Astrid Lindgren, author of the famed Pippi Longstocking novels, is perhaps one of the most significant children's authors of the last half of the twentieth century. This title consider films, music, and picturebooks relating to Lindgren, in addition to the author's reception internationally.
Astrid Lindgren, author of the famed Pippi Longstocking novels, is perhaps one of the most significant children's authors of the last half of the twen...
This volume looks critically at Irish writing for children from the 1980s to the present, examining the work of many writers and illustrators and engaging with all the major forms and genres. Topics include the gothic, the speculative, poetry, picturebooks, post-colonial discourse, identity and ethnicity, and globalization.
This volume looks critically at Irish writing for children from the 1980s to the present, examining the work of many writers and illustrators and enga...
Julie Cross examines the intricacies of textual humour in contemporary junior literature using the tools of literary criticism and humour theory. She investigates the dialectical paradoxes of humour and debunks the common belief in oppositional binaries of 'simple' versus 'complex' humor.
Julie Cross examines the intricacies of textual humour in contemporary junior literature using the tools of literary criticism and humour theory. She ...
'Sparing the Child' examines young reader's narratives about Nazism and the Holocaust in terms of the official as well as the understated motivations of their authors.
'Sparing the Child' examines young reader's narratives about Nazism and the Holocaust in terms of the official as well as the understated motivations ...
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 the main critical interpretations of the text over its history.
This book is a literary analysis of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan in all its different versions -- key rewritings, dramatisations, prequels, and sequels -- ...
Children's literature today is dominated by the gothic mode, and it is in children's gothic fictions that we find the implications of cultural change most radically questioned and explored. This collection of essays looks at what is happening in the children's Gothic now when traditional monsters have become the heroes, when new monsters have come into play, when globalisation brings Harry Potter into China and yaoguai into the children's Gothic, and when childhood itself and children's literature as a genre can no longer be thought of as an uncontested space apart from the debates and...
Children's literature today is dominated by the gothic mode, and it is in children's gothic fictions that we find the implications of cultural chan...
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 scholarship in the field by creating a rich, cohesive examination of core questions around gender and sexuality in classic and contemporary texts. By providing an expansive treatment of gender and sexuality across genres, eras, and national literature, the collection explores how readers encounter unorthodox as well as traditional notions of gender. It begins with essays exploring how children's and YA literature...
This volume brings together diverse, cross-disciplinary scholarly voices to examine gender construction in children's and young adult literature. I...
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...
Because all wars in the twenty-first century are potentially global wars, the centenary of the first global war is the occasion for reflection. Thi...
Children's book awards have mushroomed since the early twentieth-century and especially since the 1960s, when literary prizing became a favored strategy for both commercial promotion and canon-making. There are over 300 awards for English-language titles alone, but despite the profound impact of children s book awards, scholars have paid relatively little attention to them. This book is the first scholarly volume devoted to the analysis of Anglophone children's book awards in historical and cultural context. With attention to both political and aesthetic concerns, the book offers original...
Children's book awards have mushroomed since the early twentieth-century and especially since the 1960s, when literary prizing became a favored str...
