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

Given the immense influence of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the last area century, it comes as no shock that gender reviews have centred predominantly on problems with woman illustration. The query of the way an identical patriarchal ideology based 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 woman who's now not so universal. she will speak with plants, animals and beings that no longer each person can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves by way of sharing her skills. along with her center jam-packed with compassion, she exhibits us that we're all hooked up to each other, regardless 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 targets of a box characterised via energetic but in addition designated scholarship in nations with very assorted 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, old routine, 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 ebook 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 turning into a platform for a public dialog concerning the nice merits and poor dangers of our expanding dependence upon know-how in private and non-private lifestyles.