Children's & Teenage Literature Studies: General

This collection offers a thorough treatment of the ways in which the verbal and visual semiotic modes interrelate toward promoting gender equality ...

Following scholarship on gender in science fiction, this book explores the limits of considering age as a social construction, positing that an ack...

Building on several years of research that included an examination of children's literature texts in 140 languages, Sandra Beckett introduces the r...

In his successful Creative Storytelling, Jack Zipes showed how storytelling is a rich and powerful tool for self-expression and for building childr...

Postmodern Fairy Tales seeks to understand the fairy tale not as children's literature but within the broader context of folklore and literary stud...

This book investigates the 'series' in children's literature. The works of several well-known children's authors - UK and the US, traditional and c...

Biography of Richmal Crompton

Children's Reading Choices discusses the reading habits of children aged between 10 and 14. The book reports the findings of the Children's Reading...

Drawing evidence from transatlantic literary texts of childhood as well as from nineteenth and early twentieth century children’s and family card, ...

This book builds upon and contributes to the growing academic interest in feminism within the field of children's literature studies. Christie Wilk...

This book is the first full-length critical study to explore the rapidly growing cadre of amateur-authored, independently-published, and niche-mark...

The tale of 'Cinderella' is told wherever stories are still read aloud and everyone is familiar with 'Rapunzel' and 'The Golden Goose', but who has...

In his successful Creative Storytelling, Jack Zipes showed how storytelling is a rich and powerful tool for self-expression and for building childr...

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

In this pioneering and timely book, Lampert examines the ways in which cultural identities are constructed within young adult and children’s litera...

This book investigates the 'series' in children's literature. The works of several well-known children's authors - UK and the US, traditional and c...

Shakespeare in Children’s Literature looks at the genre of Shakespeare-for-children, considering both adaptations of his plays and children’s novel...

Contemporary picturebooks open up spaces for philosophical dialogues between people of all ages. As works of art, picturebooks offer unique opportu...

Soviet literature in general and Soviet children’s literature in particular have often been labeled by Western and post-Soviet Russian scholars and...

Shakespeare in Children’s Literature looks at the genre of Shakespeare-for-children, considering both adaptations of his plays and children’s novel...

Critical Approaches to Food in Children’s Literature is the first scholarly volume on the topic, connecting children's literature to the burgeoning...

In this study, Charles Ferrall and Anna Jackson argue that the Victorians created a concept of adolescence that lasted into the twentieth century a...

While white racism has global dimensions, it has an unshakeable lease on life in South African political organizations and its educational system. ...

A concise but comprehensive overview of developments in children’s literature over the past 100 years.

This comprehensive bibliography includes books written about or set in Appalachia from the 18th century to the present. Titles represent the ent...

Containing forty-eight chapters, The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks is the ultimate guide to picturebooks. It contains a detailed introduction...

Thirteen essays explore the timeless appeal of Peter's antics, and the impact of this extraordinary book on children worldwide. Contributors, each ...

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

This volume examines a variety of utopian writing for children from the 18th century to the present day, defining and exploring this new genre in t...

Winner of the Children’s Literature Association Honor Book AwardThis volume establishes a dialogue between East and West in children’s literature s...

This volume offers a comprehensive critical and theoretical introduction to the genre of the fairy tale. It: explores the ways in which folklo...

The Child That Haunts Us focuses on the symbolic use of the child archetype through the exploration of miniature characters from the realms of chil...

This book situates the picturebook genre within the widespread international phenomenon of crossover literature, examining an international corpus ...

This edited volume explores how success is conceptualized and represented in texts for young people in Asia. The essays in this collection examine ...

The Fairy Tale World is a definitive volume on this ever-evolving field. The book draws on recent critical attention, contesting romantic ideas abo...

This study assesses the significance of Pinocchio in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in addition to his status as the creature of a ninete...