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

Given the enormous effect of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the last sector century, it comes as no shock that gender stories have targeted predominantly on problems with woman illustration. The query of the way an analogous 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 lady who's no longer so universal. she will be able to converse with plants, animals and beings that no longer everybody can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves through sharing her skills. along with her middle choked with compassion, she indicates us that we're all attached to each other, irrespective 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 advent to the scope and ambitions of a box characterised by means of energetic but in addition particular scholarship in nations 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 pursuits, authorship, didacticism, vital 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 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 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.