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

Given the monstrous influence of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the last zone century, it comes as no shock that gender experiences have centred predominantly on problems with lady illustration. The query of ways an identical 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 no longer so universal. she will speak with plants, animals and beings that now not all people can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves by way of sharing her skills. along with her center packed with compassion, she indicates us that we're all hooked up to each other, irrespective of how diversified 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 creation to the scope and objectives of a box characterised through energetic but additionally designated scholarship in international locations with very diverse rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the diversities among and overlapping matters of chinese language and American students, as they learn children’s literature with admire to cultural metaphors and motifs, old hobbies, 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 ebook is a learn of the evolving relationships among literature, our on-line world, and teens within the twenty-first century. Megan L. Musgrave explores the ways in which younger grownup fiction is changing into a platform for a public dialog concerning the nice advantages and poor dangers of our expanding dependence upon expertise in private and non-private existence.