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

Given the large influence of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the past sector century, it comes as no shock that gender stories have centred predominantly on problems with lady illustration. The query of ways an identical patriarchal ideology dependent representations of male our bodies and behaviors used to be 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 converse with plants, animals and beings that now not all people can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves by way of sharing her talents. along with her center filled with compassion, she exhibits us that we're all hooked up to each other, regardless 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 U.S., this assortment presents an creation to the scope and pursuits of a box characterised through lively but additionally designated scholarship in international locations with very varied rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the diversities among and overlapping issues of chinese language and American students, as they study children’s literature with appreciate to cultural metaphors and motifs, old events, authorship, didacticism, very important 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 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 turning into a platform for a public dialog in regards to the nice merits and poor hazards of our expanding dependence upon expertise in private and non-private existence.