Children's & Teenage Literature Studies: General

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...