Books with author Christine L. Wilson

Although it is a beautiful day outside, within the sun shining and birds singing, Sammy and Jakie are feeling sad. Their daddy has died, and they miss him very much. Mommy looks for a way to help her two boys feel better. Using balloons and markers, Sammy and Jakie write letters to send to their daddy in heaven. When they are done writing, they go outside to the backyard and let the balloons fly, going higher and higher toward heaven. Now whenever Sammy and Jakie feel sad, they know they can send their daddy letters and stay connected to him. Sometimes in life, unspeakable tragedies occur. It is especially difficult when these tragedies affect children's lives and their ability to be happy. This children's story tells the tale of how one seemingly simple activity changed the way a family coped with the loss of their loved one.

"I got my first job working in a toy store when I was 41 years old." So begins sociologist Christine Williams's description of her stint as a low-wage worker at two national toy store chains: one upscale shop and one big box outlet. In this provocative, perceptive, and lively book, studded with rich observations from the shop floor, Williams chronicles her experiences as a cashier, salesperson, and stocker and provides broad-ranging, often startling, insights into the social impact of shopping for toys. Taking a new look at what selling and buying for kids are all about, she illuminates the politics of how we shop, exposes the realities of low-wage retail work, and discovers how class, race, and gender manifest and reproduce themselves in our shopping-mall culture. Despite their differences, Williams finds that both toy stores perpetuate social inequality in a variety of ways. She observes that workers are often assigned to different tasks and functions on the basis of gender and race; that racial dynamics between black staff and white customers can play out in complex and intense ways; that unions can't protect workers from harassment from supervisors or demeaning customers even in the upscale toy store. And she discovers how lessons that adults teach to children about shopping can legitimize economic and social hierarchies. In the end, however, Inside Toyland is not an anticonsumer diatribe. Williams discusses specific changes in labor law and in the organization of the retail industry that can better promote social justice.

The Creative Kids You Draw Books series provides elementary school age children with the opportunity to apply imagination and artistic expression to their literary experience. Children will enjoy reading engaging stories with the added bonus of drawing pictures to bring the text to life. Each book a child illustrates becomes a treasured keepsake. Book 1, Olivia's Iguana, which is the first in an amusing trilogy about a sweet Yorkshire Terrier who dreams of owning a pet iguana, is sure to charm and delight young readers/artists.

The Creative Kids You Draw Books series provides elementary school age children with the opportunity to apply imagination and artistic expression to their literary experience. Children will enjoy reading engaging stories with the added bonus of drawing pictures to bring the text to life. Each book a child illustrates becomes a treasured keepsake. Book 2, Olivia's Iguana According to Iggy, which is the second book in an amusing trilogy about a sweet Yorkshire Terrier who dreams of owning a pet iguana, is sure to charm and delight young readers/artists.

The Creative Kids You Draw Books series provides elementary school age children with the opportunity to apply imagination and artistic expression to their literary experience. Children will enjoy reading engaging stories with the added bonus of drawing pictures to bring the text to life. Each book a child illustrates becomes a treasured keepsake. Book 3, Olivia's Iguana According to the Lizards, which is the third book in an amusing trilogy about a sweet Yorkshire Terrier who dreams of owning a pet iguana, is sure to charm and delight young readers/artists.

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