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

Given the massive effect of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the past area century, it comes as no shock that gender reviews have concentrated predominantly on problems with girl illustration. The query of ways a similar patriarchal ideology based 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 converse 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 talents. together with her center packed with compassion, she indicates us that we're all attached 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 U.S., this assortment presents an creation to the scope and ambitions of a box characterised by means of energetic but in addition specified scholarship in international locations with very varied rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the diversities among and overlapping matters of chinese language and American students, as they study children’s literature with recognize to cultural metaphors and motifs, old activities, authorship, didacticism, very important 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 examine 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 concerning the nice merits and negative dangers of our expanding dependence upon expertise in private and non-private existence.