"Rubin loves the beautiful sounds that are played by the orchestra. He wants to learn to play the violin and make his own music. But when Rubin plays, it doesn't sound like he imagines it should. Rubin goes into the forest to practice alone and despite only getting the violin to screech, he finds an unlikely audience that loves his unique style"--

Seeing Gender is an of-the-moment investigation into how we express and understand the complexities of gender today. Deeply researched and fully illustrated, this book demystifies an intensely personal--yet universal--facet of humanity. Illustrating a different concept on each spread, queer author and artist Iris Gottlieb touches on history, science, sociology, and her own experience. This book is an essential tool for understanding and contributing...

Sharing candid interviews with 13 top children's and young adult authors who discuss why their books have faced censorship, a historian and critic puts First Amendment challenges into historical context and examines the support network that protects and defends young people's rights.

A group of actors demonstrate a series of voice and body exercises that unite a series of moving, breathing and sounding actions in an integrated full-bodied acting workout. These smart exercises do more than simply build essential skills in alignment, movement, respiration, resonance and range, but simultaneously prepare the actor for the expression of the body's richest and most powerful thoughts and feelings. The goal is the development of a flexible...

"Featuring a collection of original letters and notes from celebrities and the September Letters community alongside interviews with mental health experts, this empowering guide shows us how sharing our stories is a powerful tool of self-expression, knowledge, and healing and how they can reveal to us our connected humanity"--

"The sixth book in the bestselling Master Guide to Drawing Anime series focuses on using principles of figure drawing to create anime characters and scenes. In this new title, Christopher Hart combines two subjects he is well known for-figure drawing and anime. The classic concepts of figure drawing are a perfect place to start for the aspiring anime artist. This book shows readers how to apply basic figure-drawing principles to the anime style that...

Contains a collection of interviews with thirteen children's and young adult authors discussing their experiences with censorship, and examines books that have faced challenges of First Amendment Rights.

This book discusses the importance of free speech, freedom of expression and freedom of the press in a democracy.

This website includes uncensored news reports from Asian countries on human rights violations, freedom of expression, political persecution, and other topics.