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

Given the vast influence of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the last area century, it comes as no shock that gender reviews have targeted predominantly on problems with girl illustration. The query of the way a similar patriarchal ideology dependent 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 lady who's no longer so universal. she will speak with plants, animals and beings that now not everybody can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves by way of sharing her talents. together with her center filled with compassion, she exhibits us that we're all attached 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 advent to the scope and ambitions of a box characterised by way of lively but additionally unique scholarship in nations with very assorted rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the diversities among and overlapping issues of chinese language and American students, as they research children’s literature with appreciate to cultural metaphors and motifs, historic routine, 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 turning into a platform for a public dialog in regards to the nice advantages and bad dangers of our expanding dependence upon expertise in private and non-private lifestyles.