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

Given the big effect of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the last sector century, it comes as no shock that gender reports have concentrated predominantly on problems with girl illustration. The query of the way an identical patriarchal ideology based representations of male our bodies and behaviors used to be till very lately a marginal dialogue.

The Story of a Star (The Star Series)

An inspirational tale of a tender woman who's no longer so universal. she will speak with plants, animals and beings that now not everybody can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves by way of sharing her skills. along with her center jam-packed with compassion, she exhibits us that we're all hooked up to each other, regardless of how various 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 offers an advent to the scope and ambitions of a box characterised through lively but in addition certain scholarship in nations 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 research children’s literature with appreciate to cultural metaphors and motifs, ancient hobbies, authorship, didacticism, vital 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 ebook 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 merits and poor hazards of our expanding dependence upon know-how in private and non-private existence.