Children's & Teenage Literature Studies: General

The simplicity of children's picture books--stories told with illustrations and a few well chosen words or none at all--makes them powerful tool...

Sumptuousa fitting legacy for a pioneering conservationist who helped save thousands of acres of the Lake District The Mail on Sunday, August 2016...

When creating her post-apocalyptic world of The Hunger Games, author Suzanne Collins drew from various real-world history and geography, particu...

Although there have been numerous books written about the fictional character, Nancy Drew, this book includes as analysis of Nancy Drew as a proto-...

Donna Jo Napoli has received acclaim for her young adult works and is especially known for her historical novels and her retellings of myth and fai...

This first-ever volume focusing on sports pulp fiction devoted to America's two most popular pastimes of the 1935-1957 era--baseball and footbal...

Memorable children's narratives immerse readers in imaginary worlds that bring them into the story. Some of these places have been constructed i...

Before she was a renowned children's author, J.K. Rowling was an educator. Her bestselling series, Harry Potter, places education at the forefront,...

Part of Alice's appeal is her ambiguity, which makes possible a range of interpretations in adapting Lewis Carroll's classic Wonderland stories ...

This beautiful children''s book retells the stories of the ancient world and brings history to life. Herodotus wrote the first history book in t...

On a summer's day in 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church College in Oxford, Charles Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics, photographed six-year-ol...

The last thirty years have witnessed one of the most fertile periods in the history of children's books: the flowering of imaginative illustration ...

_______________ A pocket-sized, unmissable essay on the importance of children''s literature by the bestselling and award-winning author, Kather...

As if they were motion picture stills, the images in this book make up a sequence of people and scenes of the Calle Junin, one of the best-known th...

This is a celebration of Michael's life as a master storyteller and illustrator told through his own autobiographical tales, diary extracts, origin...

Children's literature is an excellent way to educate children, on everything from social behavior and beliefs to attitudes toward education itse...