The original, best-selling interdisciplinary composition text, Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum, Ninth Edition, teaches students of all majors and interests to communicate effectively. This text provides students with the opportunity to practice the essential college-level writing skills of summary, critique, synthesis, and analysis. An exciting new chapter on advertising supports the current need for skills in analyzing visual arguments.

"Offers an introduction to social-emotional literacy, followed by activities related to emotions such as empathy, friendship, grief and self-esteem, aiming to embed this literacy training into daily school and home activities to increase children's chances of future success."

"The chapters proffer new insights into the strong relationship between children's books for young children and emergent literacy, drawing on current research in children's literature research, visual literacy, cognitive psychology, language acquisition, picture theory and pedagogy."

2019 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title and shortlisted for the ESSE book awards 2020. "Asking what it means to return to familiar works by well-known authors such as Lewis Carroll, C. S. Lewis and Enid Blyton, as well as popular and ephemeral material not often considered as part of the canon, Alison Waller develops a poetics of rereading and presents a new model for understanding lifelong reading."

Until recently, scholars believed that African American children's literature did not exist before 1900. Now, Who Writes for Black Children? opens the door to a rich archive of largely overlooked literature read by black children. This volume's combination of analytic essays, bibliographic materials, and primary texts offers alternative histories for early African American literary studies and children's literature studies. From poetry written by a slave for a plantation school to joyful "death biographies" of African Americans in the antebellum North to literature penned by African American children themselves." - From the publisher's description.

"Children's Literature is an exhilarating quest across centuries, continents, and genres to discover how, and why, we first fall in love with the written word." --From the publisher's description.

" This book offers a state of the subject survey of English language children's literature from the seventeenth century to the present. With discussions ranging from eighteenth century moral tales to modern fantasies by J. K. Rowling and Philip Pullman, it illuminates acknowledged classics and many more neglected works. "

"The posters reflect the development and growth of the publishing industry. In 1919, books for children were a marginal part of publishing; the increased awareness of the importance of books, supported and encouraged by the Children's Book Council, has led, in part, to today's vital and independent children's book industry."

" Marcus delivers a provocative look at the fierce turf wars fought among pioneering editors, progressive educators, and librarians throughout the twentieth century. His story of the emergence, growth, and impact of the major publishing houses gains dramatic depth (and occasional dish) through the author's pathfinding research and in-depth interviews with dozens of editors, artists, and other key publishing figures whose careers go back to the 1930s."