Writing superheroes : contemporary childhood, popular culture, and classroom literacy

Studying Children’s Social and Textual Lives – Appropriated and Disputed Heroes The Blobs and the X-People – New Perspectives on Old Representations The Trials and Tribulations of Emily and Other Media Misses – Text as Dialogic Medium The Coming of Venus Tina – Texts as Markers and Mediators of Tough Talking Kids Transformed and Silenced Lovers – Texts as Sites of Revelation and Circumvention The Negotiating Teachers – On Freeing the Children to Write.