Children's & Teenage Literature Studies: General

The award-winning fiction of Katherine Paterson has, for decades, warmed the hearts of children and adults alike. From Bridge to Terabithia and Com...

Focuses on illustration and contains essays on why and how books were chosen, a list of all books in the three volumes, and predictions for future ...

The Phoenix Award of The Children's Literature Association annually honors a children's book first published twenty years earlier that deserves spe...

All children can benefit from building new friendships and repairing old ones. For the librarian, teacher, or parent who wishes to foster compassio...

Every child is entranced by the magic of story, regardless of national boundaries. Many of the most memorable childhood stories have their origins ...

The Poetics of Childhood investigates the sensibility of childhood and the ways writers try to recapture it. It explores the earliest conceptions ...

Rosemary Sutcliff has long been acclaimed for her historical novels, especially those about the early peoples of Britain. She was a master at recre...

The presence of the Past studies the interaction of heritage and fiction written for children over a 40 year period in Britain, exploring a range o...

New in paperback 2003. Here is a compilation of the best critical essays on this enduring classic. Selections focus on the many perspectives from w...

From the benighted Old Man with a Beard to the erudite Perpendicular Purple Polly, Edward Lear's world is inhabited by a bewildering variety of odd...

'No words can express the secret agony of my soul'. Dickens's tantalising hint alluding to his time at Warren's Blacking Factory remains a gnomic s...

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...

Printed poison. Pernicious stuff. Since the nineteenth century, these are some of the many concerned comments critics have made about media for chi...

This volume represents the current state of research on picture books and other adjacent hybrid forms of visual/verbal texts such as comics, graphi...

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...

Pete Hautman is an author who likes to tackle big ideas—from addiction and psychosis to the nature of belief and what the world is coming to—in his...

Printed poison. Pernicious stuff. Since the nineteenth century, these are some of the many concerned comments critics have made about media for chi...

Originally published in 1985. This is a fascinating account of the life cycle of a minor literary genre, the boys’ school story. It discusses early...

Since the "Automatic Binding Bricks" that LEGO produced in 1949, and the LEGO "System of Play" that began with the release of Town Plan No. 1 (1955...

Reading the Art in Caldecott Award Books is a practical and easy-to-use reference handbook explaining what makes the art in Caldecott Medal and Hon...

This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini...

Children, Childhood and Cultural Heritage explores how the everyday experiences of children, and their imaginative and creative worlds, are collect...

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

Exploring the ethical questions posed by, in, and about children’s literature, this collection examines the way texts intended for children raise q...

Reading the Art in Caldecott Award Books is a practical and easy-to-use reference handbook explaining what makes the art in Caldecott Medal and Hon...

In the second edition of The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation, David Whitley updates his 2008 book to reflect recent developments in Disney and D...

In a very short time, John Green has become an icon of young adult literature. His first novel, Looking for Alaska (2005) won the Michael Prinz awa...

This volume discusses the aesthetic and cognitive challenges of modern picturebooks from different countries, such as Denmark, France, Germany, Nor...

Soon Come Home to This Island traces the representation of West Indian characters in British children's literature from 1700 to today. This book ch...

Since the "Automatic Binding Bricks" that LEGO produced in 1949, and the LEGO "System of Play" that began with the release of Town Plan No. 1 (1955...

Despite Kipling's popularity as an author and his standing as a politically controversial figure, much of his work has remained relatively unexamin...

Children, Childhood and Cultural Heritage explores how the everyday experiences of children, and their imaginative and creative worlds, are collect...

Focusing on his evocative and profound references to children and their stories, Children's Stories and 'Child-Time' in the Works of Joseph Cornell...

Lucy Pearson’s lively and engaging book examines British children’s literature during the period widely regarded as a ’second golden age’. Drawing ...

Four British Fantasists explores the work of four of the most successful and influential fantasy writers of the generation who rose to prominence i...

"Picturebook," spelled as a single word to identify its unique qualities and to differentiate the genre from other books with illustrations, is one...

Knights and ladies, giants and dragons, tournaments, battles, quests and crusades are commonplace in stories for children. This book examines ho...

Although William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language, he traditionally receives little notice in studi...

Through the window of multicultural literature, we are allowed to enter worlds not physically open to us—to view, to empathize, and to participate ...

Named the #1 Bestselling Non-Fiction Title by the Calgary Herald To camp means to occupy a place and/or time provisionally or under special circums...

Edited by Peter Hunt, a leading figure in the field, this book introduces the study of children’s literature, addressing theoretical questions as w...

This book provides a wealth of read-aloud titles and related activities that provide busy teachers with the tools to help students in grades K–12 b...

With the growing emphasis on theory in literary studies, psychoanalytic criticism is making notable contributions to literary interpretation. ...

Named the #1 Bestselling Non-Fiction Title by the Calgary Herald To camp means to occupy a place and/or time provisionally or under special circums...

While we owe much to twentieth and twenty-first century researchers’ careful studies of children’s linguistic and dramatic play, authors of literat...