Children's Literature Products

By Myisha Priest

This book explores the ways that figures of Black children and writing for them articulate complex and contested notions of justice arising from the entanglements of black freedom and black subjection, articulations made material in spectacular performances on the political stage. Connecting…

Hardback – 2018-08-31 
Routledge
Children's Literature and Culture

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 – 2018-07-19 
Routledge
Language, Culture, and Teaching Series

By Kristen B. Proehl

From Jo March of Little Women (1868) to Katniss Everdeen of The Hunger Games (2008), the American tomboy figure has evolved into an icon of modern girlhood and symbol of female empowerment. Battling Girlhood: Sympathy, Social Justice, and the Tomboy Figure in American Literature traces the…

Hardback – 2018-07-05 
Routledge
Children's Literature and Culture

By Alice Crossley

Focusing on works by George Meredith, W. M. Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope, Alice Crossley expounds on 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 – 2018-06-27 
Routledge
The Nineteenth Century Series

By Amanda Jones

The figure of the wartime child in the mid-twentieth century unsettles and disturbs. This book employs a range of material – biographical, literary and historical – to chart some of the surprising and unanticipated crossovers between women’s writing and early psychoanalysis in the years of the…

Hardback – 2018-06-19 
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

By Blanka Grzegorczyk

Terror and Counter-Terror in Contemporary British Children’s Literature is an investigation of children’s fiction’s capacity to illuminate the limits in Western responses to the era of terror, this book reads contemporary British children’s literature in the context of postcolonial and terrorism…

Hardback – 2018-06-15 
Routledge
Children's Literature and Culture

By Sarah Donovan

At the heart of this inquiry into the ethical implications of education reform on reading practices in middle and secondary classrooms, the central question is what is lost, hidden, or marginalized in the name of progress? Drawing on her own experiences as an English teacher during the No Child…

Paperback – 2018-06-15 
Routledge

By Harry Rand

Paperback – 2018-06-01 
Routledge

By Lorraine Kerslake

Despite the fame Ted Hughes’s poetry has achieved, there has been surprisingly little critical writing on his children’s literature. This book identifies the importance of Hughes’s children’s writing from an ecocritical perspective and argues that the healing function that Hughes ascribes to nature…

Hardback – 2018-05-31 
Routledge
Routledge Environmental Humanities

By Raphael E. Rogers

Drawing on critical race theory, critical race feminism, critical multicultural analysis, and intertextuality this book examines how slavery is represented in contemporary children’s picture books. Through analysis of recently published picture books about slavery, Rogers discusses how these books…

Hardback – 2018-05-09 
Routledge
Routledge Research in Education

Edited by Stacy N. Beckwith

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

Paperback – 2018-04-30 
Routledge

By Christine Goldberg

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

Paperback – 2018-04-30 
Routledge