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

Given the vast effect of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the last region century, it comes as no shock that gender reports have centred predominantly on problems with woman illustration. The query of ways an analogous patriarchal ideology established 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 no longer so universal. she will converse with plants, animals and beings that no longer everybody can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves through sharing her skills. together with her middle choked 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 us, this assortment presents an advent to the scope and ambitions of a box characterised by way of lively but additionally special scholarship in international locations with very assorted rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the diversities among and overlapping matters of chinese language and American students, as they study children’s literature with appreciate to cultural metaphors and motifs, ancient activities, authorship, didacticism, very important issues, 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 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 advantages and poor hazards of our expanding dependence upon expertise in private and non-private lifestyles.