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

Given the vast effect of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the past zone century, it comes as no shock that gender stories have concentrated predominantly on problems with lady illustration. The query of the way an identical patriarchal ideology based 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 no longer so universal. she will converse with plants, animals and beings that now not everybody can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves via sharing her skills. along with her center filled with compassion, she indicates us that we're all attached 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 offers an creation to the scope and objectives of a box characterised via energetic but in addition distinct scholarship in nations with very varied rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the variations among and overlapping matters of chinese language and American students, as they research children’s literature with recognize to cultural metaphors and motifs, historic 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 publication is a research of the evolving relationships among literature, our on-line world, and teenagers within the twenty-first century. Megan L. Musgrave explores the ways in which younger grownup fiction is turning into a platform for a public dialog in regards to the nice merits and poor hazards of our expanding dependence upon know-how in private and non-private lifestyles.