Kathleen McDonnell

A mind-bending, straight talking approach to understanding the challenges of parenting and child rearing today. Deals with the impact of modern media on children.

Re-thinking Childhood in the Multimedia Age

Honey We Lost the Kids

During the religious crusades that pit Muslim against Christian against Jew, a young shepherd has a vision that prompts him to gather children of all faiths and lead them on a crusade for peace.

Year of the Journey

1212

For use in schools and libraries only. During the religious crusades that pit Muslim against Christian against Jew, a young shepherd has a vision that prompts him to gather children of all faiths and lead them on a crusade for peace.

1212: Year of the Journey

In a world where thousands are dying over matters of religion, where do you go? What do you believe? Who do you put your own faith in? These questions, so relevent to growing up now, are also questions faced by young people hundreds of years ago as ththey saw their cities and towns destroyed by the Christian Crusades. Based on a true story of a peaceful crusade in 1212 led by children, this book traces the lives of three multifaith characters as they try to find answers to these (unfortunately) persistent questions. Award-winning author Kathleen McDonnell vividly draws a world both dramatically different and remarkably similar to our own. An ideal pick for curriculum links to social studies, history, philosophy and religion.

After Peggy forgets the imaginery realm of Notherland and its inhabitants, Mi the Nordling tries to find the Songweavers for help in restoring the lost world, but Mi realizes that her efforts are futile if Peggy doesn't take up her role again as Creator.

The Songweavers

Peggy must stop an evil force from destroying Notherland, the fantasy world where she finds herself reunited with the fairies called Nordlings.

The Nordlings

"Honey, we lost the kids - the lament of many parents in the 21st century." "Frantic boomers, unable to figure out what they have done wrong, ask "Why can't the kids be like we were?" and particularly "What can we do to change things?" "Not much," responds prize-winning author Kathleen McDonnell in her funny, eye-opening report from the front lines of the revolution in modern childhood. She sympathizes with parents and experts who believe that kids today are growing up too quickly, robbed of childhood by a toxic combination of TV, films, video games and the Internet." "Yet "We can't go back to a time when growing up happened in well-defined stages," McDonnell argues. It's a different world, and the old rules simply don't apply." "Honey, We Lost the Kids is a mind-bending, straight-talking approach to understanding the challenges of parenting and child rearing today."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Honey, We Lost the Kids

Discusses the ethical and political implications of abortion, examines the arguments of the anti-abortion movement, and examines issues in the control of human reproduction

A Feminist Re-examines Abortion

Not an Easy Choice

In September 1731, a feral child emerged from the woods in the Champagne region of France. Clothed in animal skins, with matted, unkempt hair, and wielding a small club, she ran like a hare, climbed trees like a cat, and ate leaves and raw meat. But who was Memmie LeBlanc? Where had she come from? How had she survived on her own in the wild? From the very first, mystery and controversy swirled around her and it still rages, as playwright Kathleen McDonnell discovers nearly three centuries later, when she begins researching the Wild Girl for a play. On a journey from the vineyards of France, to a Native-run casino in the American heartland of Iowa, and back to the catacombs of Paris, McDonnell begins to feel she’s living in a detective novel with bizarre, comic twists, startling revelations, and a colorful cast of characters; a librarian, a small-town mayor, a champagne vigneron, a surgeon-turned-amateur-historian, an Australian journalist, a feminist professor—a group spanning three continents. Driven by a strong sense of kinship with the tragic Memmie LeBlanc—especially their shared love of cold-water swimming–McDonnell works for years writing an honor-winning historical play, but comes to realize there is another story begging to be told, involving academic rivalries, disappearing websites, small-town politics, and dark, brutal Canadian history. Swim Home is the fascinating result.

Searching for the Wild Girl of Champagne

Swim Home

What is it about freezing cold water that draws people in? Throughout history, humans have gravitated to cold water swimming and celebrated its healing properties, calling it the secret to good health and serenity. Today, cold water swimmers gather in groups from Galway to Georgian Bay to jump into frigid waters for fun, competition, and even as a form of activism and protest. Kathleen McDonnell started swimming in Lake Ontario, infamous for its chilly depths, because it was close to home. As time went on she began to rely on a daily dip, even breaking through winter ice to raise her spirits and refresh her body. In this wide-ranging memoir, McDonnell shares her love of cold water swimming and the lessons she has learned from a slow and steady commitment to the waves.

Notes on Swimming, Aging, and Finishing Last

Growing Old, Going Cold

Peggy is reunited with her friends from Notherland, the imaginary world of her childhood, as they work together to find the spirit-child Mi.

The Shining World

The true story of Emily Eaton. Born with severe cerebral palsy, Emily and her family had to fight for her right to go to school with non-disabled children in a regular classroom. Their fight, which began at a time when children with CP were segregated, was groundbreaking. Unwilling to take no for an answer, Emily's fight would take her all the way to the Supreme Court. Eventually victorious, Emily's story makes her an amazing role model for children everywhere - whether they are living with a disability or not.

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