David Rudd

You can lead a small group Journey with Jim and Beth Johnson as they discover the four essential elements of small group leadership. You don't need a seminary degree or months of classes and seminars. Learning to implement these four simple elements is all you need in order to successfully launch and lead your small group. Included in this book is a guide to the first six weeks of your group's life. Use these charts and lists to plan every step of your group's first six meetings. These tools will enable you to bond as a group, grow spiritually together and work as a team to serve others.Also included is a detailed description of the 10 Commandments for Leading Discussions as well as helpful instructions for avoiding the 4 Most Common Community Killers.

Arts & Crafts is a celebration of the design movement that started in Britain and spread around the world at the end of the nineteenth century. Depicting both well-known and unusual art and artifacts from this most fascinating of eras, this book provides a wealth of information about the lives and times of the designers, architects and artists who created them.

Rudd explores and challenges the critical representation of the child in children's literature, looking at the child's positioning from a psychoanalytically informed perspective. He shows students how to work productively with theory, combining conceptual analysis with close-textual readings of key texts in a sophisticated yet readable manner.

Rudd explores and challenges the critical representation of the child in children's literature, looking at the child's positioning from a psychoanalytically informed perspective. He shows students how to work productively with theory, combining conceptual analysis with close-textual readings of key texts in a sophisticated yet readable manner.

Blyton has captivated children worldwide for almost eighty years, but there has been very little serious critical attention paid to her. This book remedies this, looking particularly at her three most popular and well-known series, Noddy, the Famous Five and Malory Towers . It is the first study to draw extensively on the view of her readership, past and present, and to use a variety of critical approaches to show how adult criticism has consistently missed the secret of her appeal.