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

Given the great effect 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 ways a similar patriarchal ideology dependent 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 speak with plants, animals and beings that now not every body can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves by way of sharing her skills. together with her middle choked with compassion, she indicates us that we're all hooked up to each other, irrespective of how diversified 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 advent to the scope and targets of a box characterised by way of energetic but additionally special scholarship in international locations with very diverse rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the variations among and overlapping matters of chinese language and American students, as they learn children’s literature with recognize to cultural metaphors and motifs, historic hobbies, authorship, didacticism, vital issues, 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 ebook is a learn 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 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.