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

Given the significant effect of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the past sector century, it comes as no shock that gender reviews have targeted predominantly on problems with woman illustration. The query of ways an identical patriarchal ideology dependent representations of male our bodies and behaviors was once until eventually 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 now not every body can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves by way of sharing her talents. along with her middle choked with compassion, she indicates us that we're all attached to each other, regardless of how various 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 U.S., this assortment offers an creation to the scope and pursuits of a box characterised via energetic but additionally unique scholarship in nations 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 recognize to cultural metaphors and motifs, old 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 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 changing into a platform for a public dialog in regards to the nice merits and negative dangers of our expanding dependence upon expertise in private and non-private lifestyles.