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Children's Literature and Culture


About the Series

Founding Editor and Series Editor 1994-2011: Jack Zipes

Series Editor, 2011-2018: Philip Nel

 

Founded by Jack Zipes in 1994, Children's Literature and Culture is the longest-running series devoted to the study of children’s literature and culture from a national and international perspective. Dedicated to promoting original research in children’s literature and children’s culture, in 2011 the series expanded its focus to include childhood studies, and it seeks to explore the legal, historical, and philosophical conditions of different childhoods. An advocate for scholarship from around the globe, the series recognizes innovation and encourages interdisciplinarity. Children's Literature and Culture offers cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections considering topics such as gender, race, picturebooks, childhood, nation, religion, technology, and many others. Titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.

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Detective Fiction for Young Readers Full of Secrets

Detective Fiction for Young Readers: Full of Secrets

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Chris McGee
August 23, 2024

Detective Fiction for Young Readers is an examination of contemporary mystery stories for children and young adults. This volume explores how the conventions, rules, and expectations of adult mystery fiction have filtered down so to speak, especially in the past several decades, to writing for ...

Risk in Children’s Adventure Literature

Risk in Children’s Adventure Literature

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Elly McCausland
May 31, 2024

Risk in Children’s Adventure Literature examines the way in which adults discuss the reading and entertainment habits of children, and with it the assumption that adventure is a timeless and stable constant whose meaning and value is self-evident. A closer enquiry into British and ...

Children’s Literature in Place Surveying the Landscapes of Children’s Culture

Children’s Literature in Place: Surveying the Landscapes of Children’s Culture

1st Edition

Edited By Željka Flegar, Jennifer M. Miskec
February 29, 2024

Children’s Literature in Place: Surveying the Landscapes of Children’s Culture is an edited collection dedicated to individual, international, and interdisciplinary considerations of the places and spaces of children’s literature, media, and culture, from content to methodology, in fictional, ...

Youth Fiction and Trans Representation

Youth Fiction and Trans Representation

1st Edition

By Tom Sandercock
January 29, 2024

Youth Fiction and Trans Representation is the first book that wholly addresses the growth of trans and gender variant representation in literature, television, and films for children and young adults in the twenty-first century. Ranging across an array of media—including picture books, novels, ...

Lying, Truthtelling, and Storytelling in Children’s and Young Adult Literature Telling It Slant

Lying, Truthtelling, and Storytelling in Children’s and Young Adult Literature: Telling It Slant

1st Edition

By Anita Tarr
December 20, 2023

Even though we instruct our children not to lie, the truth is that lying is a fundamental part of children’s development—socially, cognitively, emotionally, morally. Lying can sometimes be more compassionate than telling the truth, even more ethical. Reading specific children’s books can instruct ...

Family in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

Family in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

1st Edition

Edited By Eleanor Spencer, Jade Dillon Craig
September 15, 2023

Family in Children's and Young Adult Literature is a comprehensive study of the family in Anglophone children’s and Young Adult literature from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Written by intellectual leaders in the field from the UK, the Americas, Europe, and Australia, this ...

Speech and Silence in Contemporary Children’s Literature

Speech and Silence in Contemporary Children’s Literature

1st Edition

By Danielle E. Price
September 22, 2023

Speech and Silence in Contemporary Children’s Literature brings a fresh perspective to a central literary question— Who speaks?— by examining a variety of represented silences. These include children who do not speak, do not yet speak effectively, or speak on behalf of others. A rich and unexamined...

The Figure of the Child in WWI American, British, and Canadian Children’s Literature Farmer, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

The Figure of the Child in WWI American, British, and Canadian Children’s Literature: Farmer, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

1st Edition

By Elizabeth A. Galway
September 25, 2023

Over the past century, much attention has been paid to the literature written for adults in response to the First World War, but there has been comparatively little consideration of how the war influenced literature for young readers at the time. Based on extensive archival research, this study ...

Age in David Almond’s Oeuvre A Multi-Method Approach to Studying Age and the Life Course in Children’s Literature

Age in David Almond’s Oeuvre: A Multi-Method Approach to Studying Age and the Life Course in Children’s Literature

1st Edition

By Vanessa Joosen, Michelle Anya Anjirbag, Leander Duthoy, Lindsey Geybels, Frauke Pauwels, Emma-Louise Silva
July 28, 2023

In recent decades, age studies has started to emerge as a new approach to study children’s literature. This book builds on that scholarship but also significantly extends it by exploring age in various aspects of children’s literature: the age of the author, the characters, the writing style, the ...

Dust Off the Gold Medal Rediscovering Children’s Literature at the Newbery Centennial

Dust Off the Gold Medal: Rediscovering Children’s Literature at the Newbery Centennial

1st Edition

Edited By Sara L. Schwebel, Jocelyn Van Tuyl
May 31, 2023

The oldest and most prestigious children’s literature award, the Newbery Medal has since 1922 been granted annually by the American Library Association to the children’s book it deems "most distinguished." Medal books enjoy an outsized influence on American children’s literature, figuring...

Poetics and Ethics of Anthropomorphism Children, Animals, and Poetry

Poetics and Ethics of Anthropomorphism: Children, Animals, and Poetry

1st Edition

By Christopher (Kit) Kelen, Chengcheng You
May 31, 2023

Poetics and Ethics of Anthropomorphism: Children, Animals, and Poetry investigates a kind of poetry written mainly by adults for children. Many genres, including the picture book, are considered in asking for what purposes ‘animal poetry’ is composed and what function it serves. Critically ...

Next-Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Children’s Historical Fiction The Seeds of Memory

Next-Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Children’s Historical Fiction: The Seeds of Memory

1st Edition

By Mateusz Świetlicki
March 24, 2023

This is the first book monograph devoted to Anglophone Ukrainian Canadian children’s historical fiction published between 1991 and 2021. It consists of five chapters offering cross-sectional and interdisciplinary readings of 41 books – novels, novellas, picturebooks, short stories, and a graphic ...

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