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=**Welcome to Kidculture**= ====Kidculture is a wiki dedicated to expanding the study of children's literature for young readers between the ages of 0-12 as child culture. This wiki is established as an educational tool to further the understanding of what constitutes children's literature and a space for talking about exceptional, exciting, or simply highly enjoyable instances of children's literature for those interested in its study.==== Children's Literature Publishing Awards

Key Cultural Discourses
Kidculture especially values depictions of children by adults and children in key cultural discourses, the media that make up representations of the stories that inform cultural consciousness about what it means to be a boy, a girl, a son, a daughter, a friend, etc. The stories that children recognize and share include multiple formats suggesting a need to reevaluate what children's literature is, its manifestations in both form and content. To this end Kidculture is broken down into several categories including:


 * Children's Fiction
 * Picturebooks (for children)
 * Comics
 * Magazines
 * Films
 * Television
 * Fanfiction
 * Video Games

Section Overviews
Each section of focus from the list above includes a short theoretical overview with key concepts about the genre including its relation to child culture as well as key scholars and scholarship surrounding its study specifically linked to children's literature as a specialization. Additional links to sources of interest will also be added over time.

Individual Selection
Within each section are individual selections of interest: specific samples of the genre //researched by the contributor// for the educational and entertainment value it offers to young readers. These selections contain a brief summary and review, author/creator information including a short bio and a list of other works, awards, the historical context, and major themes.

Contributors
Kidculture is a wiki formed by higher education scholars and teachers interested in sharing sources for educational purposes.