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

Given the mammoth effect of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the past region century, it comes as no shock that gender reviews have centred predominantly on problems with lady illustration. The query of ways a similar patriarchal ideology established representations of male our bodies and behaviors was once 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 be able to speak with plants, animals and beings that no longer every person can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves via sharing her talents. together with her center packed with compassion, she indicates us that we're all attached to each other, regardless 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 presents an creation to the scope and targets of a box characterised by way of lively but additionally unique scholarship in nations with very varied rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the variations among and overlapping matters of chinese language and American students, as they research children’s literature with admire to cultural metaphors and motifs, historic activities, authorship, didacticism, very important subject matters, 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 publication is a research of the evolving relationships among literature, our on-line world, and teenagers 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 concerning the nice advantages and poor dangers of our expanding dependence upon expertise in private and non-private existence.