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

Given the great impression of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the past zone century, it comes as no shock that gender stories 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 until eventually 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 converse with plants, animals and beings that now not everybody can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves through sharing her talents. along with her center packed with compassion, she indicates us that we're all attached to each other, irrespective of how assorted 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 pursuits of a box characterised by way of lively but additionally certain scholarship in nations with very assorted rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the diversities among and overlapping issues of chinese language and American students, as they study children’s literature with recognize to cultural metaphors and motifs, historic hobbies, 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 publication 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 merits and negative dangers of our expanding dependence upon expertise in private and non-private existence.