Children's & Teenage Literature Studies: General

Contributions by María V. Acevedo-Aquino, Consuella Bennett, Florencia V. Cornet, Stacy Ann Creech, Zeila Frade, Ann González, Louise Hardwick, Bar...

Contributions by Kelly Blewett, Claudia Camicia, Alisa Clapp-Itnyre, Lisa Rowe Fraustino, Elisabeth Graves, Karlie Herndon, KaaVonia Hinton, Holly ...

In this collection of fourteen essays, Anne Scott MacLeod locates and describes shifts in the American concept of childhood as those changes are su...

Contributions by Jarrel De Matas, Summer Edward, Teófilo Espada-Brignoni, Pauline Franchini, Melissa García Vega, Dannabang Kuwabong, Amanda Eaton ...

Contributions by Kelly Blewett, Claudia Camicia, Alisa Clapp-Itnyre, Lisa Rowe Fraustino, Elisabeth Graves, Karlie Herndon, KaaVonia Hinton, Holly ...

Our language is full of 'sweet' terms to describe situations (‘a bittersweet moment’), things (‘popcorn brain’), behaviour (‘to have a sweet tooth’...

The Girl Sleuth is a book for anyone who fondly recalls her late-night adventures inside a bedspread cave with a flashlight, a handful of snitched ...

First Published in 1994. This series of books is aimed primarily at student and practising teachers. It covers key issues in current educational de...

In the twenty-first century, the influence of neoliberalism, the belief that society benefits when both individuals and corporations are free to ma...

Contributions by Sara Austin, Robert Bittner, J. Bradley Blankenship, Gabriel Duckels, Caitlin Howlett, Isabel Millán, Jennifer Miller, Kaylee Jang...

In the twenty-first century, the influence of neoliberalism, the belief that society benefits when both individuals and corporations are free to ma...

Contributions by Jarrel De Matas, Summer Edward, Teófilo Espada-Brignoni, Pauline Franchini, Melissa García Vega, Dannabang Kuwabong, Amanda Eaton ...

childhood in general and education in particular is the quality and care of the relationships a child forms. Love to Learn shows how to build and ...

Between Generations is a multidisciplinary volume that reframes children as powerful forces in the production of their own literature and culture b...

Contributions by María V. Acevedo-Aquino, Consuella Bennett, Florencia V. Cornet, Stacy Ann Creech, Zeila Frade, Ann González, Louise Hardwick, Bar...

Children's classics from Alice in Wonderland to the works of Astrid Lindgren, Roald Dahl, J.K. Rowling and Philip Pullman are now generally recogni...

""I cast 'moral' and 'Sunday School' ideals to the winds and made my 'Anne' a real human girl"". L. M. MontgomeryIn 2008, Anne fans everywhere cele...

Appearing first as a weekly serial in The Christian Herald, Eleanor H. Porter's Pollyanna was first published in book form in 1913. This popular st...

A significant body of scholarship examines the production of children's literature by women and minorities, as well as the representation of gender...

"Over the Rainbow is lively, engaging, and thoughtful. More to the point, the field of children's literature needs such a collection."---Katherine ...

A significant body of scholarship examines the production of children's literature by women and minorities, as well as the representation of gender...

Praise for Nancy Willard"Willard's invention and lyricism, the splash of her wit, the glancing slyness of her dialogue, all have the fresh breath o...

Exam Board: AQA Level: GCSE Grade 9-1 Subject: English Literature ...

"Over the Rainbow is lively, engaging, and thoughtful. More to the point, the field of children's literature needs such a collection."---Katherine ...

Harry Potter’s global triumph is without precedent. Economically it is the most successful children’s book ever published and at the same time it h...

Inklings nannte sich eine Gruppe von Schriftstellern und Geisteswissenschaftlern in Oxford, deren bekannteste Mitglieder J.R.R. Tolkien und C.S. Le...

Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts entdeckte die Literatur die Steinzeit. Doch erst in den letzten Jahren wurden die bis heute populären prähistorischen Rom...

Racially mixed children make up the fastest growing youth demographic in the U.S., and teachers of diverse populations need to be mindful in select...

Dr. Seuss's classic character the Lorax has delighted children for decades while passing along a powerful message about environmental responsibilit...

Can fairy tales subvert consumerism? Can fantasy and children's literature counter the homogenizing influence of globalization? Can storytellers re...

Eclectic library reading programs for young children have blossomed across the nation over the last decade, encouraging in toddlers a fondness for ...

This book considers how contemporary British children’s books engage with some of the major cultural debates of recent years, and how they resonate...

In the last few decades, scholars have turned their attention to constructions of masculinity and its influence on expressions of nationality and c...

This book studies children’s and young adult literature of genocide since 1945, considering issues of representation and using postcolonial theory ...

Colonial India in Children’s Literature is the first book-length study to explore the intersections of children’s literature and defining historica...

Since the 1980s novels about childhood for adults have been a booming genre within the contemporary British literary market. Childhood in the Conte...

This book analyzes American Indian characters and themes in young adult literature, outlining plots and evaluating content from a native perspectiv...

This study is concerned with how readers are positioned to interpret the past in historical fiction for children and young adults. Looking at liter...

This collection seeks to understand the long-lasting and global appeal of Tarzan: Why is a story about a feral boy, who is raised by apes in the Af...

Concurrent with increasing scholarly attention toward national children’s literatures, Contemporary English-language Indian Children’s Literature e...

Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children’s Literature examines distinguished classics of children’s literature both old and new—in...

Who is the proper occupant of the nursery? The obvious answer is the child, and not an archive, a seductive troll-princess, or poor fosterlings. Ne...