Children's & Teenage Literature Studies: General

This volume will be a critical anthology of primary texts whose main audience was children and/or adolescents in the medieval period. Texts will in...

Examining nineteenth-century British hymns for children, Alisa Clapp-Itnyre argues that the unique qualities of children's hymnody created a space ...

In this new collection, children’s literature scholars from twelve different countries contribute to the ongoing debate on the importance of pictur...

In her extensively researched exploration of China in British children’s literature, Shih-Wen Chen provides a sustained critique of the reductive d...

Taking up the understudied relationship between the cultural history of childhood and media studies, this volume traces twentieth-century migration...

Brown Gold is a compelling history and analysis of African-American children's picturebooks from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. At the ...

The picturebook is now recognized as a sophisticated art form that has provided a space for some of the most exciting innovations in the field of c...

Representing Africa in Children’s Literature explores how African and Western authors portray youth in contemporary African societies, critically e...

Winner of the Children’s Literature Association Edited Book AwardFrom the jaded, wired teenagers of M.T. Anderson's Feed to the spirited young rebe...

The Outside Child, In and Out of the Book is situated at the intersection between children’s literature studies and childhood studies. In this prov...

At the same time that 1970s feminist psychoanalytic theorists like Jean Baker Miller and Nancy Chodorow were challenging earlier models that assume...

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...

How did the 'flat' characters of eighteenth-century children's literature become 'round' by the mid-nineteenth? While previous critics have pointed...

This is the fourth volume sponsored by the United States Board on Books for Young People, following Children's Books from Other Countries (1998), T...

The Routledge Companion to Children’s Literature is a vibrant and authoritative exploration of children’s literature in all its manifestations. It ...

Taking up the various conceptions of heroism that are conjured in the Harry Potter series, this collection examines the ways fictional heroism in t...

In this new collection, children’s literature scholars from twelve different countries contribute to the ongoing debate on the importance of pictur...

This landmark volume is the first to bring together leading scholarship on children’s and young adult literature from three intersecting discipline...

In this book Honeyman looks at manifestations of youth agency (and representations of agency produced for youth) as depicted in fairy tales, childl...

Examining young adult vampire fiction and how it fits in both the contemporary and classic vampire canon, the book's analysis begins with a primer ...

Women have always been involved in war; a fact that has generally been acknowledged, but not always documented. The importance of the availability ...

All too often, attention is paid only to those children's novels that were written in English, with non-English-language works being passed over an...

Professional development activities have proven adequate to facilitate mastery of new content, inform teachers of best practice, and for disseminat...

This study provides a qualitative exploration of juvenile biographies of women, a genre defined here as a book dealing with the whole or partial li...

Representing Africa in Children’s Literature explores how African and Western authors portray youth in contemporary African societies, critically e...

Black Authors and Illustrators of Books for Children and Young Adults is a biographical dictionary that provides comprehensive coverage of all majo...

Celebrates the accomplishments of YA authors acclaimed for producing high-quality comedies, who have not yet been treated in a book-length bio-crit...

"Patterns of sublimation begin in childhood. So does binary and hierarchical thinking. The child must be trained to see in oppositions and on a sca...

Talking-animal tales have conveyed anticruelty messages since the 18th-century beginnings of children's literature. Yet only in the modern perio...

This collection of essays focuses on the girl sleuth, made famous by Nancy Drew but also characterized by other famous detectives like Cherry Am...

When moviegoers accompany Dorothy through the gates of the Emerald City, they may think they have discovered all there is to see of Oz - but as rea...

Folktales and fairy tales are living stories; as part of the oral tradition, they change and evolve as they are retold from generation to generatio...

Elie Wiesel is a master storyteller with the ability to use storytelling as a form of activism. From his landmark memoir Night to his novels and...

This book offers insights into the translation and adaptation of illustrated texts in an era in which visual texts are perceived as a dominant perc...

Nearly all of the Gadsden County's student body is black and considered economically disadvantaged, the highest percentage of any school distric...