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

Given the tremendous impression of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the last region century, it comes as no shock that gender stories have centred predominantly on problems with girl illustration. The query of ways 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 all people can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves via sharing her talents. along with her center packed with compassion, she indicates us that we're all attached 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 offers an creation to the scope and targets of a box characterised by way of lively but additionally designated scholarship in international locations with very diversified rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the diversities among and overlapping matters of chinese language and American students, as they study children’s literature with appreciate to cultural metaphors and motifs, ancient pursuits, 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 ebook 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 in regards to the nice merits and poor dangers of our expanding dependence upon know-how in private and non-private lifestyles.