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

Given the significant influence of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the past area century, it comes as no shock that gender experiences have concentrated predominantly on problems with lady illustration. The query of the way an analogous patriarchal ideology dependent 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 be able to speak with plants, animals and beings that no longer all people can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves via sharing her skills. together with her center packed with compassion, she exhibits 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 presents an advent to the scope and ambitions of a box characterised via lively but additionally distinct scholarship in international locations with very diverse rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the variations among and overlapping issues of chinese language and American students, as they research children’s literature with appreciate to cultural metaphors and motifs, old activities, authorship, didacticism, vital 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 publication is a research 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 concerning the nice merits and bad dangers of our expanding dependence upon know-how in private and non-private existence.