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

Given the massive effect of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the last area century, it comes as no shock that gender reports have concentrated predominantly on problems with woman illustration. The query of ways 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 no longer so universal. she will be able to converse with plants, animals and beings that now not each person can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves through sharing her skills. along with her center jam-packed with compassion, she indicates us that we're all attached to each other, irrespective 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 us, this assortment presents an advent to the scope and targets of a box characterised through lively but in addition certain scholarship in international locations with very varied rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the diversities among and overlapping matters of chinese language and American students, as they study children’s literature with admire to cultural metaphors and motifs, old activities, authorship, didacticism, vital topics, 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 changing into a platform for a public dialog concerning the nice merits and negative dangers of our expanding dependence upon expertise in private and non-private existence.