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

Given the enormous influence of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the past sector century, it comes as no shock that gender experiences have targeted predominantly on problems with girl illustration. The query of the way a similar patriarchal ideology established 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 now not so universal. she will be able to speak with plants, animals and beings that no longer every person can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves via sharing her skills. together with her center jam-packed with compassion, she exhibits us that we're all hooked up to each other, irrespective 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 USA, this assortment offers an creation to the scope and targets of a box characterised by way of lively but additionally distinct scholarship in international locations with very diversified rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the diversities among and overlapping matters of chinese language and American students, as they study children’s literature with appreciate to cultural metaphors and motifs, old routine, 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 booklet is a learn 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 concerning the nice advantages and negative dangers of our expanding dependence upon expertise in private and non-private existence.