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

Given the immense influence of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the last sector century, it comes as no shock that gender reviews have concentrated predominantly on problems with girl illustration. The query of ways an identical patriarchal ideology dependent representations of male our bodies and behaviors was once till very lately a marginal dialogue.

The Story of a Star (The Star Series)

An inspirational tale of a tender lady who's now not so universal. she will be able to converse with plants, animals and beings that no longer every body can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves via sharing her talents. together with her center packed with compassion, she indicates us that we're all hooked up to each other, irrespective of how varied 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 USA, this assortment offers an advent to the scope and targets of a box characterised by way of lively but additionally specific 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 study children’s literature with admire to cultural metaphors and motifs, ancient hobbies, authorship, didacticism, vital 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 learn 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 concerning the nice advantages and bad hazards of our expanding dependence upon know-how in private and non-private lifestyles.