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Hot Topics in Media
4 Reviews
(4)
4-6
Hot Topics in Media series.
This series, aimed at middle-grade readers, explores controversial issues in the media, looking at both sides of a topic and including discussion questions to prompt critical thinking. The page design is uninspired, but photos and sidebars enhance the texts. Body Image offers the most interesting discussion of a topic not generally found at the elementary school level. Reading list, timeline. Glos., ind. Review covers these Hot Topics in Media titles: Body Image and the Media, Parental Guidance Ratings, and Banned Books.
Reviewer: Cyrisse Jaffee
(4)
4-6
Hot Topics in Media series.
This middle-grade series explores controversial issues in the media. Once considered a bad influence on children, comics and graphic novels are now far more accepted; this book focuses on the genre's history, beginning with comic books in the 1930s. The page design is uninspired, but photos and sidebars enhance the texts, and discussion questions prompt critical thinking. Reading list, timeline. Glos., ind.
Reviewer: Cyrisse Jaffee
(4)
4-6
Hot Topics in Media series.
This series, aimed at middle-grade readers, explores controversial issues in the media, looking at both sides of a topic and including discussion questions to prompt critical thinking. The page design is uninspired, but photos and sidebars enhance the texts. Body Image offers the most interesting discussion of a topic not generally found at the elementary school level. Reading list, timeline. Glos., ind. Review covers these Hot Topics in Media titles: Body Image and the Media, Parental Guidance Ratings, and Banned Books.
Reviewer: Cyrisse Jaffee
(4)
4-6
Hot Topics in Media series.
This series, aimed at middle-grade readers, explores controversial issues in the media, looking at both sides of a topic and including discussion questions to prompt critical thinking. The page design is uninspired, but photos and sidebars enhance the texts. Body Image offers the most interesting discussion of a topic not generally found at the elementary school level. Reading list, timeline. Glos., ind. Review covers these Hot Topics in Media titles: Body Image and the Media, Parental Guidance Ratings, and Banned Books.
Reviewer: Cyrisse Jaffee
4 reviews
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