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

Given the significant effect 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 lady illustration. The query of ways an analogous 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 speak with plants, animals and beings that no longer everybody can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves through sharing her skills. along with her center choked with compassion, she indicates us that we're all hooked up to each other, irrespective of how varied 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 advent to the scope and pursuits of a box characterised via lively but in addition special scholarship in international locations with very various 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 admire to cultural metaphors and motifs, ancient hobbies, 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 changing into a platform for a public dialog in regards to the nice advantages and bad dangers of our expanding dependence upon expertise in private and non-private existence.