1st Edition
Handbook of Research on Children's and Young Adult Literature
This landmark volume is the first to bring together leading scholarship on children’s and young adult literature from three intersecting disciplines: Education, English, and Library and Information Science. Distinguished by its multidisciplinary approach, it describes and analyzes the different aspects of literary reading, texts, and contexts to illuminate how the book is transformed within and across different academic figurations of reading and interpreting children’s literature.
- Part one considers perspectives on readers and reading literature in home, school, library, and community settings.
- Part two introduces analytic frames for studying young adult novels, picturebooks, indigenous literature, graphic novels, and other genres. Chapters include commentary on literary experiences and creative production from renowned authors and illustrators.
- Part three focuses on the social contexts of literary study, with chapters on censorship, awards, marketing, and literary museums.
The singular contribution of this Handbook is to lay the groundwork for colleagues across disciplines to redraw the map of their separately figured worlds, thus to enlarge the scope of scholarship and dialogue as well as push ahead into uncharted territory.
CONTENTS
Preface
ix
PART 1—THE READER
Introduction to Part 1
Chapter 1
Children Reading at Home: An Historical Overview
Evelyn Arizpe & Morag Styles
xx
Chapter 2
Questioning the Value of Literacy: A Phenomenology of Speaking and Reading in Children
Eva-Maria Simms
xx
Chapter 3
The Book as Home? It All Depends.
Shirley Brice Heath
Chapter 4
Reading Literature in Elementary Classrooms
Kathy G. Short
Chapter 5
Readers, Texts, and Contexts in the Middle: Re-imagining Literature Education for Young Adolescents
Thomas P. Crumpler & Linda Wedwick
Chapter 6
Reading Literature in Secondary School: Disciplinary Discourses in Global Times
Cynthia Lewis & Jessica Dockter
Chapter 7
Imagining a Writer’s Life: Extending the Connection Between Readers and Books
Elizabeth Dutro & Monette C. McIver
Chapter 8
Theoretical and Pedagogical Possibilities in the Teaching of Latina/o Children’s Literature in Multicultural Contexts
María E. Fránquiz, Carmen Martínez-Roldán, & Carmen I. Mercado
Chapter 9
School Libraries and the Transformation of Readers and Reading
Eliza T. Dresang & M. Bowie Kotrla
Chapter 10
Public Libraries in the Lives of Young Readers: Past, Present, and Future
Kathleen Weibel, Virginia A. Walter, & Paulette M. Rothbauer
Chapter 11
Becoming Readers of Literature with LGBT Themes In and Out of Classrooms
Mollie V. Blackburn & Caroline T. Clark
Chapter 12
Immigrant Students as Cosmopolitan Intellectuals
Gerald Campano & Maria Paula Ghiso
PART 2—THE BOOK
Introduction to Part 2
Chapter 13
History of Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Deborah Stevenson
Point of Departure
Lois Lowry
Chapter 14
Dime Novels and Series Books
Catherine Sheldrick Ross
Point of Departure
Candice Ransom
Chapter 15
Folklore in Children’s Literature: Contents and Discontents
Betsy Hearne
Point of Departure
Julius Lester
Chapter 16
African American Children’s Literature: Researching Its Development, Exploring Its Voices
Rudine Sims Bishop
Point of Departure
Jacqueline Woodson
Chapter 17
The Art of the Picturebook
Lawrence R. Sipe
Point of Departure
Chris Raschka
Point of Departure
David Wiesner
Chapter 18
Comics and Graphic Novels
Robin Brenner
Point of Departure
Gareth Hinds
Point of Departure
Raina Telgemeier
Chapter 19
A Burgeoning Field or a Sorry State: U.S. Poetry for Children, 1800-Present
Laura Apol & Janine L. Certo
Point of Departure
Janet S. Wong
Chapter 20
Nonfiction Literature for Children: Old Assumptions and New Directions
Barbara Kiefer & Melissa I. Wilson
Point of Departure
Penny Colman
Chapter 21
Genre as Nexus: The Novel for Children and Young Adults
Mike Cadden
Point of Departure
Philip Pullman
Chapter 22
Young Adult Literature: Growing Up, In Theory
Karen Coats
Point of Departure
Markus Zusak
Chapter 23
Reading Indigeneity: The Ethics of Interpretation and Representation
Clare Bradford
Point of Departure
Joseph Bruchac
Chapter 24
Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Children’s Literature, and the Case of Jeff Smith
Roderick McGillis
Point of Departure
David Filipi
Point of Departure
David Filipi, Lucy Shelton Caswell, & Jeff Smith
Chapter 25
Ideology and Children’s Books
Robyn McCallum & John Stephens
Point of Departure
M.T. Anderson
Chapter 26
The Author’s Perspective
Claudia Mills
Point of Departure
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Chapter 27
Archives and Special Collections Devoted to Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Karen Nelson Hoyle
Point of Departure
Leonard S. Marcus
PART 3—THE WORLD AROUND
Introduction to Part 3
CHAPTER 28
Where Worlds Meet
Ana Maria Machado
Point of Departure
Katherine Paterson
Chapter 29
Translation and Crosscultural Reception
Maria Nikolajeva
Point of Departure
Tara F. Chace
Chapter 30
The Implied Reader of the Translation
Petros Panaou & Tasoula Tsilimeni
Point of Departure
Kostia Kontoleon
Chapter 31
International Communities Building Places for Youth Reading
Michael Daniel Ambatchew
Point of Departure
Jane Kurtz
Point of Departure
Yohannes Gebregeorgis
Chapter 32
Censorship: Book Challenges, Challenging Books, and Young Readers
Christine Jenkins
Chapter 33
Reviewing Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Michael Cart
Chapter 34
Awards in Literature for Children and Adolescents
Junko Yokota
Chapter 35
The Economics of Children’s Book Publishing in the 21st Century
Joel Taxel
Chapter 36
Spinning Off: Toys, Television, Tie-Ins, and Technology
Margaret Mackey
Chapter 37
Listening for the Scratch of a Pen: Museums Devoted to Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Elizabeth Hammill
Coda
Contributor List
Author Index
Subject Index
Biography
Shelby A. Wolf is Professor of Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Karen Coats is Professor of English and Director of English Education at Illinois State University.
Patricia Enciso is Associate Professor of Literature, Literacy, and Equity Studies at The Ohio State University.
Christine A. Jenkins is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
"Overall, this is an indispensible collection for any educator, scholar, librarian, reader, or writer who is looking to expand her understanding of the varied perspectives of children’s and young adult literature."
—Children's Literature in Education"The editors of this useful volume successfully bridge the disciplinary divisions that run through much of the scholarship on children’s literature. The volume includes essays by scholars in education, English, and library and information science; these diverse contributors stress the value of taking an interdisciplinary approach to the study of children’s literature."—Children’s Literature Association Quarterly
"There is absolutely no valid reason not to own this book or have ready access to it at your institution."--The Learning Assistance Review
"Wolf and her fellow editors present a great deal of excellent material that will prove helpful to those embarking on their own study of the subject. Highly recommended."
-- Choice
