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

Given the sizeable effect of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the last region century, it comes as no shock that gender experiences have targeted predominantly on problems with girl illustration. The query of the way an identical patriarchal ideology dependent 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 speak with plants, animals and beings that no longer all people can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves through sharing her skills. together with her center packed with compassion, she indicates us that we're all attached 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 targets of a box characterised by means of energetic but additionally specified scholarship in international locations with very assorted rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the diversities among and overlapping issues of chinese language and American students, as they learn children’s literature with recognize to cultural metaphors and motifs, historic activities, authorship, didacticism, very important topics, 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 research 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 in regards to the nice advantages and bad dangers of our expanding dependence upon know-how in private and non-private existence.