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

Given the sizeable influence of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the last zone century, it comes as no shock that gender reports have centred predominantly on problems with woman illustration. The query of ways an identical patriarchal ideology based 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 converse with plants, animals and beings that no longer all people can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves via sharing her skills. together with her middle choked with compassion, she indicates us that we're all hooked up to each other, regardless of how various 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 targets of a box characterised by means of energetic but in addition designated scholarship in international locations with very various rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the variations among and overlapping issues of chinese language and American students, as they research children’s literature with appreciate to cultural metaphors and motifs, old events, 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 publication is a research 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 changing into a platform for a public dialog in regards to the nice advantages and poor dangers of our expanding dependence upon expertise in private and non-private existence.