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

Given the sizeable impression of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the past region century, it comes as no shock that gender reports have centred predominantly on problems with lady illustration. The query of ways an identical patriarchal ideology dependent 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 woman who's now not so universal. she will converse with plants, animals and beings that now not every body can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves through sharing her skills. along with her middle packed with compassion, she exhibits us that we're all hooked up to each other, regardless 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 us, this assortment offers an creation to the scope and targets of a box characterised by means of lively but in addition designated scholarship in nations with very various 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 recognize to cultural metaphors and motifs, old hobbies, 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 e-book is a learn 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.