Children’s and Young Adult Literature Studies
A Centennial Celebration of The Brownies’ Book
Contributions by Jani L. Barker, Rudine Sims Bishop, Julia S. Charles-Linen, Paige Gray, Dianne Johnson-Feelings, Jonda C. McNair, Sara C. VanderHaagen, and Michelle Taylor Watts
The Brownies’ Book occupies ...
Harry Potter and the Other
Named a 2023 Honour Book by the International Research Society for Children's Literature
Contributions by Christina M. Chica, Kathryn Coto, Sarah Park Dahlen, Preethi Gorecki, Tolonda Henderson, Marcia ...
The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books
2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
In The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books, Jennifer Miller identifies an archive of over 150 English-language children’s picture books that e ...
Open at the Close
Contributions by Lauren R. Carmacci, Keridiana Chez, Kate Glassman, John Granger, Marie Schilling Grogan, Beatrice Groves, Tolonda Henderson, Nusaiba Imady, Cecilia Konchar Farr, Juliana Valadão Lopes, ...
Equipping Space Cadets
Winner of the 2023 Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) Book Award
2022 Longlist Nominee for the Best Non-Fiction Award from the British Science Fiction Association
Equipping Space Cadets: Primary ...
The Green Mister Rogers
Fred Rogers was an international celebrity. He was a pioneer in children’s television, an advocate for families, and a multimedia artist and performer. He wrote the television scripts and music, performed p ...
Little Women at 150
Contributions by Beverly Lyon Clark, Christine Doyle, Gregory Eiselein, John Matteson, Joel Myerson, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, Anne K. Phillips, Daniel Shealy, and Roberta Seelinger Trites
As the golden ...
The School Story
The School Story: Young Adult Narratives in the Age of Neoliberalism examines the work of contemporary writers, filmmakers, and critics who, reflecting on the realm of school experience, help to shape ...
From Wallflowers to Bulletproof Families
Uses of disability in literature are often problematic and harmful to disabled people. This is also true, of course, in children’s and young adult literature, but interestingly, when disability is paired a ...
Curious about George
In 1940, Hans Augusto Rey and Margret Rey built two bikes, packed what they could, and fled wartime Paris. Among the possessions they escaped with was a manuscript that would later become one of the most ...