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

Given the tremendous influence of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the past zone century, it comes as no shock that gender reviews have concentrated predominantly on problems with lady illustration. The query of the way an analogous patriarchal ideology dependent representations of male our bodies and behaviors used to be 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 be able to converse with plants, animals and beings that no longer every person can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves via sharing her talents. together with her middle packed with compassion, she indicates us that we're all attached 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 advent to the scope and ambitions of a box characterised through energetic but in addition distinct 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 research children’s literature with appreciate to cultural metaphors and motifs, ancient 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 publication is a research 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 in regards to the nice advantages and bad dangers of our expanding dependence upon expertise in private and non-private existence.