A Companion to Children's Literature

ISBN-13: 9781119038221 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 496 str.

Spis treści

Notes on Contributors xIntroduction xviiKaren Coats, Deborah Stevenson, and Vivian Yenika-AgbawPart I: Early Works 11 Juvenile Nonfiction before the Golden Age of Anglo-American Children's Literature 3Ivy Linton Stabell2 The Beginnings of Fiction for Children 14Claudia Nelson3 Folklore in Children's Literature 26Debra Mitts-Smith4 The Victorian Picturebook 39Hannah Field5 The Child-Centered Universe of Nineteenth-Century Children's Nonfiction 58Elizabeth Massa HoiemPart II: Twentieth-Century Developments 716 Developments in Fiction for Children 73Mary Jeanette Moran7 Developments of Picturebooks 84Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer8 Walt Disney and the Fairy Tale 96Paula T. Connolly9 Stay Tuned: A Political History of Saturday Morning Cartoons 105Peter C. Kunze10 Live-Action Films for Children 118Kathy Merlock Jackson11 BreakBeat and the New Auditory Avant-garde -- for Children! (Or, That New-fangled Noise the Kids Are All Going On About) 129Michael Heyman and Joseph T. Thomas, Jr.12 Children's Literature of the Anglophone Caribbean 144Sujin HugginsPart III: Contemporary Trends and Texts 15513 Children's Information Books: Initiatives and Trends 157Elizabeth Bush14 Contemporary Trends in Fiction for Children 168Thaddeus Andracki15 Contemporary Poetry for Children: Toward Diversity, Complexity, and Innovation 179Rachel Conrad16 Picturebook Futures 193Evelyn Arizpe and Emma McGilp17 Postmodern Fairy Tales 207Cherie Allan18 Theatre and Playwriting for Young Audiences 218Nicole B. Adkins19 The Portrayal of Girlhoods in Graphic Narratives for Children 232Elizabeth Marshall20 Playing Children's Literature: Games in and the Gamification of Books for Kids 242Gretchen Papazian21 Digital Children's Literature: Current Understandings and Future Directions 258Dani KachorskyPart IV: Ways of Reading 27122 Critical Multiculturalism and Children's Literature: Trends and Possibilities 273Vivian Yenika-Agbaw23 Cultural Diversity and Social Justice: Readings from the South 287Macarena García González24 Black Critical Theory in Children's Literary Analysis: Why It Matters 299Roberta Price Gardner25 Critical Discourse Studies and the Scholarship of Children's Literature 314Rebecca Rogers and Doris Villarreal26 Disability 330Elizabeth A. Wheeler27 Growing Up Together: Children's Literature and Women's Studies 341Susan Larkin28 Read, Write, Play, Review: Young Children's Connected Reading Communities 352Marianne Martens29 Posthumanism 364Zoe Jaques30 Narrative Theory and Children's Literature 376Mike Cadden31 Animal Studies 390Rachel Falconer32 Trauma Studies 403Adrienne Kertzer33 Censorship and Children's Literature 414Emily J.M. Knox34 The Commodification, "Diversification," and Walliams-fication of the British Children's Book Market 426Melanie Ramdarshan BoldIndex 441

O autorze

Karen Coats is Professor of Education and Director of the Centre for Research in Children's Literature at the University of Cambridge.Deborah Stevenson is a retired Clinical Assistant Professor at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was editor of the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books and Director of the Center for Children's Books.Vivian Yenika-Agbaw was Professor of Education, Literature and Literacies, and African Studies at Pennsylvania State University. She has authored or co-edited several books, including Representing Africa in Children's Literature: Old and New Ways of Seeing.