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

Given the significant impression of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the last region century, it comes as no shock that gender reports have targeted predominantly on problems with girl illustration. The query of the way an analogous patriarchal ideology established 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 no longer so universal. she will be able to speak with plants, animals and beings that now not each person can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves via sharing her talents. along with her middle choked with compassion, she exhibits 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 USA, this assortment presents an advent to the scope and pursuits of a box characterised through energetic but in addition specified scholarship in international locations with very diversified 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, old activities, 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 learn 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 bad hazards of our expanding dependence upon know-how in private and non-private lifestyles.