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‘The Right Thing to Read’
‘The Right Thing to Read’: A History of Australian Girl-Readers, 1910-1960 explores the reading habits, identity, and construction of femininity of Australian girls aged between …
Gender(ed) Identities
This volume brings together diverse, cross-disciplinary scholarly voices to examine gender construction in children's and young adult literature. It complements and updates the …
Translation Under State Control
In this book, Gaby Thomson-Wohlgemuth explores the effects of ideology on the English-to-German translation of children’s literature under the socialist regime of the former German …
Voices of the Other
This book offers a variety of approaches to children's literature from a postcolonial perspective that includes discussions of cultural appropriation, race theory, pedagogy as a …
Inventing the Child
Now in paperback, Inventing the Child is a highly entertaining, humorous, and at times acerbic account of what it means to be a child (and a parent) in America at the dawn of the …
Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults
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 the field of children's …
Children's Fiction about 9/11
In this pioneering and timely book, Lampert examines the ways in which cultural identities are constructed within young adult and children’s literature about the attacks of …
More Words about Pictures
This volume represents the current state of research on picture books and other adjacent hybrid forms of visual/verbal texts such as comics, graphic novels, and book apps, with a …
Twice-Told Children's Tales
It is only in childhood that books have any deep influence on our lives--Graham Greene The luminous books of our childhood will remain the luminous books of our lives.--Joyce Carol …
Child Autonomy and Child Governance in Children's Literature
This book explores representations of child autonomy and self-governance in children’s literature.The idea of child rule and child realms is central to children’s literature, and …
Peter Pan's Shadows in the Literary Imagination
This book is a literary analysis of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan in all its different versions -- key rewritings, dramatisations, prequels, and sequels -- and includes a synthesis of …
Recycling Red Riding Hood
Sandra Beckett's book explores the contemporary retellingof the Red Riding Hood tale in Western children's literature. …