Expanding outward from previous scholarship on gender, queerness and heteronormativity in children’s literature, this book offers fresh insights into representations of sex and sexuality in texts for young people.

Dust Off the Gold Medal provides a scholarly analysis of representative but understudied Newbery Medal books from the 1920s through the 2010s, interrogating the disjunction between the books’ influence and the critical silence surrounding them.

Poetics and Ethics of Anthropomorphism: Children, Animals and Poetry will critically contextualize anthropomorphism in traditional and contemporary poetic and theoretical discourse.