Children's & Teenage Literature Studies: General

Winner of the Children’s Literature Association Book AwardThis book visits a range of textual forms including diary, novel, and picturebook to expl...

The widespread threat of terrorist and counter-terrorist violence in the twenty-first century has created a globalized context for social interacti...

This book explores Grahame’s engagements with classical antiquity in The Wind in the Willows, including ancient epic, parody (Batrachomyomachia), a...

First published in 1992, this book will be an invaluable help to librarians, teachers and parents looking for quality information books for childre...

From the forests of the tales of the Brothers Grimm to Enid Blyton’s The Faraway Tree, from the flowers of Cicely May Barker’s fairies to the treeh...

This text offers 6th - 12th grade educators guided instructional approaches for including diverse young adult (YA) literature in the classroom as a...

This study examines the children’s books of three extraordinary British writers—J.K. Rowling, Diana Wynne Jones, and Terry Pratchett—and investigat...

First published in 1992, this book will be an invaluable help to librarians, teachers and parents looking for quality information books for childre...

This volume explores the mutual influences between children’s literature and the avant-garde. Olson places particular focus on fin-de-siècle Paris,...

Out of Reach: The Ideal Girl in American Girls’ Serial Literature traces the journey of the ideal girl through American girls’ series in the twenti...

The book draws from literary, psychological, and sociological perspectives to discuss and to illustrate how these perspectives contribute to instru...

The book draws from literary, psychological, and sociological perspectives to discuss and to illustrate how these perspectives contribute to instru...

A modern-day Taming of the Shrew that concludes at a high school prom. An agoraphobic Olivia from Twelfth Night sending video dispatches from her b...

Drawing on a dynamic set of "graphic texts of girlhood," Elizabeth Marshall identifies the locations, cultural practices, and representational stra...

Racially mixed children make up the fastest growing youth demographic in the U.S., and teachers of diverse populations need to be mindful in select...

This text offers 6th - 12th grade educators guided instructional approaches for including diverse young adult (YA) literature in the classroom as a...

The ‘golden age’ of children’s literature in the late 19th and early 20th century coincided with a boom in the production and trade of commodities....

The essays in this collection address the relationship between children and cultural memory in texts both for and about young people. The collectio...

Teaching Literature-Based Instructional Units: From Planning to Assessment provides an accessible roadmap to planning, designing, and implementing ...

Teaching Literature-Based Instructional Units: From Planning to Assessment provides an accessible roadmap to planning, designing, and implementing ...

‘The Right Thing to Read’: A History of Australian Girl-Readers, 1910-1960 explores the reading habits, identity, and construction of femininity of...

Virginia Euwer Wolff 's profoundly moving young adult literature includes the explorations of mental slowness in Probably Nick Swansen, musical gif...

Offering both a short history and a theoretical framework, this book is the first extended study of the soundtracked book as a media form. A soundt...

Originally published in 1981. Many of the classics of children’s literature were produced in the Victorian period. But Alice in Wonderland and The ...

Now available in paperback! Until now, there was no theoretical research of character in children's fiction and very few comprehensive theoretical ...

From the forests of the tales of the Brothers Grimm to Enid Blyton’s The Faraway Tree, from the flowers of Cicely May Barker’s fairies to the treeh...

Whether a secularized morality, biblical worldview, or unstated set of mores, the Victorian period can and always will be distinguished from those ...

First published in 1998, this volume explores how the genre of school stories had become firmly established by the turn of the twentieth century, h...

Family in Children's and Young Adult Literature is a comprehensive study of the family in Anglophone children’s and Young Adult literature from the...

In his 1908 cultural and historical study of homosexuality titled The Intersexes: A History of Similisexualism as a Problem in Social Life, Edward ...

The astonishing success of J.K. Rowling and other contemporary children's authors has demonstrated how passionately children can commit to the book...

From treating a bee sting to building an overnight shelter, kids will gain the knowledge and confidence they need to survive outdoors. All ages

Each of these volumes explores five popular genres and shows how they can be used to promote learning in the library and classroom. After introduct...

Even though we instruct our children not to lie, the truth is that lying is a fundamental part of children’s development—socially, cognitively, emo...

Beyond Pinocchio is a meticulous examination of renowned author Carlo Collodi’s primers and his debunking Italian bourgeois propaganda ‘from within...

This chronological guide to the developmental stages, and corresponding literary needs and preferences, of early childhood is hte unique result of ...

In 18th through 20th-century British and American literature, school stories always play out the power relationships between adult and child. They ...

Through critical textual analysis of the trauma narratives for young readers written in English on political conflicts and the violation of humanit...

Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction examines the representation of selfhood in adolescent and children's fiction, using a Bakhtinian appro...

Raising key questions about race, class, sexuality, age, material culture, intellectual history, pedagogy, and gender, this book explores the myria...

This book introduces the major works and debates in Chinese children's literature within the framework of China's revolution and modernization. It ...

What happens to traditional stories when they are retold in another time and cultural context and for a different audience? This first-of-its-kind ...

This book introduces the major works and debates in Chinese children's literature within the framework of China's revolution and modernization. It ...

In The Children’s Book Business, Lissa Paul constructs a new kind of book biography. By focusing on Eliza Fenwick’s1805 product-placement novel, Vi...

This is an irresistible and unique anthology of fairy tales written by some of the most notable writers of the Victorian period, including Charles ...

First Published in 1997. Happily Ever After is Jack Zipes's latest work on the fairy tale. Moving from the Renaissance to the present, and between...