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

Given the titanic impression of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the last region century, it comes as no shock that gender reports have concentrated predominantly on problems with woman illustration. The query of the way an identical 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 lady who's no longer so universal. she will converse with plants, animals and beings that no longer everybody can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves by way of sharing her skills. along with her middle filled 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 USA, this assortment offers an creation to the scope and pursuits of a box characterised through lively but in addition targeted scholarship in nations with very diverse rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the diversities among and overlapping matters of chinese language and American students, as they research children’s literature with appreciate to cultural metaphors and motifs, ancient pursuits, 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 e-book is a examine 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 poor hazards of our expanding dependence upon expertise in private and non-private lifestyles.