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

Given the massive impression of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the last area century, it comes as no shock that gender reviews have centred predominantly on problems with girl illustration. The query of ways a similar patriarchal ideology based 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 speak with plants, animals and beings that no longer each person can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves via sharing her talents. together with her center filled with compassion, she exhibits us that we're all hooked up 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 presents an advent to the scope and ambitions of a box characterised by way of lively but in addition specific scholarship in international locations with very various rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the variations among and overlapping matters of chinese language and American students, as they research children’s literature with appreciate to cultural metaphors and motifs, ancient hobbies, 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 publication 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 dangers of our expanding dependence upon expertise in private and non-private lifestyles.