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

Given the vast impression of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the past region century, it comes as no shock that gender experiences have concentrated predominantly on problems with woman illustration. The query of the way an analogous patriarchal ideology dependent representations of male our bodies and behaviors was once 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 converse with plants, animals and beings that now not every person can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves by way of sharing her talents. along with her center packed with compassion, she indicates us that we're all attached 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 USA, this assortment offers an advent to the scope and objectives of a box characterised by way of energetic but in addition distinct scholarship in international locations with very diverse 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, historic events, authorship, didacticism, very important 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 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.