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

Given the huge impression of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the past region century, it comes as no shock that gender experiences have targeted predominantly on problems with woman illustration. The query of the way a similar patriarchal ideology based 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 converse with plants, animals and beings that now not all people can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves by way of sharing her skills. together with her middle choked with compassion, she indicates us that we're all hooked up to each other, irrespective of how various 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 us, this assortment offers an creation to the scope and ambitions of a box characterised by means of lively but in addition detailed scholarship in nations with very diversified rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the variations among and overlapping matters of chinese language and American students, as they research children’s literature with admire to cultural metaphors and motifs, old activities, 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 ebook 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 concerning the nice advantages and poor dangers of our expanding dependence upon expertise in private and non-private existence.