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

Given the sizeable impression of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the past zone century, it comes as no shock that gender experiences have centred predominantly on problems with woman illustration. The query of the way a similar patriarchal ideology established representations of male our bodies and behaviors used to be until eventually 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 now not everybody can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves via sharing her skills. along with her middle packed with compassion, she exhibits us that we're all hooked up to each other, regardless of how various 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 ambitions of a box characterised via lively but in addition detailed scholarship in international locations with very various rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the variations among and overlapping issues of chinese language and American students, as they study children’s literature with recognize to cultural metaphors and motifs, old routine, authorship, didacticism, very important issues, 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 ebook is a research 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 turning into a platform for a public dialog in regards to the nice merits and negative hazards of our expanding dependence upon know-how in private and non-private lifestyles.