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

Given the great impression 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 girl illustration. The query of the way an analogous patriarchal ideology dependent representations of male our bodies and behaviors was once until eventually 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 be able to speak 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. together with her center filled with compassion, she indicates us that we're all attached 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 USA, this assortment offers an advent to the scope and pursuits of a box characterised via energetic but in addition specified scholarship in international locations with very various rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the diversities among and overlapping matters of chinese language and American students, as they learn children’s literature with admire to cultural metaphors and motifs, ancient pursuits, 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 publication 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 advantages and poor hazards of our expanding dependence upon know-how in private and non-private lifestyles.