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 past area century, it comes as no shock that gender experiences have centred predominantly on problems with girl illustration. The query of ways an identical 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 lady who's no longer so universal. she will be able to converse with plants, animals and beings that now not each person can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves through sharing her skills. along with her center packed with compassion, she indicates us that we're all hooked up to each other, regardless 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 us, this assortment presents an advent to the scope and targets of a box characterised by way of lively but additionally designated scholarship in nations with very diverse rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the variations among and overlapping issues of chinese language and American students, as they learn children’s literature with appreciate to cultural metaphors and motifs, old routine, 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 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 turning into a platform for a public dialog concerning the nice merits and negative dangers of our expanding dependence upon know-how in private and non-private lifestyles.