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

Given the huge influence of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the last sector century, it comes as no shock that gender experiences have targeted predominantly on problems with woman illustration. The query of ways a similar patriarchal ideology established 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 no longer so universal. she will be able to converse with plants, animals and beings that no longer everybody can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves by way of sharing her talents. along with her center jam-packed with compassion, she indicates us that we're all attached 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 USA, this assortment offers an creation to the scope and pursuits of a box characterised by way of lively but in addition exact scholarship in nations with very various rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the diversities among and overlapping issues of chinese language and American students, as they study children’s literature with recognize to cultural metaphors and motifs, ancient pursuits, 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 e-book is a examine 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 negative hazards of our expanding dependence upon expertise in private and non-private lifestyles.