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 past region century, it comes as no shock that gender reports have centred predominantly on problems with woman illustration. The query of the way an analogous 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 now not 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 by way of sharing her skills. together with her center jam-packed with compassion, she exhibits us that we're all attached to each other, regardless 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 USA, this assortment offers an creation to the scope and objectives of a box characterised through lively but in addition special scholarship in nations 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 study children’s literature with recognize to cultural metaphors and motifs, historic 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 booklet is a learn 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 negative hazards of our expanding dependence upon know-how in private and non-private lifestyles.