enough to be dead, aren't you, Grandma?""Mummy, why are there more idiots on the road when Daddy's driving?" "I need plenty of talc because I perforate a lot." "When I came downstairs for a drink of water late last night, Mummy and Daddy were sunbathing in front of the living room fire." Children are delightful and appealing 'little treasures', but because they are also innately honest and direct, they can also make you smile or cringe with embarrassment with the things they say or ask. "Little Treasures" is bestselling author Gervase Phinn's third collection of children's favorite sayings, amusing remarks or impossible-to-answer questions.
Queer Childhoods
Explores how the institutional management of children’s sexualities in boarding schools affected children’s future social, political, and economic opportunities Tracing the US’s investment in disciplining minoritarian sexualities since the late nineteenth century, Mary Zaborskis focuses on a ubiquitous but understudied figure: the queer child. Queer Childhoods examines the lived and literary experiences of children who attended reform schools, schools for the blind, African American industrial schools, and Native American boarding schools. In mapping the institutional terrain of queer childhoods in educational settings of the late nineteenth- and twentieth-century, the book offers an original archive of children’s sexual and embodied experiences. Zaborskis argues that these boarding schools—designed to segregate racialized, criminalized, and disabled children from mainstream culture—produced new forms of childhood. These childhoods have secured American futures in which institutionalized children (and the adults they become) have not been considered full-fledged citizens or participants. By locating this queerness in state archives and institutions, Queer Childhoods exposes a queer social history entangled with genocide, eugenics, and racialized violence.
The American Man at Age 10
He is old enough to begin imagining that he will someday get married, but at ten he is still convinced that the best thing about being married will be that he will be allowed to sleep in his clothes. His father once observed that living with Colin was like living with a Martian who had done some reading on American culture. As it happens, Colin is not especially sad or worried about the prospect of growing up, although he sometimes frets over whether he should be called a kid or a grown-up; he has settled on the word kid-up. In her classic 1992 Esquire cover story, The American Man at Age Ten , bestselling author Susan Orlean takes readers inside the mind of an ordinary 10-year-old boy and attempts to see the world the way he sees it: short on girls but full of pizza, candy, and Nintendo—and shot through with the fleeting magic of childhood. The American Man at Age Ten was originally published in Esquire , December 1992. Cover design by Adil Dara.