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

Given the mammoth impression of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the past sector century, it comes as no shock that gender reviews have concentrated predominantly on problems with lady illustration. The query of the way an identical patriarchal ideology based representations of male our bodies and behaviors used to be 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 be able to converse with plants, animals and beings that now not every body can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves by means of sharing her skills. along with her center choked with compassion, she indicates us that we're all attached to each other, irrespective 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 us, this assortment presents an advent to the scope and ambitions of a box characterised via energetic but in addition targeted scholarship in international locations with very various 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 appreciate to cultural metaphors and motifs, ancient hobbies, authorship, didacticism, vital 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 e-book 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 turning into a platform for a public dialog concerning the nice advantages and bad dangers of our expanding dependence upon know-how in private and non-private existence.