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 past region century, it comes as no shock that gender experiences have concentrated predominantly on problems with lady illustration. The query of ways an identical patriarchal ideology established representations of male our bodies and behaviors was once 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 speak with plants, animals and beings that now not every body can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves through sharing her talents. along with her center choked with compassion, she indicates us that we're all hooked up to each other, regardless of how diverse 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 ambitions of a box characterised by way of lively but in addition exact scholarship in international locations with very diversified 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 appreciate to cultural metaphors and motifs, old 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 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 advantages and negative dangers of our expanding dependence upon expertise in private and non-private existence.