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

Given the colossal influence of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the last sector century, it comes as no shock that gender experiences have concentrated predominantly on problems with girl illustration. The query of ways an analogous patriarchal ideology dependent 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 no longer so universal. she will be able to converse with plants, animals and beings that no longer all people can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves via sharing her skills. along with her center filled with compassion, she indicates 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 USA, this assortment presents an creation to the scope and targets of a box characterised by way of energetic but in addition certain 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 appreciate to cultural metaphors and motifs, ancient hobbies, 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 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 concerning the nice advantages and bad hazards of our expanding dependence upon expertise in private and non-private lifestyles.