Ways of Being Male: Representing Masculinities in Children's Literature (Children's Literature and Culture)

Given the immense effect of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the past zone century, it comes as no shock that gender reports have centred predominantly on problems with girl illustration. The query of ways an identical patriarchal ideology dependent representations of male our bodies and behaviors used to be until eventually very lately a marginal dialogue.

The Story of a Star (The Star Series)

An inspirational tale of a tender woman who's now not so universal. she will speak with plants, animals and beings that now not each person can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves by means of sharing her skills. along with her middle choked with compassion, she exhibits us that we're all hooked up to each other, regardless of how assorted we're.

Representing Children in Chinese and U.S. Children's Literature (Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present)

Bringing jointly children’s literature students from China and the us, this assortment presents an creation to the scope and pursuits of a box characterised through lively but additionally specified scholarship in international locations with very diversified rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the diversities among and overlapping issues of chinese language and American students, as they research children’s literature with recognize to cultural metaphors and motifs, ancient routine, authorship, didacticism, vital topics, and the present prestige of and destiny instructions for literature and feedback.

Digital Citizenship in Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Literature: Imaginary Activism (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature)

This ebook is a research of the evolving relationships among literature, our on-line world, and teens within the twenty-first century. Megan L. Musgrave explores the ways in which younger grownup fiction is changing into a platform for a public dialog in regards to the nice advantages and bad dangers of our expanding dependence upon expertise in private and non-private lifestyles.