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

Given the immense influence of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the last area century, it comes as no shock that gender stories have concentrated predominantly on problems with lady illustration. The query of ways an analogous 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 woman who's now not so universal. she will converse with plants, animals and beings that now not all people can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves by means of sharing her skills. together with her middle filled with compassion, she indicates us that we're all attached to each other, regardless of how assorted 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 offers an advent to the scope and targets of a box characterised by means of energetic but additionally detailed 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, 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 ebook 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 concerning the nice advantages and negative hazards of our expanding dependence upon expertise in private and non-private existence.