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Children and Cultural Memory in Texts of Childhood
The essays in this collection address the relationship between children and cultural memory in texts both for and about young people. The collection overall is concerned with how …
Pinocchio, Puppets, and Modernity
This study assesses the significance of Pinocchio in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in addition to his status as the creature of a nineteenth century traversed by a …
Age in David Almond’s Oeuvre
In recent decades, age studies has started to emerge as a new approach to study children’s literature. This book builds on that scholarship but also significantly extends it by …
Rulers of Literary Playgrounds
Rulers of Literary Playgrounds: Politics of Intergenerational Play in Children’s Literature offers multifaceted reflection on interdependences between children and adults as they …
Family in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Family in Children's and Young Adult Literature is a comprehensive study of the family in Anglophone children’s and Young Adult literature from the early nineteenth century to the …
Speech and Silence in Contemporary Children’s Literature
Speech and Silence in Contemporary Children’s Literature brings a fresh perspective to a central literary question— Who speaks?— by examining a variety of represented silences. …
The Women Who Invented Twentieth-Century Children’s Literature
Publishing for children between 1930 and 1960 has been denigrated as a relatively fallow period for creativity and quality, certainly in comparison with the ‘golden ages’ of …
Children’s Literature in Place
Children’s Literature in Place: Surveying the Landscapes of Children’s Culture is an edited collection dedicated to individual, international, and interdisciplinary considerations …
Detective Fiction for Young Readers
Detective Fiction for Young Readers is an examination of contemporary mystery stories for children and young adults. This volume explores how the conventions, rules, and …
ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature
ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature analyzes novels by the acclaimed Chicana YA writers Jo Ann Yolanda Hernández, Isabel Quintero, Ashley Hope Pérez, Erika Sánchez, …
Dust Off the Gold Medal
The oldest and most prestigious children’s literature award, the Newbery Medal has since 1922 been granted annually by the American Library Association to the children’s book it …
The Figure of the Child in WWI American, British, and Canadian Children’s Literature
Over the past century, much attention has been paid to the literature written for adults in response to the First World War, but there has been comparatively little consideration …