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

Given the vast impression of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the last zone century, it comes as no shock that gender reports have centred predominantly on problems with lady illustration. The query of ways an identical patriarchal ideology dependent 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 be able to 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. together with her center jam-packed with compassion, she exhibits us that we're all hooked up to each other, irrespective 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 U.S., this assortment offers an advent to the scope and targets of a box characterised by means of lively but additionally particular scholarship in nations 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 appreciate to cultural metaphors and motifs, historic events, 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 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 changing into a platform for a public dialog in regards to the nice advantages and poor dangers of our expanding dependence upon expertise in private and non-private lifestyles.