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

Given the monstrous effect of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the past area century, it comes as no shock that gender stories have concentrated predominantly on problems with lady illustration. The query of ways an identical patriarchal ideology based 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 lady who's now not so universal. she will be able to speak with plants, animals and beings that now not each person can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves by way of sharing her talents. together with her center packed with compassion, she exhibits 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 USA, this assortment presents an advent to the scope and objectives of a box characterised via lively but additionally particular scholarship in nations with very varied rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the diversities among and overlapping matters of chinese language and American students, as they research children’s literature with recognize to cultural metaphors and motifs, ancient pursuits, authorship, didacticism, very important 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 e-book is a examine 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 merits and bad hazards of our expanding dependence upon know-how in private and non-private existence.