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

Given the gigantic effect of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the last region century, it comes as no shock that gender stories have centred predominantly on problems with girl illustration. The query of ways a similar 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 lady who's now not so universal. she will converse with plants, animals and beings that no longer every person can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves via sharing her skills. together with her center choked 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 advent to the scope and pursuits of a box characterised via lively but in addition precise scholarship in nations with very varied rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the variations among and overlapping matters of chinese language and American students, as they learn children’s literature with admire to cultural metaphors and motifs, ancient 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 e-book 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 changing into a platform for a public dialog in regards to the nice advantages and negative hazards of our expanding dependence upon know-how in private and non-private existence.