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

Given the titanic impression of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the last area century, it comes as no shock that gender experiences have concentrated predominantly on problems with woman 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 woman who's no longer so universal. she will be able to converse with plants, animals and beings that no longer all people can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves via sharing her talents. along with her center jam-packed with compassion, she indicates us that we're all attached to each other, irrespective 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 us, this assortment presents an creation to the scope and ambitions of a box characterised by way of energetic but additionally designated 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 recognize to cultural metaphors and motifs, ancient hobbies, authorship, didacticism, vital 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 booklet is a research of the evolving relationships among literature, our on-line world, and teenagers 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 poor dangers of our expanding dependence upon expertise in private and non-private existence.