Children's & Teenage Literature Studies: General

This book studies children’s and young adult literature of genocide since 1945, considering issues of representation and using postcolonial theory ...

Beatrix Potter was one of the inventors of the contemporary picture book, and her small novels published at the turn of the twentieth century are s...

Producing Children imagines the possibility, indeed the inevitability, of a creative relation between children as producers and consumers by revisi...

During the early colonial encounter, children's books were among the first kinds of literature produced by US writers introducing the new colony, i...

This book builds upon and contributes to the growing academic interest in feminism within the field of children's literature studies. Christie Wilk...

Engagements with Children’s and Young Adult Literature offers an accessible guide to studying Children’s and Young Adult (CYA) Literature, teaching...

Using a critical lens derived from ecopsychology and its praxis, ecotherapy, this book explores the relationships Madeleine L’Engle develops for he...

Originally published in 1939, Tobe is a children's book portraying the daily lives of an African American boy and his siblings on a small farm in r...

Virtually every famous nineteenth-century writer (Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson)— and many not so famous—wrote li...

Virtually every famous nineteenth-century writer (Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson)— and many not so famous—wrote li...

Outstanding Book of the Year Award, Children's Literature Association Often called the Golden Age of Children's Books, the years stretching from th...

Lucy Pearson’s lively and engaging book examines British children’s literature during the period widely regarded as a ’second golden age’. Drawing ...

Contributions by Carolina Alonso, Elena Avil's, Trevor Boffone, Christi Cook, Ella Diaz, Amanda Ellis, Cristina Herrera, Guadalupe García McCall, D...

Contributions by Carolina Alonso, Elena Avilés, Trevor Boffone, Christi Cook, Ella Diaz, Amanda Ellis, Cristina Herrera, Guadalupe García McCall, D...

Narrating Africa: George Henty and the Fiction of Empire offers a critique of colonialist discourse and focuses on George Henty's novels as a pro...

The book deals with the issue of the Holocaust in the Polish literature for children and adolescents. Drawing upon some of the leading Polish autho...

First Published in 2000. Over the last 30 years, growth in the popularity and provision of books for children has been remarkable. The quality and ...

"This readable and informative account . . . raises issues about the political and social intent of all children's literature. Essential." —ChoiceD...

This Book Thinks You’re a Maths Genius explores seven key areas of maths: geometry, space and volume, statistics, numbers and number patterns, code...

In the late 1950s, Ted Geisel took on the challenge of creating a book using only 250 unique first-grade words, something that aspiring readers wou...

Reading the Adolescent Romance provides an exhaustive study of the developments in young adult literature since the 1980s with a focus on Francine ...

This collection is the first to focus exclusively on twenty-first-century young adult Gothic fiction. The essays demonstrate how the contemporary r...

As Canada came to terms with its role as an independent nation following Confederation in 1867, there was a call for a literary voice to express th...

From the trials of families experiencing divorce, as in Anne Fine’s Madame Doubtfire, to the childcare problems highlighted in Jacqueline Wilson’s ...

Writing about the Holocaust and writing for young readers evoke two quite separate sets of concerns which are not always mutually compatible. The f...

In this volume, Jan Susina examines the importance of Lewis Carroll and his popular Alice books to the field of children’s literature. From a study...

The Oxford Handbook of Children's Literature is at once a literary history, an introduction to various theoretical perspectives and methodological ...

Since 1922, the Newbery Medal of Honor has been awarded to distinguished works of literature for children. Although African and African American ch...

In 1908, Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows was published to surprisingly little critical fanfare. But readers championed its cause, and Gra...

Following on the success of her first book The Bully in the Book and in the Classroom, C. J. Bott has written this sequel to help those who work wi...

Edith Nesbit is one of the greatest children's writers of the century. Her readers loved to think of her as a reassuringly aunt-like figure. This b...

Critical Approaches to Food in Children’s Literature is the first scholarly volume on the topic, connecting children's literature to the burgeoning...

Representing Agency in Popular Culture: Children and Youth on Page, Screen and In-Between addresses the intersection of children’s and youth’s agen...

The Second Edition of this practical and comprehensive resource offers a multitude of ways to incorporate literature into teaching and learning acr...

Once Upon a Time in a Different World, a unique addition to the celebrated Children’s Literature and Culture series, seeks to move discussions and ...

In Radical Reads, Joni Richards Bodart identified 101 young adult books that featured gritty, complex plots, focused on multidimensional characters...

The Oxford Handbook of Children's Literature is at once a literary history, an introduction to various theoretical perspectives and methodological ...

Adventure, fantasy, mystery/suspense—teens love genre fiction—and genre nonfiction! By focusing on the genres teens love, you'll find a great way t...