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

Given the colossal impression of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the last zone century, it comes as no shock that gender reports have centred predominantly on problems with girl illustration. The query of the way an identical patriarchal ideology established 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 lady who's no longer so universal. she will speak with plants, animals and beings that now not each person can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves by means of sharing her skills. together with her center jam-packed with compassion, she indicates us that we're all hooked up 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 U.S., this assortment offers an creation to the scope and objectives of a box characterised by way of lively but additionally detailed 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 learn children’s literature with appreciate to cultural metaphors and motifs, ancient events, 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 publication is a learn 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 changing into a platform for a public dialog concerning the nice merits and poor dangers of our expanding dependence upon expertise in private and non-private existence.