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

Given the enormous effect of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the last area century, it comes as no shock that gender stories have concentrated predominantly on problems with girl illustration. The query of the way an analogous patriarchal ideology based 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 woman who's no longer so universal. she will speak with plants, animals and beings that now not each person can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves via sharing her talents. together with her center jam-packed 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 presents an advent to the scope and targets of a box characterised via lively but additionally detailed 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 research children’s literature with admire to cultural metaphors and motifs, historic pursuits, 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 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 concerning the nice advantages and poor dangers of our expanding dependence upon know-how in private and non-private existence.