Bringing together scholars from musicology, literature, childhood studies, and theater, this volume examines the ways in......more

This volume provides a key analysis of Asian children’s literature and film and creates a dialogue between East and West......more

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Contributions by Megan Brown, Jill Coste, Sara K. Day, Rachel Dean-Ruzicka, Rebekah Fitzsimmons, Amber Gray, Roxanne Har......more

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This work traces the concepts of initiation, transformation and rebirth though Beatrix Potter’s personal writings and he......more

This second edition of Multicultural and Ethnic Children’s Literature in the United States describes the history and cha......more

This second edition of Multicultural and Ethnic Children’s Literature in the United States describes the history and cha......more

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Who is the proper occupant of the nursery? The obvious answer is the child, and not an archive, a seductive troll-prince......more

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Children s picturebooks are the very first books we encounter and play a major role in introducing us to both art and la......more

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Beginning with Rudyard Kipling and Edith Nesbit and concluding with best-selling series still ongoing at the time of wri......more

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While Romantic-era concepts of childhood nostalgia have been understood as the desire to retrieve the ephemeral mindset ......more

Drawing evidence from transatlantic literary texts of childhood as well as from nineteenth and early twentieth century c......more

This book is the first full-length critical study to explore the rapidly growing cadre of amateur-authored, independentl......more

This book makes a significant contribution to the burgeoning field of childhood studies in nineteenth-century literature......more

In the light of the complex demographic shifts associated with late modernity and the impetus of neo-liberal politics, c......more

Though popular opinion would have us see Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice F......more

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Whether a secularized morality, biblical worldview, or unstated set of mores, the Victorian period can and always will b......more

Contributions by Hena Ahmad, Linda Pierce Allen, Mary J. Henderson Couzelis, Sarah Park Dahlen, Lan Dong, Tomo Hattori, ......more

Poems written by children are not typically part of the literary canon. Because of cultural biases that frame young peop......more

Tales featuring anthropomorphic animals have been around as long as there have been storytellers to spin them, from Aeso......more

This monograph aims to counter the assumption that the anti-tale is a ’subversive twin’ or dark side of the fairy tale c......more

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Georges Perec’s Geographies isthe first book to offer a rounded picture of Georges Perec’s geographical writing....more

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This essay collection rediscovers and reassesses a host of still little-known, pre-1914, Welsh women writers. In the las......more

In the mid- to late 2000s, the United States witnessed a boom in dystopian novels and films intended for young audiences......more

Cultural Politics in Harry Potter: Life, Death and the Politics of Fear is the first book-length analysis of topics, suc......more

Cultural Politics in Harry Potter: Life, Death and the Politics of Fear is the first book-length analysis of topics, suc......more

The great Victorian Christian author George MacDonald is the wellspring of the modern fantasy genre. In this book Colin ......more

Reception studies have transformed the classics. Many more literary and cultural texts are now regarded as valid for c......more

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A beautifully illustrated exploration of how Victorian novelty picture books reshape the ways children read and interact......more

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Taking a genre approach, this overview of young adult literature shows new librarians and library science students the c......more

This practitioner-oriented introduction to literature for children ages 5-12 covers the latest trends, titles, and tools......more

This book highlights the multi-dimensionality of the work of British fantasy writer and Discworld creator Terry Pratchet......more

Contributions by Emily Anderson, Elif S. Armbruster, Jenna Brack, Christine Cooper-Rompato, Christiane E. Farnan, Melani......more

Named the #1 Bestselling Non-Fiction Title by the Calgary Herald To camp means to occupy a place and/or time provisional......more

Named the #1 Bestselling Non-Fiction Title by the Calgary Herald To camp means to occupy a place and/or time provisional......more

What, exactly, does one mean when idealizing tolerance as a solution to cultural conflict? This book examines a wide ran......more

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This volume focuses on the (de)canonization processes in children’s literature, considering the construction and cultura......more

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This volume represents the current state of research on picture books and other adjacent hybrid forms of visual/verbal t......more

This volume unpacks the cultural construction of transnational adoption and migration by examining a sample of recent ch......more

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The Embodied Child: Readings in Children’s Literature and Culture brings together essays that offer compelling analyses ......more

This book offers insights into the typically overlooked perspectives of children and children’s culture in Europe, North......more

This volume brings together diverse, cross-disciplinary scholarly voices to examine gender construction in children’s an......more

Bringing together new perspectives in childhood studies and animal studies, this book is the first collection to critica......more

Children’s book awards have mushroomed since the early twentieth-century and especially since the 1960s, when literary p......more

This is the first monograph that brings together the fields of Gothic Studies and children’s fiction to analyse a range ......more

This book examines the development of Chinese children’s literature from the late Qing to early Republican era. It highl......more

Eleanor Cameron (1912-1996) was an innovative and genre-defying author of children’s fiction and children’s literature c......more

Young adult literature uses literary sidekicks in new and exciting ways, which changes how sidekicks are understood. Thr......more

Racism is resilient, duplicitous, and endlessly adaptable, so it is no surprise that America is again in a period of civ......more

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Original artwork and materials explore children s literature and its impact in society and culture over time A favorite ......more

From the time when the writer J.T. Knowles first adapted Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur for a juvenile audience in 1862, ......more

The first book in modernist studies to bring detailed discussion of these four cities together. Breaks new ground in bei......more

This volume presents key contributions to the study of ecocriticism in Nordic children’s and YA literary and cultural te......more

Childhood books play a special role in reading histories, providing touchstones for our future tastes and giving shape t......more

Examines how film adaptations of children’s metafictions screen the book/film relationship in unique and important ways.......more