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

Given the immense influence of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the last zone century, it comes as no shock that gender reports have centred predominantly on problems with girl illustration. The query of ways an analogous 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 no longer so universal. she will be able to speak with plants, animals and beings that now not every person can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves via sharing her talents. along with her middle packed with compassion, she indicates us that we're all hooked up to each other, regardless of how assorted 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 objectives of a box characterised through lively but in addition specific 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 study children’s literature with recognize to cultural metaphors and motifs, historic events, authorship, didacticism, very important 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 ebook 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 changing into a platform for a public dialog in regards to the nice merits and poor hazards of our expanding dependence upon expertise in private and non-private lifestyles.