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

Given the great effect of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the past region century, it comes as no shock that gender stories have targeted predominantly on problems with woman illustration. The query of the way an identical patriarchal ideology dependent 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 no longer so universal. she will be able to speak 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 skills. along with her middle 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 offers an creation to the scope and targets of a box characterised by way of lively but additionally exact scholarship in nations with very varied 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 admire to cultural metaphors and motifs, ancient 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 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 bad hazards of our expanding dependence upon expertise in private and non-private existence.