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

Given the massive effect of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the last sector century, it comes as no shock that gender reviews have targeted predominantly on problems with girl illustration. The query of the way an analogous patriarchal ideology based representations of male our bodies and behaviors used to be till very lately a marginal dialogue.

The Story of a Star (The Star Series)

An inspirational tale of a tender woman who's now not so universal. she will converse with plants, animals and beings that no longer each person can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves by means of sharing her talents. along with her middle jam-packed with compassion, she exhibits us that we're all hooked up to each other, regardless of how diverse 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 pursuits of a box characterised by way of lively but in addition specific scholarship in international locations 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 activities, 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 ebook is a examine 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 turning into a platform for a public dialog in regards to the nice merits and negative hazards of our expanding dependence upon expertise in private and non-private lifestyles.