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From Struwwelpeter to Peter Rabbit, from Alice to Bilbo--this collection of essays shows how the classics of children’s ......more
Few contemporary American writers have been subjected to as much laudatory abuse as Richard Brautigan who, having become......more
A unique literary and psycholoigcal perspective on the biographical aspect of Arthur Ransome’s children’s literature....more
Demonstrating the aesthetic, cultural, political and intellectual diversity of children’s literature across the globe, T......more
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Containing forty-eight chapters, The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks is the ultimate guide to picturebooks. It conta......more
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This collection of essays offers innovative methodological and disciplinary approaches to the intersection of Anglophone......more
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Paula loves to play with construction blocks, but her classmates don’t understand this and, even worse, they tease her f......more
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The stories we read as children shape us for the rest of our lives. But it is never too late to discover that transforma......more
Introduction: the Romantic cultures of infancy 1. ’A detached peninsula’: infancy in the work of Thomas De Quincey. Mart......more
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Metaphysics of Children’s Literature is the first sustained study of ways in which children’s literature confronts metap......more
In the early decades of the twenty-first century, we are grappling with the legacies of past centuries and their cascadi......more
What does ’queer’ have to do with children and young people and, in particular, with literature for them? How are sexual......more
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A fresh, sunlit invitation to a timeless hive of wonder. The Adventures Of Maya The Bee blends whimsy with wisdom, invit......more
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This collection works to rediscover and reassess a host of still little-known, pre-1914, Welsh women writers. This book ......more
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This collectionmerges representations of children and youth in various science fiction texts with childhood studies theo......more
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This book analyzes iconic British children’s literature through the lens of formal educational theory, policy, and pract......more
Contributions by Megan De Roover, Jennifer Harrison, Sarah Jackson, Zoe Jaques, Nada Kujundzic, Ivana Milkovic, Niall Na......more
Contributions by Megan De Roover, Jennifer Harrison, Sarah Jackson, Zoe Jaques, Nada Kujundzic, Ivana Milkovic, Niall Na......more
Literary critics and authors have long argued about the importance or unimportance of an author’s relationship to reader......more
Literary critics and authors have long argued about the importance or unimportance of an author’s relationship to reader......more
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An overview of the cultural transmission of the Arabian Nights within nineteenth-century Britain An overview of the cult......more
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In the context of changing constructs of home and of childhood since the mid-twentieth century, this book examines disco......more
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In the late 1950s, Ted Geisel took on the challenge of creating a book using only 250 unique first-grade words, somethin......more
In the late 1950s, Ted Geisel took on the challenge of creating a book using only 250 unique first-grade words, somethin......more
Children’s Literature and Intergenerational Relationships: Encounters of the Playful Kind explores ways in which childre......more
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Representing Agency in Popular Culture addresses the intersection of child and youth agency and popular culture. Here, s......more
Contributions by Malin Alkestrand, Joshua Yu Burnett, Sean P. Connors, Jill Coste, Meghan Gilbert-Hickey, Miranda A. Gre......more
Contributions by Malin Alkestrand, Joshua Yu Burnett, Sean P. Connors, Jill Coste, Meghan Gilbert-Hickey, Miranda A. Gre......more
Chapter 1: Reading Alcott’s Textual Childhood.- Chapter 2: ’We really lived most of it’: The Trouble with Autobiography.......more
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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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During the early colonial encounter, children’s books were among the first kinds of literature produced by US writers in......more
During the early colonial encounter, children’s books were among the first kinds of literature produced by US writers in......more
A Little Princess, a 1905 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, began as a short story, but due to its popularity, Burnett e......more
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This book investigates major linguistic transformations in the translation of children’s literature, focusing on the Eng......more
Contributions by Aneesh Barai, Clémentine Beauvais, Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Terri Doughty, Aneta Dybska, Blanka Grzeg......more
Metaphysics of Children’s Literature is the first sustained study of ways in which children’s literature confronts metap......more
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Contributions by Aneesh Barai, Clémentine Beauvais, Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Terri Doughty, Aneta Dybska, Blanka Grzeg......more
Introduces key terms, global concepts, debates, and histories for Children’s Literature in an updated edition Over the p......more