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

Given the enormous effect of feminism on children’s literature and tradition over the last sector century, it comes as no shock that gender stories have targeted predominantly on problems with woman illustration. The query of the way a similar patriarchal ideology established 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 woman who's now not so universal. she will be able to converse with plants, animals and beings that now not each person can see. She is helping others to be ok with themselves by means of sharing her skills. together with her middle filled 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 us, this assortment presents an advent to the scope and objectives of a box characterised by means of energetic but additionally unique scholarship in international locations with very assorted 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 appreciate to cultural metaphors and motifs, old routine, 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 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 concerning the nice advantages and bad hazards of our expanding dependence upon know-how in private and non-private lifestyles.