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

Given the large impression of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the last sector century, it comes as no shock that gender stories have centred predominantly on problems with woman illustration. The query of ways an identical patriarchal ideology based 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 woman who's now not so universal. she will speak with plants, animals and beings that no longer all people can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves through sharing her talents. along with her middle filled with compassion, she exhibits us that we're all attached to each other, irrespective 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 offers an creation to the scope and pursuits of a box characterised by way of lively but in addition distinct scholarship in international locations 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 study children’s literature with admire to cultural metaphors and motifs, ancient activities, 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 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 changing into a platform for a public dialog concerning the nice advantages and negative hazards of our expanding dependence upon expertise in private and non-private existence.