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

Given the titanic impression of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the past sector century, it comes as no shock that gender reports have concentrated predominantly on problems with girl illustration. The query of the way an analogous patriarchal ideology established 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 woman who's now not so universal. she will converse with plants, animals and beings that now not all people can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves through sharing her skills. along with her middle choked 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 presents an advent to the scope and ambitions of a box characterised by means of energetic but additionally particular scholarship in international locations with very assorted rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the diversities among and overlapping matters of chinese language and American students, as they learn children’s literature with recognize to cultural metaphors and motifs, historic events, 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 booklet 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 turning into a platform for a public dialog concerning the nice merits and negative hazards of our expanding dependence upon expertise in private and non-private existence.