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 last zone century, it comes as no shock that gender reports have centred predominantly on problems with girl illustration. The query of ways a similar patriarchal ideology dependent representations of male our bodies and behaviors used to be until eventually 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 speak with plants, animals and beings that now not every body 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 attached to each other, irrespective of how diversified 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 presents an advent to the scope and pursuits of a box characterised by means of lively but in addition specified 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 research children’s literature with admire to cultural metaphors and motifs, old routine, authorship, didacticism, vital 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 research of the evolving relationships among literature, our on-line world, and teenagers 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 negative hazards of our expanding dependence upon expertise in private and non-private existence.