F.A.T.C.A.T. is the story of Teddy and his Feline Crime Fighting Team. Teddy and his cats used their crime fighting skil......more

Examines the ways in which writers and artists have attempted to address children’s experience of atrocity. Atrocity pre......more

Historical and Cultural Transformations of Russian Childhood is a collection of multidisciplinary scholarly essays on ch......more

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Contributions by Miranda A. Green-Barteet, Kathleen Kellett, Andrew McInnes, Joyce McPherson, Rebecca Mills, Cristina Ri......more

Contributions by Miranda A. Green-Barteet, Kathleen Kellett, Andrew McInnes, Joyce McPherson, Rebecca Mills, Cristina Ri......more

An International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL) Honour Book for 2023 This book is a comprehensive an......more

Shows language teachers how to use children’s and young adult literature in primary and secondary schools to promote cri......more

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Gross explores our complex fascination with uncanny children in works of fiction. Ranging from Victorian to modern works......more

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

The Shelf2Life Children’s Literature and Fiction Collection is a charming set of pre-1923 nursery rhymes, fairy tales, c......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

The Shelf2Life Children’s Literature and Fiction Collection is a charming set of pre-1923 nursery rhymes, fairy tales, c......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

The Shelf2Life Children’s Literature and Fiction Collection is a charming set of pre-1923 nursery rhymes, fairy tales, c......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

The Shelf2Life Children’s Literature and Fiction Collection is a charming set of pre-1923 nursery rhymes, fairy tales, c......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

Publishing for children between 1930 and 1960 has been denigrated as a relatively fallow period for creativity and quali......more

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Contributions by Jani L. Barker, Rudine Sims Bishop, Julia S. Charles-Linen, Paige Gray, Dianne Johnson-Feelings, Jonda ......more

Contributions by Jani L. Barker, Rudine Sims Bishop, Julia S. Charles-Linen, Paige Gray, Dianne Johnson-Feelings, Jonda ......more

This edited volume explores how success is conceptualized and represented in texts for young people in Asia. The essays ......more

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The first study of life narratives produced for, about, and written by children, this book examines the recent popularit......more

This book is a critical introduction to J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, but it also advances an argument about the novel in......more

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Jane Newland explores how Deleuzian concepts can enhance and invigorate our readings of this literature, whose implied r......more

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

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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Exploring a history of activists writing for and about children of colour from abolition to Black Lives Matter, this ope......more

This book is a series of readings of phenomenological texts and novels for children that carves out an interdisciplinary......more

Mommy, I’m Okay! follows 7-year-old Melissa a.k.a. Moe as she battles cancer. She’s simply trying to understand her diag......more

Disney - This name stands not only for a company that has had global reach from its early days, but also for a successfu......more

Didactics and the Modern Robinsonade examines modern and contemporary Robinsonade texts written for young readers, looki......more

Shakespearean Spaces in Australian Literary Adaptations for Children and Young Adults offers a comprehensive examination......more

Youth Fiction and Trans Representation is the first book that wholly addresses the growth of trans and gender variant re......more

This open access book is a unique study of the impact of lived experience on literate life, exploring how children’s rea......more

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A COMPANION TO CHILDREN’S LITERATURE A collection of international, up-to-date, and diverse perspectives on children’s l......more

Harry Potter and the Myth of Millennials takes an interdisciplinary view of Harry Potter, as a series and a phenomenon, ......more

Contributions by Christina M. Chica, Kathryn Coto, Sarah Park Dahlen, Preethi Gorecki, Tolonda Henderson, Marcia Hernand......more

This is a story of a small town that has all of the locations and heart of a big city with a few additional land marks t......more

A comet in the mounting firmament of third-world, non-white, female writers, Edwidge Danticat stands apart. An accomplis......more

This important study affirms that Latinx children and young adults are uniquely positioned to change the world. Using Gl......more

Animals, Museum Culture and Children’s Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Curious Beasties explores the relations......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

Winner, 2024 Children’s Literature Association Book Award The monstrous has a long, complicated history within children’......more

Winner, 2024 Children’s Literature Association Book Award The monstrous has a long, complicated history within children’......more

Contributions by Lauren R. Carmacci, Keridiana Chez, Kate Glassman, John Granger, Marie Schilling Grogan, Beatrice Grove......more

In The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books, Jennifer Miller identifies an archive of over 150 En......more

In The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books, Jennifer Miller identifies an archive of over 150 En......more

Originally published in 1982, this volume follows others in the series. By looking at the word frequency table, the user......more

Originally published in 1979, this concordance consists of a Verbal Index listing the location of all words used by Conr......more

Memorable children’s narratives immerse readers in imaginary worlds that bring them into the story. Some of these places......more

A feast for any lover of English children’s books. -Christian Herald Over sixty years ago, Joan Bodger, her husband, and......more

Children’s Literature and Intergenerational Relationships: Encounters of the Playful Kind explores ways in which childre......more

This novel by Alexander Dumas pere, published in French as Les Trois Mousquetaires in 1844. It is a historical romance a......more

Heidi is a book of children’s fiction published in 1881 by Swiss writer Johanna Spyri. It was initially published in two......more

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Equipping Space Cadets: Primary Science Fiction for Young Children argues for the benefits and potential of "primary sci......more

Richmal Crompton, Author of Just William: A Literary Life celebrates the first two William books, Just William (1922) an......more

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