Based on the upcoming direct–to–video Barbie movie, this panorama stickerbook encourages girls to read the exciting story and then recreate the tale with reusable stickers and a two-sided play board. Life is sweet for Merliah Summers—not only has she been reunited with her mother, Queen Clarissa of Oceana, but she’s heading to Australia to compete in a surf tournament! But a jealous competitor could ruin everything for Merliah when she releases evil Eris, who longs to rid Oceana of Queen Clarissa and rule it herself. Will Merliah be able to save the day?

Based on the movie Barbie and The Secret Door, this panorama sticker book encourages girls to read the story and then re-create the tale with reusable stickers and two double-sided playboards. This enchanting book lets young children read AND recreate the exciting story of Barbie and the Secret Door. Great for hours and hours of imaginative play, this enthralling storybook includes built-to-last playscenes and reusable stickers. Girls aged 5 to 8 will love using the compelling and endearing characters to retell this favorite stories or make up an entirely new adventure of their own.

Based on the latest direct–to–video Barbie movie, this new panorama stickerbook encourages girls to read the exciting story and then recreate the tale with reusable stickers and a two-sided play board. When Ken is kidnapped by a fairy who wants to marry him, Barbie and Raquelle put their differences aside and join forces to rescue him. A fairy, Princess Graciella, has been placed under a love spell by another fairy, Crystal, who is in love with Graciella’s boyfriend Zane, and has devised this plan to separate them. Her plan may actually work, except Barbie discovers her friends Carrie and Taylor are also fairies and enlists their help to enter this parallel fairy world, Gloss Angeles. This 16-page storybook based on the movie Barbie A Fairy Secret, is designed with a fold-out back cover that extends to become a panoramic play board. Girls can use the included reusable stickers to create their own version of the story.

Barbie is off to Australia for one of the fiercest competitions in town! But how will Barbie juggle her life both above and underneath the ocean when they conflict? Barbie in a Mermaid Tale 2 - coming to DVD in March 2012! Scenes and activities feature Barbie and friends based on the direct-to-DVD movie, Barbie in A Mermaid Tale 2.

"In the worldwide circulation of the products of cultural industries, an important role is played by Japanese popular culture in European contexts. Marco Pellitteri shows that the contact between Japanese pop culture and European youth publics occurred during two phases. By use of metaphor, the author calls them the Dragon and the Dazzle. The first took place between 1975 and 1995, the second from 1996 to today. They can be distinguished by the modalities of circulation and consumption/re-elaboration of Japanese themes and products in the most receptive countries: Italy, France, Spain, Germany and, across the ocean, the United States. During these two phases, several themes have been perceived, in Europe, as rising from Japan's social and mediatic systems. Among them, this book examines the most apparent from a European point of view: the author names them machine, infant, and mutation, visible mostly through manga, anime, videogames, and toys. Together with France, Italy is the European country that in this respect has had the most central role. There, Japanese imagination has been acknowledged not only by young people, but also by politicians, television programmers, the general public, educators, comics and cartoons authors. The growing influence of Japanese pop culture, connected to the appreciation of its manga, anime, toys, and videogames, also urges political and mediologic questions linked to the identity/ies of Japan as they are understood--wrongly or rightly--in Europe and the West, and to the increasingly important role of Japan in international relations."--Back cover

America is a corporatized society defined by a culture of consumerism, and the youth market is one of the groups that corporations target most. By marketing directly to children, through television, movies, radio, video games, toys, books, and fast food, advertisers have produced a 'kinderculture'. In this eye-opening book, editor Shirley R. Steinberg reveals the profound impact that our purchasing-obsessed culture has on our children and argues that the experience of childhood has been reshaped into something that is prefabricated. Analyzing the pervasive influence of these corporate productions, top experts in the fields of education, sociology, communications, and cultural studies contribute incisive essays that students, parents, educators, and general readers will find insightful and entertaining. Including seven new chapters, this third edition is thoroughly updated with examinations of the icons that shape the values and consciousness of today's children, including Twilight, True Blood, and vampires, hip hop, Hannah Montana, Disney, and others.

Anagram Solver is the essential guide to cracking all types of quiz and crossword featuring anagrams. Containing over 200,000 words and phrases, Anagram Solver includes plural noun forms, palindromes, idioms, first names and all parts of speech. Anagrams are grouped by the number of letters they contain with the letters set out in alphabetical order so that once the letters of an anagram are arranged alphabetically, finding the solution is as easy as locating the word in a dictionary.

When Merliah travels to Australia for a surfing tournament, a jealous competitor steals her mermaid magic and releases the evil Eris from her prison, and Merliah must save the mermaid kingdom without her mermaid powers.