scholarly journals Susanna Moodie: Roughing It in the Bush by C. Shields and P. Crowe

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Merrill Distad
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Pulitzer Prize ◽  
Upper Canada ◽  
Book Art ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Carol Shields ◽  
Susanna Moodie ◽  
Children And Young Adults

Shields, Carol and Patrick Crowe. Susanna Moodie: Roughing It in the Bush, adaptation by Willow Dawson, illustrated by Selena Goulding. Second Story Press, 2016.The long genesis of this graphic novel began more than two decades ago, when Governor General’s and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carol Shields began collaborating with Patrick Crowe to produce a screenplay based on Susanna Moodie’s classic account of pioneer life in early Victorian Upper Canada. Shields’ death in 2003 led Crowe to abandon the project, only to revive it a decade later in this illustrated format. Story editor Willow Dawson has extracted the most significant episodes from the screenplay, and Selena Goulding has provided running illustrations that fairly reflect the landscapes, buildings, home interiors, costumes, and technology of the period 1830–1867. Her style—not inappropriately—is reminiscent of the Classics Illustrated school of comic book art. This reviewer’s only criticism is the very occasional failure of the illustrations to accurately depict things referenced in the text.Appearing at a time when Canada celebrates 150 years of nationhood, this handsome production serves to provide older children and young adults with an appreciation of the hardships overcome by Canada’s pioneering women, such as Moodie, and her sister and fellow immigrant Catherine Parr Traill, whose very survival sometimes depended upon aid from their First Nations neighbours. As a succinct précis of Moodie’s classic memoir, it may even stimulate interest in reading the longer, original text. The Introduction provided by CanLit doyenne Margaret Atwood, alongside the content attributable to Carol Shields, render the book suitable not only for public and school libraries, but also for academic libraries and all serious collectors of those authors.Highly Recommended: 4 out of 4 starsReviewer: Merrill DistadHistorian and author Merrill Distad enjoyed a four-decade career building libraries and library collections.

scholarly journals Developing a Co-Creative Methodology of Narrative Artwork Production for the BEACONING Platform Metagame.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jackie Calderwood ◽  
Rachael Till ◽  
Vytautas Vasiliauskas
Keyword(s):  
Comic Book ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Book Art ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
Educational Barriers ◽  
Interactive Narratives ◽  
Learning Platform ◽  
Process Creation ◽  
Gamified Learning ◽  
Media Learning

This paper presents an emergent co-creative methodology for the conception, making and sharing of narrative artwork for a gamified learning platform. Drawing on cinema, the graphic novel, and comic book art, two unusual characters were developed by Student Activators working with researchers at the Disruptive Media Learning Lab, Coventry University. The creative process began by using Clean Language and Clean Space to bring the artists’ character sketches to life, and developed into a series of basic, linear and interactive narratives with original working practices. Extending this collaboration, the paper is co-authored with the two students involved. The authors reflect from their different perspectives on the Collaborative process, creation of narrative artwork and building of a series of metagames for the BEACONING platform ‘Breaking Educational Barriers with Contextualised Pervasive and Gameful Learning’, co-funded by Horizon 2020 programme of the European Union.

Ghosts, murder and mutation: The portrayal of pandemics in children’s and YA fiction

Book 2 0 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Webb
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Historical Fiction ◽  
Picture Book ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Current Generation ◽  
Nuclear Disaster ◽  
Ya Fiction ◽  
Spanish Flu ◽  
Children And Young Adults ◽  
The Common

The coronavirus pandemic has stimulated a number of texts, which are aimed at helping children to cope with situations alien to them. For example, the picture book Staying Home by Sally Nichols and Vivienne Schwarz (2020) deals with the conditions of lockdown and family isolation, whilst Piperpotamus by Annis Watts endeavours to explain COVID-19. This pandemic is not the only such event in history. The Black Death swept across Europe (1347–51) followed by the Spanish flu pandemic (1918–20). Both of these have stimulated historical fiction for older children and Young Adults and have done so by employing differing literary approaches. For instance, Cat Winters’ In the Shadow of Blackbirds (2013) incorporates a ghost story set against the contexts of séances and spirit photographers as the bereaved hope to gain comfort, whilst Charles Todd’s An Unmarked Grave (2012) is a murder mystery. Dystopian science fiction has also been employed to examine the equivalent circumstances of such pandemics. The plague in Gone (2008–14) by Michael Grant follows a nuclear disaster, which has produced a world where only those under fifteen have survived beneath a dome created by a young autistic child at the point of the explosion. Unforeseen forces have erupted resulting in mutation where individuals have supernatural powers taking them into a posthuman state. Their world is later blighted by plague and the children have to deal with remaking their lives and their society without the help of adults. This article will consider the various ways that such texts have approached these world-changing disasters and the common themes, which emerge to give our current generation of children ways of thinking about their present and their future.

scholarly journals Trans-Colonial Collaboration and Slave Narrative: Mary Prince Revisited

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-77
Author(s):  
Michelle Gadpaille
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Slave Narrative ◽  
Upper Canada ◽  
Standard Account ◽  
Slave Emancipation ◽  
Mary Prince ◽  
Susanna Moodie ◽  
History Of ◽  
Multiple Accounts

In 1831 in London, two formidable women met: Mary Prince, an ex-slave from Bermuda, who had crossed the Atlantic to a qualified freedom, and Susanna Strickland, an English writer. The narrative that emerged from this meeting was The History of Mary Prince, which played a role in the fight for slave emancipation in the British Empire. Prince disappeared once the battle was won, while Strickland emigrated to Upper Canada and, as Susanna Moodie, became an often quoted 19th century Canadian writer. Prince dictated, Strickland copied, and the whole was lightly edited by Thomas Pringle, the anti-slavery publisher at whose house the meeting took place.This is the standard account. In contesting this version, the paper aims to reinstate Moodie as co-creator of the collaborative Mary Prince text by considering multiple accounts of the meeting with Prince and to place the work in the context of Moodie’s pre- and post-emigration oeuvre on both sides of the Atlantic.

LUNG COMPLIANCE AND LUNG VOLUME MEASURED CONCURRENTLY IN NORMAL FULL-TERM AND PREMATURE INFANTS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1964 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 525-532
Author(s):  
Josephine S. Chu ◽  
Peter Dawson ◽  
Marshall Klaus ◽  
Avron Y. Sweet
Keyword(s):  
Premature Infants ◽  
Distress Syndrome ◽  
Lung Compliance ◽  
Full Term ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Lung Weight ◽  
Term Infants ◽  
Tissue Properties ◽  
Residual Capacity ◽  
Children And Young Adults

Lung compliance and functional residual capacity have been measured simultaneously, using a body plethysmograph, in 35 full-term and 29 premature infants. The results suggest the following conclusions: 1. Lung compliance increases in the early hours of life, while no significant change of FRC is demonstrated. This may reflect a true alteration of lung tissue properties. 2. Specific lung compliance in full-term infants older than 24 hours of age is similar to that of older children and young adults. 3. Premature infants have a larger FRC/kg of body weight than full-term infants, but, when lung weight is used as the basis for comparison, the FRC in infants of all weights is similar. 4. In evaluating infants with the respiratory distress syndrome, one should be aware of the small specific lung compliance noted in full-term infants younger than 3 hours of age.

COMMITTEE ON CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1960 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 331-332
Author(s):  
◽  
Lewis L. Coriell ◽  
John H. Dent ◽  
Horace L. Hodes ◽  
C. Henry Kempe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Antibody Response ◽  
Preliminary Evidence ◽  
Considerable Proportion ◽  
Inactivated Vaccine ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Poliomyelitis Vaccine ◽  
Epidemic Area ◽  
Children And Young Adults ◽  
Children Under 5

Immunization with formaldehyde-inactivated vaccine is recommended for all children and young adults. The course recommended earlier was two 1-ml intramuscular injections (1 month apart) followed by a third 1-ml injection (after an interval of approximately 7 months). This is probably adequate for older children and adults. Preliminary evidence indicates that a considerable proportion of infants have a less than optimal or relatively short-lived antibody response when immunized in this fashion. Vaccination of infants should be started at about 1½ to 2 months of age. The Committee recommends that children under 5 years of age be given a series of three 1-mi injections (1 month apart) followed by a fourth injection (up to 8 months later) and then a fifth injection (at about 4 yearsof age). In the present state of knowledge, additional injections seem advisable as indicated in Table I. A recall injection should be given before traveling abroad or before entering an epidemic area. Preparations containing inactivated poliovirus vaccine combined with diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and pertussis bacilli are now available. Such quadruple preparations should be given according to the manufacturer's directions, in general adhering to the schedule presently used for DPT (see Table I). For reasons of safety and to avoid possible loss of antigenic potency, it is considered advisable for physicians not to improvise mixtures of combined diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus antigens and poliomyelitis vaccine. See table in the PDF file There are few contraindications to poliomyelitis vaccination. It may be performed safely at any time of the year, even when poliomyelitis is prevalent.

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