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Exploring a range of international works such as films, streaming television series, a graphic novel, and a picture book......more

Exploring the history of Cold War censorship legislation and its impact on the French publishing industry for children, ......more

This collection specifically and solely focuses on Young Adult literature texts where cancer plays a prominent role, inc......more

Investigating the widespread but understudied presence of the Persephone myth within 21st-century young adult literature......more

The first English-language study on contemporary Chinese children’s literature, focusing on the theoretical framing of a......more

Facing Uncertain Futures: The Transformative Possibilities of Latinx Youth Literatures challenges the notion that the fu......more

Facing Uncertain Futures: The Transformative Possibilities of Latinx Youth Literatures challenges the notion that the fu......more

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Unearthing the ethical entanglements of early children’s books with the Atlantic slave economy. What ethical lessons are......more

Explores the educational potential of empathy in literary studies, offering interdisciplinary readings of popular texts ......more

Drawing on a wealth of material from children’s periodicals from the Victorian era to the early twentieth century, Krist......more

Uranian Children’s Literature and the Early Gay Movement in England: The Romance of Youth considers how writers associat......more

Children’s literature is a rapidly expanding and ever-evolving field, so this research guide is devoted to the specialis......more

Children’s literature is a rapidly expanding and ever-evolving field, so this research guide is devoted to the specialis......more

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Harry Potter, Psychoanalysis, and the Unconscious studies the Harry Potter series through the lens of psychoanalysis foc......more

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This groundbreaking volume delves into a diverse selection of trans-themed children’s and adolescent literature publishe......more

This handbook provides a comprehensive review of the research and practice of engaging with children’s and young adult l......more

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From Peter Rabbit to Mrs. Tiggy-winkle, The Tailor of Gloucester to The Fairy Caravan, the works and characters of Beatr......more

Applying the approach of ’reading-as-a-writer’ to the craft of writing for young people, this textbook combines critical......more

Applying the approach of ’reading-as-a-writer’ to the craft of writing for young people, this textbook combines critical......more

Originally published in 1992, Music in English Children’s Drama of the Later Renaissance is the first book-length study ......more

This book explores the ways that figures of Black children and writing for them articulate complex and contested notions......more

Food Places in Children’s Literature analyses how food, place and social interactions are intertwined in children’s and ......more

Susana S. Martínez’s Coming of Age(ncy) on the Migrant Trail maps the contours of agency in young adult literature invol......more

Susana S. Martínez’s Coming of Age(ncy) on the Migrant Trail maps the contours of agency in young adult literature invol......more

Little did newly-elected Russian President Vladimir Putin know that, as soon as he came to power, he would be sharing th......more

Gold on the Horizon is an enthralling companion for readers revisiting C. S. Lewis’s classic Narnia tales Prince Caspian......more

This book examines well-known poetry, picture books, and multimodal texts to explore how visual and literary texts shape......more

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This book compares the interrelationship of Irish writer James Joyce’s literary works and specific Nordic literature in ......more

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This open access book presents fresh archival evidence to explore the underexamined manuscript cultures of girls living ......more

This book examines representations of precocity in Victorian textual culture - canonical literature, children’s fiction,......more

Whether watching Studio Ghibli adaptations of British children’s books, visiting Harry Potter sites in Britain or eating......more

Producing Children imagines the possibility, indeed the inevitability, of a creative relation between children as produc......more

This book takes up the task of mapping discursive shifts in the representation of disability in dystopian youth texts ac......more

This book examines how aspects of gender and identity are represented in some of the best-selling children’s book series......more

Explores how contemporary issues of social justice and social change are represented, examined and interrogated in moder......more

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Immigration is at once a personal, immediate, and urgent issue that plays a central role in the United States’ perceptio......more

Immigration is at once a personal, immediate, and urgent issue that plays a central role in the United States’ perceptio......more

In Literature for Little Bodhisattvas, Natasha Heller makes two key interventions: first, she argues that picturebooks a......more

Whether watching Studio Ghibli adaptations of British children’s books, visiting Harry Potter sites in Britain or eating......more

"Between 1967 and 1972 at least thirty anthologies by African American, Latinx, Asian American, and Native American chil......more

This illustrated series covers more than 600 writers and illustrators for children and young adults, including such nota......more

An easy-to-use source for librarians, students and other researchers, each volume of this series provides illustrated bi......more

This illustrated series covers more than 600 writers and illustrators for children and young adults, including such nota......more

With the research of German-language children’s and youth literature and its media associations in the period from 1900 ......more

An easy-to-use source for librarians, students and other researchers, each volume of this series provides illustrated bi......more

Storying Plants in Australian Children’s and Young Adult Literature: Roots and Winged Seeds explores cultural and histor......more

This exceptional volume celebrates one of the greatest heroes in world cultural heritage: the Little Prince. Created in ......more

An easy-to-use source for librarians, students and other researchers, each volume of this series provides illustrated bi......more

This collection explores the significance of New York City in children’s literature, stressing literary, political, and ......more

Bringing together children’s literature scholars from China and the United States, this collection provides an introduct......more

This book examines the ways in which questions of identity, belonging, and exclusion have been explored in British child......more

This illustrated series covers more than 600 writers and illustrators for children and young adults, including such nota......more

Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoods explores the construction of the child and the development of texts ......more

An easy-to-use source for librarians, students and other researchers, each volume of this series provides illustrated bi......more

This comprehensive guide explores the importance of age-appropriate content and demonstrates how children’s books can sh......more

An easy-to-use source for librarians, students and other researchers, each volume of this series provides illustrated bi......more

Victorian Verse: The Poetics of Everyday Life casts new light on nineteenth-century poetry by examining the period throu......more

"While adult concern about gender in children’s books has made recent headlines, this discussion is far from new. As Gre......more

While adult concern about gender in children’s books has made recent headlines, this discussion is far from new. As Greg......more

An easy-to-use source for librarians, students and other researchers, each volume of this series provides illustrated bi......more

This illustrated series covers more than 600 writers and illustrators for children and young adults, including such nota......more

This illustrated series covers more than 600 writers and illustrators for children and young adults, including such nota......more

An easy-to-use source for librarians, students and other researchers, each volume of this series provides illustrated bi......more

An easy-to-use source for librarians, students and other researchers, each volume of this series provides illustrated bi......more

Since the publication of the first children’s periodical in the 1750s, magazines have been an affordable and accessible ......more

"The Lost Art of Reading" by Gerald Stanley Lee, published in 1902, is a thought-provoking exploration of the importance......more