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Literacies in Homes and Communities 11 that are connected to stories, the process of recognition of those practices is more complex. Since home literacies are often embedded within multilingual scripts, craft activities, computer games, television programs, and oral stories it is important to widen the lens through which to recognize home literacy practices. A multidisciplinary lens is required to do that important work. We argue, in this review, for a bringing together of a lens that challenges contemporary 'tropes' of home literacy practices (for example, book sharing) and widens the scope of the ways in which home literacies are recognized so that this potential can be carried into the wider domains of school, workplace and community.

The case of a 50-year-old man who died mysteriously after being admitted to hospital is reported. He had raised the possibility of being poisoned prior to his death. A Coroner's post-mortem did not reveal the cause of death but this was subsequently established by post-mortem trace element analysis of liver, urine, blood and hair all of which revealed very high arsenic concentrations.

The article builds upon work carried out through a Children’s Literature in Critical Contexts of Displacement (CLCCD) network funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council–Global Challenges Research Fund. The network brought together academics as well as government and non-governmental organisations with expertise in children’s literature, migration, and education who were actively working in Egypt and Mexico. They collaboratively designed workshops that examined the use of children’s literature as a cultural tool for post-crisis interventions that could contribute to creating a safe space for children and their families to reimagine and restore their self and group identities. This article begins by unravelling the concept of hope, arguing for a critical understanding of hope for transformative use within contexts of flux. Using a critical content analysis approach, five picturebooks used by Egyptian and Mexican mediators were analysed in order to develop an understanding of how critical hope developed within the texts. The emerging themes have been expanded into a set of guiding questions that will enable mediators and educators to use children’s literature in contexts of displacement or precarity.