Children's Literature Products

Edited by Holly Johnson, Janelle Mathis, Kathy G. Short

Extending the discussion of critical content analysis to the visual realm of picturebooks and graphic novels, this book provides a clear research methodology for understanding and analyzing visual imagery. Offering strategies for "reading" illustrations in global and multicultural literature,…

Paperback – 2019-04-15 
Routledge

Edited by Andrew Teverson

The Fairy Tale World is a definitive volume on this ever-evolving field. The book draws on recent critical attention, contesting romantic ideas about timeless tales of good and evil, and arguing that fairy tales are culturally astute narratives that reflect the historical and material circumstances…

Hardback – 2019-04-08 
Routledge
Routledge Worlds

By Megan A. Norcia

Over a century before Monopoly invited child players to bankrupt one another with merry ruthlessness, a lively and profitable board game industry thrived in Britain from the 1750s onward, thanks to publishers like John Wallis, John Betts, and William Spooner. As part of the new wave of materials…

Hardback – 2019-04-01 
Routledge

By Ricki Ginsberg, Wendy Glenn

With a focus on fostering democratic, equitable education for young people, Ginsberg and Glenn’s engaging text showcases a wide variety of innovative, critical classroom approaches that extend beyond traditional literary theories commonly used in K-12 and higher education classrooms and provides…

Paperback – 2019-03-15 
Routledge

Edited by Stacy N. Beckwith

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.…

Paperback – 2019-01-28 
Routledge

By Christine Goldberg

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.…

Paperback – 2019-01-28 
Routledge

Edited by Crag Hill

Building off the argument that comics succeed as literature—rich, complex narratives filled with compelling characters interrogating the thought-provoking issues of our time—this book argues that comics are an expressive medium whose moves (structural and aesthetic) may be shared by literature, the…

Paperback – 2018-12-05
Routledge

By James Leve, Donelle Ruwe

Bringing together musicologists, literature scholars, and specialists in childhood and theater studies, this volume examines the ways in which successful children's musicals tap into adult nostalgia for childhood while appealing to the needs and consumer potential of the child. The contributors…

Hardback – 2018-12-01
Routledge
Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present

By Minjie Chen

The Sino-Japanese War (1937 – 1945) was fought in the Asia-Pacific theatre between Imperial Japan and China, with the United States as the latter’s major military ally. An important line of investigation remains, questioning how the history of this war has been passed on to post-war generations’…

Paperback – 2018-08-14
Routledge

By R. Joseph Rodríguez

In this book, Rodríguez uses theories of critical literacy and culturally responsive teaching to argue that our schools, and our culture, need sustaining and inclusive young adult (YA) literature/s to meet the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse readers and all students. This book…

Paperback – 2018-07-16
Routledge
Language, Culture, and Teaching Series

By Alice Crossley

Focusing on works by George Meredith, W. M. Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope, Alice Crossley examines the emergence of adolescence in the mid-Victorian period as a distinct form of experience. Adolescence, Crossley shows, appears as a discrete category of identity that draws on but is nonetheless…

Hardback – 2018-07-09
Routledge
The Nineteenth Century Series

Edited by Joyce E. Kelley

While we owe much to twentieth and twenty-first century researchers’ careful studies of children’s linguistic and dramatic play, authors of literature, especially children’s literature, have matched and even anticipated these researchers in revealing play’s power—authors well aware of the way…

Hardback – 2018-07-03
Routledge
Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present