Gender(ed) Identities

• Paperback | Engels | Children's Literature and Culture
• This diverse, cross-disciplinary volume examines gender construction in children's and YA literature, complementing and updating scholarship on this t... Lees meer

Children's Literature and Culture of the First World War

• Hardcover | Engels | Children's Literature and Culture
• Because all wars in the twenty-first century are potentially global wars, the centenary of the first global war is the occasion for reflection. This v... Lees meer

Children's Films

Ian Wojik-Andrews

• Hardcover | Engels | Children's Literature and Culture
• This study examines children's films from various critical perspectives, including those provided by classical and current film theory. Lees meer

Picturing the Wolf in Children's Literature

Debra Mitts-Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Children's Literature and Culture
• From the villainous beast of "Little Red Riding Hood" and "The Three Little Pigs," to the nurturing wolves of Romulus and Remus and Rudyard Kipling's ... Lees meer

Brown Gold

Michelle Martin

• Paperback | Engels | Children's Literature and Culture
• Brown Gold is a compelling history and analysis of African-American children's picturebooks from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. At the tur... Lees meer

Pinocchio Goes Postmodern

Richard Wunderlich, Thomas J Morrissey

• Paperback | Engels | Children's Literature and Culture
• In the first full-length study in English of Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio , the authors show how the checkered history of the puppet il... Lees meer

Voracious Children

Carolyn Daniel

• Paperback | Engels | Children's Literature and Culture
• Voracious Children explores food and the way it is used to seduce, to pleasure, and coerce not only the characters within children's literature but al... Lees meer

Voracious Children

Carolyn Daniel

• Hardcover | Engels | Children's Literature and Culture | nr. 39
• Voracious Children explores food and the way it is used to seduce, to pleasure, and coerce not only the characters within children's literature but al... Lees meer

Diana Wynne Jones

Farah Mendlesohn

• Paperback | Engels | Children's Literature and Culture
• British author Diana Wynne Jones has been writing speculative fiction for children for more than thirty years. A clear influence on more recent writer... Lees meer

Dust Off the Gold Medal

• Paperback | Engels | Children's Literature and Culture
• Dust Off the Gold Medal provides a scholarly analysis of representative but understudied Newbery Medal books from the 1920s through the 2010s, interro... Lees meer

Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children's Literature

Tison Pugh

• Paperback | Engels | Children's Literature and Culture
• Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children's Literature examines distinguished classics of children's literature both old and new-inclu... Lees meer

Prizing Children's Literature

• Paperback | Engels | Children's Literature and Culture
• Children's book awards have mushroomed since the early twentieth-century and especially since the 1960s, when literary prizing became a favored strate... Lees meer

How Picturebooks Work

Maria Nikolajeva, Carole Scott

• Paperback | Engels | Children's Literature and Culture
• How Picturebooks Work is an innovative and engaging look at the interplay between text and image in picturebooks. The authors explore picturebooks as ... Lees meer

Antarctica in British Children's Literature

Sinead Moriarty

• Paperback | Engels | Children's Literature and Culture
• For over a century British authors have been writing about the Antarctic for child readers, yet this body of literature has never been explored in det... Lees meer

Second-Generation Memory and Contemporary Children's Literature

Anastasia Ulanowicz

• Hardcover | Engels | Children's Literature and Culture
• Winner of the Children's Literature Association Book Award This book visits a range of textual forms including diary, novel, and picturebook to explor... Lees meer

Voices of the Other

McGillis

• Hardcover | Engels | Children's Literature and Culture | nr. 10
• This book offers a variety of approaches to children's literature from a postcolonial perspective that includes discussions of cultural appropriation,... Lees meer

Into the Closet

Victoria Flanagan

• Paperback | Engels | Children's Literature and Culture
• Into the Closet examines the representation of cross-dressing in a wide variety of children's fiction, ranging from picture books and junior fiction t... Lees meer

The Fantasy of Family

Elizabeth Thiel

• Paperback | Engels | Children's Literature and Culture
• The myth of the Victorian family remains a pervasive influence within a contemporary Britain that perceives itself to be in social crisis. Nostalgic f... Lees meer

Rediscoveries in Children's Literature

Suzanne Rahn

• Paperback | Engels | Children's Literature and Culture
• First Published in 1995. Dedicated to furthering original research in children's literature and culture, the Children's Literature and Culture series ... Lees meer

Shakespeare in Children's Literature

Erica Hateley

• Paperback | Engels | Children's Literature and Culture
• Shakespeare in Children's Literature looks at the genre of Shakespeare-for-children, considering both adaptations of his plays and children's novels i... Lees meer

Apartheid and Racism in South African Children's Literature 1985-1995

Donnarae MacCann, Yulisa Amadu Maddy

• Paperback | Engels | Children's Literature and Culture
• While white racism has global dimensions, it has an unshakeable lease on life in South African political organizations and its educational system. Don... Lees meer

Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction

Robyn McCallum

• Paperback | Engels | Children's Literature and Culture
• Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction examines the representation of selfhood in adolescent and children's fiction, using a Bakhtinian approach... Lees meer

Crossover Fiction

Sandra L Beckett

• Hardcover | Engels | Children's Literature and Culture
• In Crossover Fiction, Sandra L. Beckett explores the global trend of crossover literature and explains how it is transforming literary canons, concept... Lees meer

Beyond Pippi Longstocking

• Paperback | Engels | Children's Literature and Culture
• Astrid Lindgren, author of the famed Pippi Longstocking novels, is perhaps one of the most significant children's authors of the last half of the twen... Lees meer