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The Children's Book Business is an exploration of how children's literature and children's literature publishing has been shaped by the relationship between what the author calls "status quo" books - didactic ones that support a perceived social order and often deny truths of the real, adult world - and what she calls "guerilla" books - those that undermine or question the values of the social order and actually encourage negotiation with the real world, albeit in a coded, literary way.

The book explains how testing, which is more pervasive than ever, champions basic skills over...

Because all wars in the twenty-first century are potentially global wars, the centenary of the first global war is the occasion for reflection. This volume offers an unprecedented account of the lives, stories, letters, games, schools, institutions (such as the Boy Scouts and YMCA), and toys of children in Europe, North America, and the Global South during the First World War and surrounding years. By engaging with developments in Children's Literature, War Studies, and Education, and mining newly available archival resources (including letters written by children), the contributors to...