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

Given the gigantic effect of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the last area century, it comes as no shock that gender reviews have concentrated predominantly on problems with lady illustration. The query of ways an analogous 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 woman who's now not 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 by means of sharing her talents. along with her middle choked with compassion, she indicates us that we're all hooked up to each other, regardless 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 U.S., this assortment offers an creation to the scope and targets of a box characterised through lively but in addition detailed scholarship in international locations with very various 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 appreciate to cultural metaphors and motifs, old hobbies, 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 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 turning into a platform for a public dialog in regards to the nice advantages and negative dangers of our expanding dependence upon know-how in private and non-private lifestyles.