Children's & Teenage Literature Studies: General

A smaller, cheaper edition of this acclaimed illustrated biography of Beatrix Potter. Respected biographer Sarah Gristwood discovers a life crisscr...

Long seen by writers as a vital political force of the nation, childrens literature has been an important means not only of mythologising a certain...

Harry Potter and Beyond explores J. K. Rowling's beloved best-selling series and its virtuoso reimagining of British literary traditions. Weaving t...

This work traces the concepts of initiation, transformation and rebirth though Beatrix Potter's personal writings and her children's fiction. He...

The rise of YA dystopian literature has seen an explosion of female protagonists who are stirring young people's interest in social and politica...

Tales featuring anthropomorphic animals have been around as long as there have been storytellers to spin them, from Aesop's Fables to Reynard th...

An examination of the numerous adaptations of Malory's Morte Darthur for children in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From the time when th...

The cultural impact of J.K. Rowlings Harry Potter series transformed a generation of young people into readers and fans, who were able to interact ...

The first edition of The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery was published in the 1980s, with fifty percent of the material removed to save space,...

A new account of the brilliant and prolific Danish writer whose works captivated readers across Europe Rarely does an American or European child gr...

A typical travel book takes readers along on a trip with the author, but a great travel book does much more than that, inviting readers along on a ...

The Nation and the Child Nation Building in Hebrew Childrens Literature, 19301970 is the first comprehensive study to investigate the active role ...

Three friends prepare for an alien invasion with aluminum foil, peanut butter, and science.When Art and his friendsRobbie, Jason, and Amyare having...

George MacDonalds Victorian fairy tales transformed the genre of fantasy. His work also shaped the next generation of both childrens literature and...

This rich survey of children's literature from the middle ages to the mid-nineteenth century features a remarkable variety of literary forms, inclu...

Published to mark the centenary of Roald Dahls (Welsh) birth, Roald Dahl: Wales of the Unexpected breaks new ground by revealing the place of Wales...

During World War I, as young men journeyed overseas to battle, American women maintained the home front by knitting, fundraising, and conserving...

After the success of How Did Long John Silver Lose His Leg?, Dennis Butts and Peter Hunt take their forensic lenses to more mysteries that have tro...

McFarland Companions to Young Adult Literature American novelist Gary Paulsen is best known for his young adult fiction, including bestsellers N...

A New York Times Bestseller There aren't many books more beloved than The Tale of Peter Rabbit and even fewer authors as iconic as Beatrix Potter. ...

The Children''s Book Review Index contains review citations to give your students and researchers access to reviewers'' comments and opinions on t...

Ghost stories play a prominent role in American childhood. Circulated around playgrounds and whispered in slumber parties, their history in America...

Contemporary children's picture books provide a rich domain for developing theory and analysis of visual meaning and its relation to accompanying v...

Edmund Spenser's vast epic poem The Faerie Queene is the most challenging masterpiece in early modern literature and is praised as the work most...