***Small, everyday actions can make a BIG difference*** We all want to make the world a fairer place, but it can feel overwhelming. In this book, changemakers, sisters and founders of anti-racism platform Everyday Racism, Natalie and Naomi Evans, help young readers understand and deal with the issues they see, hear about and face every day. From racism and sexism to homophobia and ableism, this handbook offers children age-appropriate information, as well as achievable everyday actions they can do to help create change. Tips for practising positive everyday mindsets and self-care make this a go-to book for feeling informed, positive and motivated too. Join Natalie and Naomi on their journey to creating sustainable change, one small step at a time. 'My 11 year old loves this book.' - Amazon reviewer 'Should be part of the curriculum and teacher training.' - Amazon reviewer
Thrust into the limelight in 2004 as the youngest ever winner of Australian Idol, Casey Donovan has experienced the best and worst that winning a reality television show can offer.Thrust into the limelight in 2004 as the youngest ever winner of Australian Idol, Casey Donovan has experienced the best and worst that winning a reality television show can offer. The success of her debut album and landing the boyfriend she always wanted gave way to media coverage of her weight, family struggles, and being dropped by her record label. But battling personal demons in a very public arena, Casey fought back. Receiving critical acclaim for her roles in stage shows The Sapphires and The Flowerchildren The Mamas and Papas Story. Caseys career has powered from strength to strength. She is now regarded as one of Australias most acclaimed Indigenous entertainers with a career spanning music, stage and screen. In this intensely personal account of the last 10 years, Casey opens up about her family life, her passion for music, and her gratitude to those that continue to believe in her. And for the first time, she tells the painful truth behind her first love, a relationship which consumed every aspect of her life, ruining friendships, family and almost her career.
Making the "America of Art" demonstrates that beginning in the 1850s, women writers challenged the terms of the Scottish Common Sense philosophy, which had made artistic endeavors acceptable in the new Republic by subordinating aesthetic motivation to moral and educational goals. Harriet Beecher Stowe and Augusta Jane Evans drew on Ruskin to argue for the creation of a religiously based national aesthetic. In the postbellum years Louisa May Alcott, Rebecca Harding Davis, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and Constance Fenimore Woolson continued the process in a series of writings that revolved around three central areas of concern: the place of the popular in the realm of high art; the role of the genius; and the legacy of the Civil War." "Sofer significantly revises the history of 19th-century American women's authorship by detailing the gradual process that produced women writers wholly identified with literary high culture at the century's end."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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