Lucy Bell

Kids are on a mission to make our Earth a better, safer, happier place, and you can join in! Every day, we see a problem we would like to fix. A piece of rubbish in a green, grassy park. Plastic water bottles buried in the sand at the beach. A garbage bin overflowing onto the street. A skinny, stray dog. A homeless person on a cold day. These problems seem impossible for one person to change. But we can fix them, if we each do our part - one step at a time. This practical guide is designed to empower kids to make changes in their lives to help make a difference in the world. Filled with information, ideas and activities, and interspersed with features on amazing children around the world, this book shows kids how to: Avoid single-use plastics; Throw a plastic-free party; Make a compost bin and reduce waste; Start a herb garden; Grow bee-friendly flowers; Learn about where their food comes from; Be kinder to others, share and donate. Kids are on a mission to make our earth a better, safer, happier place. And anyone can join in.

The Kids' Guide to a Better Planet

You Can Change the World

Every day, we see a problem we would like to fix. A piece of rubbish in a green, grassy park. Plastic water bottles buried in the sand at the beach. A garbage bin overflowing onto the street. A skinny, stray dog. A homeless person on a cold day.These problems seem impossible for one person to change. But we can fix them, if we each do our part - one step at a time. This practical guide is designed to empower kids to make changes in their lives to help make a difference in the world. Filled with information, ideas and activities, and interspersed with features on amazing children around the world, this book shows kids how to: Avoid single-use plastics Throw a plastic-free party Make a compost bin and reduce waste Start a herb garden Grow bee-friendly flowers Learn about where their food comes from Be kinder to others, share and donate Kids are on a mission to make our earth a better, safer, happier place. And anyone can join in.

The Latin American short story has often been viewed in terms of its relation to orality, tradition and myth. But this desire to celebrate the difference of Latin American culture unwittingly contributes to its exoticization, failing to do justice to its richness, complexity and contemporaneity. By re-reading and re-viewing the short stories of Juan Rulfo, Julio Cortazar and Augusto Monterroso, Bell reveals the hybridity of this genre. It is at once rooted in traditional narrative and fragmented by modern experience; its residual qualities are revived through emergent forms. Crucially, its oral and mythical characteristics are compounded with the formal traits of modern, emerging media: photography, cinema, telephony, journalism, and cartoon art.

Fragmentation, Hybridity and Intermediality

The Latin American Short Story at its Limits

Patrick O'Hare

Alex Ungprateeb Flynn

2023 LASA Visual Culture Studies Section Book Prize, Latin American Studies Association (LASA) The first comprehensive study of cartonera, a vibrant publishing phenomenon born in Latin America. A publishing phenomenon and artistic project, cartonera was born in the wake of Argentina’s 2001 economic crisis. Infused with a rebellious spirit, it has exploded in popularity, with hundreds of publishers across Latin America and Europe making colorful, low-cost books out of cardboard salvaged from the street. Taking Form, Making Worlds is the first comprehensive study of cartonera. Drawing on interdisciplinary research conducted across Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina, the authors show how this hands-on practice has fostered a politically engaged network of writers, artists, and readers. More than a social movement, cartonera uses texts, workshops, encounters, and exhibitions to foster community and engagement through open-ended forms that are at once artistic and social. For various groups including waste-pickers, Indigenous communities, rural children, and imprisoned women, cartonera provides a platform for unique stories and sparks collaborations that bring the walls of the “lettered city” tumbling down. In contexts of stigma and exclusion, cartonera collectives give form to a decolonial aesthetics of resistance, making possible a space of creative experimentation through which plural worlds can be brought to life.

Cartonera Publishers in Latin America

Taking Form, Making Worlds

Change and growth can be challenging, but this practical guide to optimism is full of information and advice to help--highlighting kids around the world who are doing good for themselves and others. From the author of You Can Change the World comes a book of tips and tricks for kids to help them see the glass half full and live life with a positive outlook. Addressing topics such as mindfulness, meditation, gratitude, goals, and more, Lucy Bell delivers another richly illustrated book full of practical ways to: Cook delicious food to power your brain Decorate your room and create nice living spaces Get outdoors and have fun Channel your favorite animals through yoga Start a meditation practice Find out what your interests are Speak positively about yourself and others Start growing plants, reading, writing, and drawing Throughout the book, you'll also find stories of children across the globe who are embracing optimism during times of uncertainty, and you'll learn how to do the same! Along with tips, tricks, and stories, the book contains STEM activities, recipes, ways to do good in your community, and more.

The Kids' Guide to Optimism

You Can Live on the Bright Side

Do your ears hang low? Do they wobble to and fro? These bunnies will know! This classic childhood song paired with fun illustrations is sure to have you and your little one singing and laughing along during story time!

Do Your Ears Hang Low?

You Can Live on the Bright Side: the Kid's Guide to Optimism

A scary storm sends Rufus running for cover. Can a prayer help him overcome his fear? Frolic picture books help young children solve common childhood challenges with biblical solutions, and won a 2016 Moonbeam Children's Book Award for Best Picture Book Series.

A Book about Being Brave

Rufus and the Scary Storm

Having done her Civic Duty, our not-so-adventurous Adeline believes she is free to return to the quiet life of sorting books. As one would expect, however, fate has other designs for her. A tale of ghosts, murder, and an ancient, controversial manuscript, manages to reach Adeline's ears. A discovery like this could bring her great esteem! Unable to resist, Adeline goes against her better nature and sets out to retrieve the documents. She will brave terrifying tempests, superstitious towns, and a crazy conspiracy all intent on keeping what is held within those texts a secret. Even if it means turning Adeline into a ghost as well!

Adeline in an Adventure with Ghosts

Hickory dickory dock. This is one crazy clock! And we mean it! Read along with this catchy rhyme to meet all of the clock's animal friends at all hours of the day with charming illustrations on every page. You'll lose track of time with this Re-Versed Rhyme!

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