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

Given the big influence of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the last area century, it comes as no shock that gender experiences have centred predominantly on problems with lady illustration. The query of ways a similar 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 be able to speak with plants, animals and beings that now not every person can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves by means of sharing her skills. together with her middle jam-packed with compassion, she exhibits us that we're all hooked up 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 us, this assortment offers an creation to the scope and targets of a box characterised through energetic but additionally exact 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 recognize to cultural metaphors and motifs, ancient activities, 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 e-book 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 advantages and poor hazards of our expanding dependence upon know-how in private and non-private lifestyles.