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Karam, Fares J.; Kersten-Parrish, Sara; Warren, Amber N.; Kibler, Amanda – Journal of Children's Literature, 2019
Research has shown that individuals resettled as refugees are represented as passive victims who are dependent on government aid, and are often associated with trauma (MacDonald, 2015; Shapiro & MacDonald, 2017). This should not undermine the traumatic and difficult experiences that people resettled as refugees undergo, but a focus on such…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Land Settlement, Refugees, Middle School Students
Sciurba, Katie; Jenkins, Jerry Rafiki – Journal of Children's Literature, 2019
The year 2019 marks the 25th anniversary of the publication of Eve Bunting's "Smoky Night" (Harcourt, 1994; illustrated by David Diaz). As a Caldecott medal winner, "Smoky Night" is the highest profile picturebook centered on an incident related to police brutality and the profiling of Black citizens--the Los Angeles riots,…
Descriptors: Novels, Awards, Childrens Literature, Picture Books
Hermann-Wilmarth, Jill M.; Ryan, Caitlin L. – Journal of Children's Literature, 2019
When it comes to being productive allies and co-conspirators with and for transgender people, the authors have been particularly drawn to "George" (Gino, 2015), perhaps the first mass-marketed, #OwnVoices novel with a young transgender protagonist, a White fourth-grade transgender girl named Melissa. This article investigates the…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Content Analysis, LGBTQ People, Sexual Identity
Parsons, Linda T.; Mikita, Clara – Journal of Children's Literature, 2019
The current state of homelessness in the United States, the barriers and challenges students who are homeless face, and the prevailing neoliberal construction of homelessness provide the situational context for this study and the discourse within which this analysis of nine children's novels was written. The authors initiated this study with the…
Descriptors: Barriers, Homeless People, Neoliberalism, Discourse Analysis
Reid, Stephanie F.; Serafini, Frank – Journal of Children's Literature, 2018
In this study, the authors explored a selection of middle-grade multimodal novels in order to push back against prior scholarship that tended to dismiss images in novels as mere decorations, visual reiterations of informational ready provided through written language (Godfrey, 2012). Inspired by the notion that the format of the middle-grade novel…
Descriptors: Novels, Adolescent Literature, Illustrations, Reading Material Selection
Kersten, Sara; Dallacqua, Ashley K. – Journal of Children's Literature, 2017
Graphic nonfiction is optimal for helping readers challenge the common tropes associated with nonfiction, yet the application of fictional aspects to nonfiction subject matter is uncommon, even in the graphic novel form (Porat, 2015). However, the three books this article focuses on, "One Dead Spy, El Deafo," and "Drowned…
Descriptors: Activism, Cartoons, Nonfiction, Childrens Literature
Panos, Alexandra – Journal of Children's Literature, 2017
Carl Hiaasen's "Flush" (2005) addresses one of the key issues of our time: environmental degradation. His story offers children opportunities to think about how to act and behave in the face of environmental challenges and serves as an argument against prioritizing capitalism over the environment and humanity. "Flush" positions…
Descriptors: Environment, Novels, Social Systems, Economic Factors
Connors, Sean P. – Journal of Children's Literature, 2015
When teachers work with students to construct a metalanguage that they can draw on to describe and analyze graphic novels, and then invite students to apply that metalanguage in the service of composing multimodal texts of their own, teachers broaden students' analytical frameworks. In the process of doing so, teachers empower students. In this…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Novels, Teaching Methods, Metalinguistics