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

Given the large influence of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the last region century, it comes as no shock that gender reports have concentrated predominantly on problems with girl illustration. The query of the way an identical patriarchal ideology established 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 converse with plants, animals and beings that now not each person can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves by way of sharing her skills. along with her middle filled 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 U.S., this assortment offers an creation to the scope and ambitions of a box characterised through energetic but in addition designated scholarship in international locations with very diversified rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the diversities among and overlapping issues of chinese language and American students, as they research children’s literature with recognize to cultural metaphors and motifs, old pursuits, 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 publication is a examine 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 in regards to the nice advantages and poor hazards of our expanding dependence upon know-how in private and non-private lifestyles.