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

Given the great influence of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the last zone century, it comes as no shock that gender stories have targeted predominantly on problems with woman illustration. The query of the way an identical patriarchal ideology dependent representations of male our bodies and behaviors was once until eventually very lately a marginal dialogue.

The Story of a Star (The Star Series)

An inspirational tale of a tender woman who's now not so universal. she will converse with plants, animals and beings that now not every person can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves through sharing her skills. together with her center jam-packed with compassion, she indicates us that we're all attached to each other, regardless of how diverse 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 creation to the scope and pursuits of a box characterised through lively but additionally special scholarship in international locations with very diverse 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 admire to cultural metaphors and motifs, historic pursuits, 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 e-book 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 concerning the nice advantages and bad hazards of our expanding dependence upon know-how in private and non-private lifestyles.