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

Given the immense impression of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the past zone century, it comes as no shock that gender experiences have targeted predominantly on problems with lady illustration. The query of ways an analogous patriarchal ideology dependent 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 every body can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves via sharing her skills. together with her middle filled with compassion, she indicates 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 us, this assortment presents an creation to the scope and targets of a box characterised via lively but in addition designated scholarship in international locations with very diversified rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the variations among and overlapping issues of chinese language and American students, as they research children’s literature with appreciate to cultural metaphors and motifs, ancient pursuits, authorship, didacticism, very important subject matters, 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 merits and negative dangers of our expanding dependence upon expertise in private and non-private lifestyles.