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 last zone century, it comes as no shock that gender experiences have centred 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 now not so universal. she will be able to speak with plants, animals and beings that now not every person can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves by means of sharing her talents. along with her center 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 USA, this assortment presents an advent to the scope and ambitions of a box characterised via lively but additionally specific scholarship in international locations with very assorted rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the variations among and overlapping matters of chinese language and American students, as they learn children’s literature with recognize to cultural metaphors and motifs, ancient activities, authorship, didacticism, very important topics, 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 research 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 changing into a platform for a public dialog concerning the nice merits and negative hazards of our expanding dependence upon know-how in private and non-private existence.