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

Given the significant impression of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the last sector century, it comes as no shock that gender reviews have targeted predominantly on problems with girl illustration. The query of ways a similar patriarchal ideology established representations of male our bodies and behaviors used to be 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 speak with plants, animals and beings that no longer each person can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves by way 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 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 U.S., this assortment presents an advent to the scope and objectives of a box characterised by way of lively but in addition special scholarship in nations with very assorted rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the diversities among and overlapping issues of chinese language and American students, as they learn children’s literature with admire to cultural metaphors and motifs, historic pursuits, 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 booklet 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 changing into a platform for a public dialog concerning the nice merits and negative dangers of our expanding dependence upon know-how in private and non-private lifestyles.