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 concentrated predominantly on problems with woman illustration. The query of the way a similar 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 lady who's now not so universal. she will be able to converse with plants, animals and beings that now not every person can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves through sharing her talents. together with her middle choked with compassion, she indicates 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 offers an advent to the scope and objectives of a box characterised via energetic but additionally designated scholarship in nations with very various rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the variations among and overlapping issues of chinese language and American students, as they research children’s literature with appreciate to cultural metaphors and motifs, ancient events, authorship, didacticism, very important issues, 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 e-book 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 advantages and poor dangers of our expanding dependence upon expertise in private and non-private existence.