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

Given the immense effect of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the last area century, it comes as no shock that gender stories have targeted predominantly on problems with girl illustration. The query of ways an analogous patriarchal ideology dependent representations of male our bodies and behaviors was once till very lately a marginal dialogue.

The Story of a Star (The Star Series)

An inspirational tale of a tender lady who's no longer so universal. she will converse with plants, animals and beings that no longer every person can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves via sharing her talents. together with her center packed with compassion, she exhibits us that we're all attached 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 offers an creation to the scope and targets of a box characterised by way of lively but additionally specified scholarship in nations with very various 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, ancient routine, 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 publication is a examine 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 advantages and negative dangers of our expanding dependence upon know-how in private and non-private existence.