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

Given the large effect of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the past zone century, it comes as no shock that gender reports have targeted predominantly on problems with girl illustration. The query of the way an analogous patriarchal ideology established representations of male our bodies and behaviors used to be till very lately a marginal dialogue.

The Story of a Star (The Star Series)

An inspirational tale of a tender lady who's no longer so universal. she will speak with plants, animals and beings that no longer everybody can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves through sharing her talents. along with her middle packed with compassion, she indicates us that we're all attached to each other, irrespective of how diverse 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 offers an advent to the scope and targets of a box characterised through energetic but in addition distinct scholarship in international locations with very assorted rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the variations among and overlapping issues of chinese language and American students, as they learn children’s literature with appreciate to cultural metaphors and motifs, ancient routine, authorship, didacticism, very important subject matters, 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 examine 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 hazards of our expanding dependence upon know-how in private and non-private existence.