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		<title>International Awards: Who’s Being Recognized</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Clift</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Barbara C. Thompson Book, Indiana University Southeast Recently the American Library Association gave out its awards for books for Youth and Young Adults at its Mid-Winter Convention in Dallas, TX. In the age of Twitter and other social networks, those of us not able to be in Dallas were able to participate in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cambodian Children’s Literature:  “Rising from the Ashes&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://wowlit.org/blog/2012/01/23/cambodian-childrens-literature-rising-from-the-ashes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Clift</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Yuri Wellington, Ph.D.; Executive Director, Teach Cambodia, Inc.; Professor and Director, Cambodia International Pedagogical Institute I recently read an article that described Cambodia’s literary traditions as “rising from the ashes.” In a country where nearly every author, teacher and intellectual was killed or driven out, literary traditions and genres are literally being recreated. Thus, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cambodia:  Children’s Literature?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Clift</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Yuri Wellington, Ph.D.; Executive Director, Teach Cambodia, Inc.; Professor and Director, Cambodia International Pedagogical Institute “Cambodian Children’s Literature.” That’s the topic of my series for January, but what does it mean, exactly?  It could mean a number of things:  Children’s books written and published in the USA and western world about Cambodia – or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giving New Life to the Classics:</title>
		<link>http://wowlit.org/blog/2011/12/26/giving-new-life-to-the-classics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 07:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Clift</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Connecting Themes, Characters, and Critical Issues across the Global Community by Janelle Mathis, University of North Texas, Denton, TX While I taught secondary English at both middle and high school levels during my early years of teaching, I soon focused more so on the middle school grades, and, in later graduate work with literature, elementary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Secondary Curriculum: Adolescent &amp; Young Adult Novels Add  . . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Clift</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Janelle Mathis, University of North Texas, Denton, TX Those who are familiar with the vast range of contemporary novels published today are aware of the diversity of topics, characters, and events that make these books significant and appealing to readers. However, as with the realm of picture books, many readers, adolescents and young adults, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Picture Books in the Secondary Classroom:  Personal Connections, Creative Engagements, Critical Responses</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Clift</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Janelle Mathis, University of North Texas, Denton, TX Picture books have been defined over the past few decades with great integrity and attention to the complex interaction that occurs for the reader through the visual aspects of such books—text, illustrations, total design; a commercial product; a social, cultural, historical document (Bader, 1976). Still, when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They&#8217;re Not Just for Kids Anymore</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Clift</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Janelle Mathis, University of North Texas, Denton, TX At the beginning of each semester, many teacher educators are faced with the challenge of inviting secondary preservice teachers, as well as teachers already in classrooms, into the realization that picture books are not just for young readers and that many chapter books written for young [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hesitations About Using Native Language in a Children&#8217;s Book</title>
		<link>http://wowlit.org/blog/2011/11/28/hesitations-aboutnusing-native-language-in-a-childrens-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Clift</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Monique Storie, University of Guam Question: When is it okay to use a native language in a children’s book? This question has been sitting at the back of my mind for some time now. For about fifteen years, I have been working with a group who are passionate about preserving and promoting the indigenous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Emergence of “Fantastic” in Chamorro Literature</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 07:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Clift</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Monique Storie, University of Guam During a discussion on multicultural children’s literature about a decade ago, a comment about modern fantasy shaped the way I watched the growth of Chamorro children’s literature. The comment was that modern fantasy was one of the more challenging genres to write authentically because the author’s need to suspend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Idea of Simplicity in Chamorro Children’s Literature</title>
		<link>http://wowlit.org/blog/2011/11/14/the-idea-of-simplicity-in-chamorro-children%e2%80%99s-literature/</link>
		<comments>http://wowlit.org/blog/2011/11/14/the-idea-of-simplicity-in-chamorro-children%e2%80%99s-literature/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Clift</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Monique Storie, University of Guam One of the themes that intrigued me when I was doing my dissertation on Chamorro literature was the idea of simplicity that emerged from the teachers’ comments. Anthropological research reveals Chamorros have a complex network of reciprocal arrangements that binds the community together (Thompson, 1969, de Valle, 1978). My [...]]]></description>
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