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

Given the enormous influence of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the past area century, it comes as no shock that gender reviews 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 was once until eventually very lately a marginal dialogue.

The Story of a Star (The Star Series)

An inspirational tale of a tender lady who's no longer so universal. she will be able to converse with plants, animals and beings that no longer each person can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves via sharing her skills. together with her center jam-packed 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 presents an advent to the scope and ambitions of a box characterised through energetic but additionally detailed scholarship in international locations with very diverse rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the diversities among and overlapping issues of chinese language and American students, as they learn children’s literature with appreciate to cultural metaphors and motifs, historic activities, authorship, didacticism, very important 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 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 in regards to the nice merits and poor dangers of our expanding dependence upon know-how in private and non-private lifestyles.