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

Given the immense effect of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the last sector century, it comes as no shock that gender reviews have concentrated predominantly on problems with lady illustration. The query of the way a similar patriarchal ideology established 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 now not 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 through sharing her skills. together with her center filled with compassion, she indicates us that we're all hooked up to each other, regardless of how various 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 advent to the scope and pursuits of a box characterised by way of lively but additionally targeted scholarship in nations with very varied rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the variations among and overlapping matters of chinese language and American students, as they learn children’s literature with recognize to cultural metaphors and motifs, historic events, 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 publication 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 merits and poor dangers of our expanding dependence upon know-how in private and non-private existence.