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 experiences have concentrated predominantly on problems with girl illustration. The query of ways an analogous patriarchal ideology based representations of male our bodies and behaviors used to be till 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 be able to speak with plants, animals and beings that no longer all people can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves by means of sharing her skills. together with her center packed with compassion, she indicates us that we're all hooked up to each other, irrespective 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 creation to the scope and pursuits of a box characterised by way of lively but additionally distinct scholarship in international locations with very diverse rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the diversities among and overlapping matters of chinese language and American students, as they learn children’s literature with admire to cultural metaphors and motifs, ancient hobbies, 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 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 concerning the nice advantages and negative dangers of our expanding dependence upon know-how in private and non-private existence.