Children's & Teenage Literature Studies: General

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

With a Preface and biographies from Jack Zipes, as well as the original illustrations by Violet Brunton, this collection of fairy tales originally ...

This book provides in-depth coverage of children's literature with integrated reading methods in a concise, accessible format. Johnson emphasizes t...

This book provides in-depth coverage of children's literature with integrated reading methods in a concise, accessible format. Johnson emphasizes t...

This volume offers a novel approach to exploring how literary response groups can be used as part of teacher education programs to help preservice ...

This anthology explores the multitude of evidence for recognisable fairy tales drawn from sources in the much older cultures of the ancient world, ...

An investigation of identity formation in children's literature, this book brings together children’s literature and recent critical concerns with ...

Demonstrating the aesthetic, cultural, political and intellectual diversity of children’s literature across the globe, The Routledge Companion to I...

This edited volume offers fresh perspectives on linguistic and cultural diversity in multilingual picturebooks, examining their potential to suppor...

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

Drawing on critical race theory, critical race feminism, critical multicultural analysis, and intertextuality this book examines how slavery is rep...

Educators who teach children’s literature at the college level as part of the pre-service experience seldom allocate enough space in the curriculum...

Literary sidekicks like Dr. Watson and Robin the Boy Wonder have not been the singular subject of a significant critical study—until now. Using you...

This is the first volume to consider the popular literary category of Early Readers – books written and designed for children who are just beginnin...

Educators who teach children’s literature at the college level as part of the pre-service experience seldom allocate enough space in the curriculum...

With a Preface and biographies from Jack Zipes, as well as the original illustrations by Kay Nielsen, this collection of fairy tales originally pub...

Bestselling historian Robert Lacey brings together 82 of our most beloved nursery rhymes in this beautiful gift book.Robert was inspired to create ...

Teen paperback series, routinely castigated or ignored by Young Adult librarians despite their popularity with young adults, should be considered f...

This basic textbook on the classifications and uses of children's literature in the elementary school is designed for pre-service teachers and unde...

Although L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published one hundred years ago, literary critics and historians continue to discover new a...

Fantasy conjures up images of witches, fairies, dark woods, magic wands and spells, time travel, ghosts, and dragons. Each of us defines fantasy in...

This resource provides teachers, librarians, parents, and others who work with children with an annotated bibliography of children's books that con...

With a Preface and biographies from Jack Zipes, as well as the original illustrations by Violet Brunton, this collection of fairy tales originally ...

This revised and updated edition provides children's and young adult librarians, teachers, literature classes, and library school classes with an a...

This study examines children's films from various critical perspectives, including those provided by classical and current film theory.

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...