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Abstract: This issue is dedicated to the theme of childhood and clothing. It is guest-edited by Hannah Field and Kiera Vaclavik, whose editorial follows this brief introduction.Since our last issue, we have farewelled Sally Pirie from the editorial team. We wish her all the best as she joins the editorial collective at Pedagogy, Culture and Society. Over the summer of 2024, we will farewell our Book Reviews Editor, Christina Fawcett. Christina will move into a new role as a member of the advisory board. Both Sally and Christina have served long and hard in their respective roles. However, one of the joys of working with them has been that they wear their stalwart status lightly, always joining in our editorial team ... Read More PubDate: 2024-08-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In 1972, Times women’s editor Moira Keenan (1933–72) selected the winner of the Dress of the Year award given by the Museum of Costume in Bath, United Kingdom.1 All previous choices for the award had been women’s clothes, beginning in 1963 with a Mary Quant dress in grey wool.2 For a number of reasons, 1972 was different. Keenan’s choice marked the first incorporation of masculine clothing. It was also the first multiple selection: she chose three outfits. But most importantly, for our purposes, 1972 was the first time children’s clothes were featured in Dress of the Year.Keenan’s regular column for the Times, “Growing Point,” focused on parenting and family life, and in an April 1972 story, she writes of being ... Read More PubDate: 2024-08-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Good Evening everybody—I am Eileen Brock And if you do not like my voice, I hope you’ll like my frock.Ten-year-old Eileen Brock (1915–2000) introduced herself with this line when she appeared as one of Madame Behenna’s Juvenile Jollities—a troupe of children who performed song-and-dance revues on the stages of East London in the 1920s.1 According to a local reporter, “This talented band of children (ranging in age from 4 to 13 years) kept an enthusiastic audience perfectly interested and enthralled for four hours. The programme comprised songs, dances, floral ballet, tableaux, recitations, and dialogues. Several of the little artistes made a change of dress no less than twenty times” (“Concert”). The children’s ... Read More PubDate: 2024-08-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: “A procession of glum little girls in hard straw hats—walking two-by-two, gloved hands linked, in a straggling crocodile. . . . That was yesterday.” So began a 1937 advisory article “When Your Daughter Goes to School” in the illustrated magazine Britannia and Eve. Its author, Joan Woollacombe, surveyed the “really modern schools” available to parents seeking “a liberal education for the child’s whole nature” (42–43, 108).1 Woollacombe’s opening vision for the outmoded school of yesteryear was sartorially centred. Children’s hard straw hats and gloved hands signalled the prim formality and regimentation, discomfort and conformity, made material in traditional girls’ school garments. As will be discussed, the ... Read More PubDate: 2024-08-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The actress, model, and superstar character Katy Keene was created by Bill Woggon in 1945. She first appeared as a secondary character in issue 5 of Wilbur Comics but soon had her own dedicated comic book series, Katy Keene (Robbins 393). Throughout its initial run, from 1949 to 1961, Katy also appeared in various spinoff titles and one-shot comics, including Katy Keene Glamour, Katy Keene Charm, Katy Keene Fashion Book, Katy Keene Spectacular, Katy Keene Annual, and Katy Keene Pin-Up Parade (393). Despite the proliferation of titles, the stories Katy appeared in were not especially varied, and there was no real sense of an ongoing or overarching story, nor any kind of back story such as one might expect based on ... Read More PubDate: 2024-08-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Maija Nygren empowers children to make their own clothes in multiple ways. At thoughtfully designed workshops run through her design lab Almaborealis, including workshops in schools, Maija teaches children how to sew and how to knit. These workshops grow out of her experience of the Finnish education system, where craft is an integral part of the curriculum. Through beautiful kits, Maija’s Convertibles concept also allows children to make their own clothes from knitted pattern pieces. Unlike earlier incarnations of parallel ideas, such as the UK-based company Clothkits, the finished product of these kits is not certain: children can sew the pieces together in different ways and disassemble (and reassemble) pieces ... Read More PubDate: 2024-08-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In “Children’s Environmental Literature: From Ecocriticism to Ecopedagogy,” Greta Gaard posed the question: “When we read, study, and teach children’s environmental literature, what effect do we want it to have on our children'” (332). This question guides my consideration of three Canadian picture books: West Coast Wild Babies by Deborah Hodge, illustrated by Karen Ruczuh; The Great Grizzlies Go Home by Judy Hilgemann, and The Three Brothers by Marie-Louise Gay. Gaard’s question also prompts discussion of how high-quality, engaging children’s literature teaches young readers about the importance of environmental conservation while fostering their connection with nature and broadening their eco-literacy.Hodge’s ... Read More PubDate: 2024-08-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: [I]n good picture books, the words and pictures have to be true partners. The story may exist without its pictures, but it’s thin, incomplete, unsatisfying. It’s just as true for the pictures . . . the best picture books are a good marriage of pictures and story.No matter the home country of the author or the setting in or about which they write, a good and memorable picture book often strikes the perfect balance between verbal and pictorial media. One complements the other, opening doors to new interpretations, first by the illustrator who, like a translator, “interpret[s] and translate[s] the written language into [their] own personal visual language” (Amante 27). Then, the child themself, or aided by a literacy ... Read More PubDate: 2024-08-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: What does it mean to be a young person participating in the world at present' This is a pressing inquiry for many, particularly in the wake of lockdowns and isolation measures in numerous countries worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic. There is a pronounced need for research which seeks to answer questions concerning the access, privilege, inequality, and participation afforded to youth in the first half of the twenty-first century. It is to this need that the anthology Young People’s Participation: Revisiting Youth and Inequalities in Europe speaks.The book is edited by Maria Bruselius-Jensen, Ilaria Pitti, and E. Kay M. Tisdall, each of whom occupies a position of significance within the fields of youth ... Read More PubDate: 2024-08-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Abigail Hackett’s book More-Than-Human-Literacies in Early Childhood decentres the traditional comprehension of what constitutes literacy. She draws on snippets from her ethnographic research, immersing herself in children’s everyday experiences with their surroundings, to challenge and transform existing research practices that promote a narrow notion of literacy steeped in white, Europeanized capitalist ideologies that thoroughly favour mastery, fluency, and problem-solving. Hackett asserts that demoting other-than-Europeanized forms of literacies as non-literacies creates hierarchical binaries that close off possibilities of other ways of seeing, relating, and eventually transforming research in understanding ... Read More PubDate: 2024-08-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Refugees are defined by their statelessness and lack of citizenship, and this lack of political power can reduce refugees to inappropriate and dehumanizing representation in mainstream media and literature. As Peter Nyers points out, “the qualities of visibility, agency, and rational speech of the citizen-subject are conspicuously absent in the conventional representations of refugees that cast them as invisible, speechless, and, above all, non-political” (3). Thus, refugee literature becomes a space for understanding the status quo of refugee migrations. A counter to these reductive texts appears in children’s literature, as the representation of refugee child’s journey in children’s literature invokes “empathetic ... Read More PubDate: 2024-08-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Open at the Close: Literary Essays on Harry Potter presents new literary analyses of the Harry Potter texts in a valuable and lively collection of papers examining various aspects of the novels. The collection is a welcome addition to work done by scholars like Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, whose The Dark Fantastic included Harry Potter in its theorization and call for the decolonization of speculative fiction; Tison Pugh, who considered the role of Dumbledore in the novels through the lens of queer theory (Innocence) and who, together with David L. Wallace, explored Harry Potter’s debt to the school story tradition (“Heteronormative Heroism”; “A Postscript”); Karen Westman, whose work has been fundamental in theorizing ... Read More PubDate: 2024-08-03T00:00:00-05:00
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