Building upon scholarship examining representations of gendered characters in Caldecott
Medal-winning books, this contemporary content analysis offers a critical investigation of …

This paper investigates stories written by children and aims to reveal how children resist or
neutralise the social and cultural conditions in their writing. We draw on Archer's critical …

We examined the linguistic features of texts in twenty-nine picture books used in an early
English as a Foreign Language program in China. We used the software CLAN to …

Children's literature on the topic of breastfeeding is a niche form of media that has the
potential to present breastfeeding in a different light because of a difference in audience and …

Educators and families frequently use children's picture books to introduce young children to
unfamiliar experiences, including the start of school. In this study, we examine 52 US picture …

This study examined the difference in effectiveness between Adlerian Play Therapy and
content mastery services in increasing physical, social, and task attractiveness to students in …

Researchers have suggested that empowered parents may be more helpful successfully
transitioning children to formal school. The problem investigated in this basic qualitative …

This basic qualitative study aimed to understand how the results of the kindergarten
readiness assessments are used within the classroom for planning curriculum, connecting to …

Through a comprehensive analysis of a sample of 80 children's picture books, this study
highlights the importance of embedding language to describe anger experiences and …

The purpose of this multi-modal phenomenological study was to examine the lived
experiences of parents preparing their first child for kindergarten and to evaluate the sources …