Richard Rich directs this animated children's sequel featuring the vocal talents of Elle Deets, Yuri Lowenthal and Joseph Medrano. When Odette (voice of Deets), the Swan Princess, is the target of an assassination attempt by the mysterious power known as the Forbidden Arts, she uses her special capabilities to deflect the attack, inadvertently causing a nearby house to catch fire. As a result, young Alise (Carly G. Fogelson) becomes an orphan and Odette takes her into her care. When Alise is kidnapped by scullions as part of another plot to unseat the Swan Princess, Odette and her friends set out on an adventure to rescue the girl.

In The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children's Picture Books, Jennifer Miller identifies an archive of over 150 English-language children's picture books that explicitly represent LGBTQ+ identities, expressions, and issues. This archive is then analyzed to explore the evolution of LGBTQ+ characters and content from the 1970s to the present. Miller describes dominant tropes that emerge in the field to analyze historical shifts in representational practices, which she suggests parallel larger sociocultural shifts in the visibility of LGBTQ+ identities. Additionally, Miller considers material constraints and possibilities affecting the production, distribution, and consumption of LGBTQ+ children's picture books from the 1970s to the present. This foundational work defines the field of LGBTQ+ children's picture books thoroughly, yet accessibly. In addition to laying the groundwork for further research, The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children's Picture Books presents a reading lens, critical optimism, used to analyze the transformative potential of LGBTQ+ children's picture books. Many texts remain attached to heteronormative family forms and raced and classed models of success. However, by considering what these books put into the world, as well as problematic aspects of the world reproduced within them, Miller argues that LGBTQ+ children's picture books are an essential world-making project and seek to usher in a transformed world as well as a significant historical archive that reflects material and representational shifts in dominant and subcultural understandings of gender and sexuality.

A study of the relationship between learning English as an additional language and the ways in which immigrant students are able to represent their identities at school. In high schools, how such students are heard by others may be just as important as how they speak. This text raises questions about language and identity in schools and should be of interest to researchers, teachers and students. It seeks to build a bridge between SLA and sociocultural approaches to discourse and identity.

This book is about the relationship between learning English as an additional language and the ways in which immigrant students are able to represent their identities at school. In high schools, how such students are heard by others may be just as important as how they speak.

A critical reality of contemporary education in a globalised world is the growing cultural, racial and linguistic diversity in schools and the issues involved in educating increasing numbers of students who are still learning the dominant language. This poses extraordinary challenges for second and foreign language teachers in many countries, where such students must engage with the mainstream curriculum in a new language. What do these increasingly plurilingual and multicultural classrooms look like? And how do language teachers address the challenges of such diverse classrooms? This book brings together a group of well-recognised language education scholars who present their research in a range of international settings. They focus on the key areas of pedagogy, language policy and curriculum and exemplify new research directions in the field.

This edited collection analyzes the role of digital technology in contemporary society dialectically. While many authors, journalists, and commentators have argued that the internet and digital technologies will bring us democracy, equality, and freedom, digital culture often results in loss of privacy, misinformation, and exploitation. This collection challenges celebratory readings of digital technology by suggesting digital culture's potential is limited because of its fundamental relationship to oppressive social forces. The Dialectic of Digital Culture explores ways the digital realm challenges and reproduces power. The contributors provide innovative case studies of various phenomenon including #metoo, Etsy, mommy blogs, music streaming, sustainability, and net neutrality to reveal the reproduction of neoliberal cultural logics. In seemingly transformative digital spaces, these essays provide dialectical readings that challenge dominant narratives about technology and study specific aspects of digital culture that are often under explored.

In the last chapters of the Rasputin trilogy, the mean old wolf seeks his final revenge upon Sasha the bear cub, for debts long overdue. Sasha still yet a cub, was stricken with an illness he still fights to recover from, and makes an easy target for Rasputin's jaws.
But, while tracking down a cub and his group of caring friends, Rasputin's come upon something in the bushes, moving shivering with fear. In his lust to attack any of Sasha pals, he leaps and grasps hold of his prey, only this time it's something he never anticipated: this time it's a lone wolf pup.
Rasputin's immediately torn by the plight of the pup, which was so similar to his own fate growing up. He fears the worst, but the pup is still alive, but in dire need of milk and food. Rasputin has to swallow his pride and anger and goes out in search of the same healer that is treating the bear cub.
Once among Sasha's friends and finally coming so close to his enemy, Rasputin fights the urge to destroy his foe, thinking only of the new pup he cradles. He takes the healer's advice and even vows to never lay harm onto Sasha or his forest friends, in repayment for the healer's help in reviving the young pup.
Seeking still a continued source of milk and food for the youngster, Rasputin's revives an old relationship with a coyote who also currently has pups. But residing pack if the forest decides to get rid of Rasputin once and for all... and track him down for a final fight to ring out through the night. Rasputin protects the coyote and her family, as well as his own pup, as the battle rages. He is vastly outnumbered, but them someone steps in, Rasputin something he's longed for all his life, and the life Rasputinis forever changed.

In The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children's Picture Books, Jennifer Miller identifies an archive of over 150 English-language children's picture books that explicitly represent LGBTQ+ identities, expressions, and issues. This archive is then analyzed to explore the evolution of LGBTQ+ characters and content from the 1970s to the present. Miller describes dominant tropes that emerge in the field to analyze historical shifts in representational practices, which she suggests parallel larger sociocultural shifts in the visibility of LGBTQ+ identities. Additionally, Miller considers material constraints and possibilities affecting the production, distribution, and consumption of LGBTQ+ children's picture books from the 1970s to the present. This foundational work defines the field of LGBTQ+ children's picture books thoroughly, yet accessibly. In addition to laying the groundwork for further research, The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children's Picture Books presents a reading lens, critical optimism, used to analyze the transformative potential of LGBTQ+ children's picture books. Many texts remain attached to heteronormative family forms and raced and classed models of success. However, by considering what these books put into the world, as well as problematic aspects of the world reproduced within them, Miller argues that LGBTQ+ children's picture books are an essential world-making project and seek to usher in a transformed world as well as a significant historical archive that reflects material and representational shifts in dominant and subcultural understandings of gender and sexuality.