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

Given the large impression of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the last sector century, it comes as no shock that gender experiences have concentrated predominantly on problems with woman illustration. The query of ways 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 speak with plants, animals and beings that no longer all people can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves via sharing her skills. along with her center jam-packed with compassion, she exhibits us that we're all hooked up to each other, regardless of how diversified 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 offers an creation to the scope and targets of a box characterised through lively but additionally designated scholarship in international locations with very diversified rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the diversities among and overlapping issues of chinese language and American students, as they learn children’s literature with admire to cultural metaphors and motifs, ancient events, 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 publication is a examine 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 advantages and negative dangers of our expanding dependence upon expertise in private and non-private existence.