Children's & Teenage Literature Studies: General

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...

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...