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

Given the giant influence of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the last area century, it comes as no shock that gender reviews have centred predominantly on problems with woman illustration. The query of the way an identical patriarchal ideology based representations of male our bodies and behaviors used to be 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 now not every body can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves by means of sharing her skills. together with her middle jam-packed with compassion, she indicates us that we're all hooked up 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 us, this assortment presents an creation to the scope and ambitions of a box characterised through energetic but additionally designated scholarship in nations with very varied rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the diversities among and overlapping issues of chinese language and American students, as they research children’s literature with appreciate to cultural metaphors and motifs, old pursuits, 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 ebook is a research 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 in regards to the nice advantages and negative hazards of our expanding dependence upon know-how in private and non-private lifestyles.