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edition:Paperback
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category: Social Science
published: Nov 1994
ISBN:9780929005645
publisher: Second Story Press

Kid Culture

by Kathleen McDonnell

tagged: popular culture, media studies, children's studies
Description

With clarity and humour, McDonnell discusses why pop culture is an irresistible lure to kids and why it binds them together in a subculture of their own.

About the Author
Kathleen McDonnell is an award-winning author and playwright of adult and children’s literature, including The Notherland Journeys series – The Nordlings, The Shining World, and The Songweavers – and Honey, We Lost the Kids. Born in Chicago, Kathleen lives in Toronto with her family.
Editorial Reviews

… entertaining, informative and intellectually challenging.

— The Canadian Forum

This book offers refreshing insights into the things that kids like, and why they like them.

— Today's Parent

The book is often engaging and provocative and the prose sparkles.

— Our Schools/Our Selves

Kid Culture blows a very fresh breeze through our uptight assumptions about all the harm pop culture is doing to our kids.

— The Globe and Mail

Reading this book will take parents a big step closer to bridging the generation gap. That can only bring families closer together.

— The Muskoka Advance

It’s provocative and relevant.

— The Daily News
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