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

Given the monstrous influence of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the past region century, it comes as no shock that gender stories have concentrated predominantly on problems with lady illustration. The query of ways an identical patriarchal ideology established representations of male our bodies and behaviors was once until eventually 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 speak with plants, animals and beings that now not all people can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves by way of sharing her talents. together with her center jam-packed with compassion, she exhibits us that we're all hooked up 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 creation to the scope and targets of a box characterised by way of lively but additionally exact scholarship in international locations with very varied rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the variations among and overlapping issues of chinese language and American students, as they learn children’s literature with recognize to cultural metaphors and motifs, old 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 ebook 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 concerning the nice advantages and negative hazards of our expanding dependence upon expertise in private and non-private lifestyles.