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

Given the large influence of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the last zone century, it comes as no shock that gender stories have centred predominantly on problems with woman illustration. The query of the way a similar 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 every person can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves via sharing her skills. along with her middle jam-packed with compassion, she exhibits us that we're all attached 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 ambitions of a box characterised by means of energetic but in addition detailed scholarship in nations with very diversified rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the variations among and overlapping issues of chinese language and American students, as they study children’s literature with admire to cultural metaphors and motifs, historic hobbies, 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 teenagers 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 negative dangers of our expanding dependence upon expertise in private and non-private existence.