Children's Literature Products

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 Joan L. Knickerbocker, James Rycik

This book explores a great variety of works, genres, and formats, and places special emphasis on contemporary works whose nontraditional themes, protagonists, and literary conventions make them well suited to young adult readers. It also looks at the ways in which contemporary readers access and…

Hardback – 2018-12-01 
Routledge

Edited by Stacy N. Beckwith

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

Paperback – 2018-11-30 
Routledge

By Christine Goldberg

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

Paperback – 2018-11-30 
Routledge

Edited by Andrew Teverson

Hardback – 2018-11-01 
Routledge
Routledge Worlds

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 
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Children's Literature and Culture

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 – 2018-08-25 
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 – 2018-08-15 
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 – 2018-07-19 
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 – 2018-07-12 
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Children's Literature and Culture

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 – 2018-07-06 
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The Nineteenth Century Series

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