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

Given the monstrous impression of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the last region century, it comes as no shock that gender stories have concentrated predominantly on problems with lady illustration. The query of the way a similar patriarchal ideology dependent representations of male our bodies and behaviors was once until eventually very lately a marginal dialogue.

The Story of a Star (The Star Series)

An inspirational tale of a tender woman who's now not so universal. she will speak with plants, animals and beings that no longer all people can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves via sharing her talents. together with her middle filled with compassion, she exhibits 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 U.S., this assortment offers an creation to the scope and targets of a box characterised through lively but additionally precise scholarship in nations with very various rhetorical traditions. The volume’s 5 sections spotlight the variations among and overlapping matters of chinese language and American students, as they research children’s literature with appreciate to cultural metaphors and motifs, old pursuits, 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 publication 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 hazards of our expanding dependence upon know-how in private and non-private lifestyles.