BISAC SubjectsLITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature
The Moving Canon(s) of Slavic Children’s Literature
Edited by Mateusz Swietlicki, Dorota Michułka and Zofia Zasacka
This volume brings together contributions from leading scholars of children’s literature and culture, who apply various theoretical perspectives to capture transcultural and interdisciplinary links between global and local canons. The chapters are divided into three thematic clusters: School… read more
Transcultural Influences in Soviet and Post-Soviet Animation
Edited by Sabina Amanbayeva, Olga Blackledge and Elena Goodwin
The edited volume Transcultural Influences in Soviet and Post-Soviet Animation provides an innovative perspective on animation from the region as a transcultural phenomenon that was influenced by a complex interplay of international and internal processes. Covering the 1930s to the 2010s, it… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 19] 2026. xiii, 292 pp. + index
Children's Cultures after Childhood
Edited by Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak and Macarena García-González
Children’s Cultures after Childhood introduces theoretical concepts from new materialist and posthumanist childhood studies into research on children’s literature, film, and media texts with attention to the entanglements of which they are part. Thirteen chapters by international contributors from… read more
Emotion in Texts for Children and Young Adults: Moving stories
Edited by Karen Coats and Gretchen Papazian
Emotion in Texts for Children and Young Adults: Moving stories takes up key issues in affect studies while putting forward new approaches and ways of thinking about the intricate entanglements of emotion, affect, and story in relation to the functions, processes, and influences of texts designed… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 13] 2023. x, 242 pp.
Learning to Read, Learning Religion: Catechism primers in Europe from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries
Edited by Britta Juska-Bacher, M.O. Grenby, Tuija Laine and Wendelin Sroka
Catechism primers are inconspicuous but telling little books for children combining the teaching of reading skills and religious catechesis. From the 16th to the 19th centuries, they have been produced, disseminated and used in huge numbers in many regions of the world, in particular in Europe.… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 14] 2023. xix, 375 pp.
Photography in Children's Literature
Edited by Elina Druker and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
Photography in Children’s Literature is the first international study that examines the wide array of artistic techniques, topics, and genres used within photographic books for children. Covering a time period from the 1870s to the 1980s, the collection offers multifaceted insights into changing… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 17] 2023. xv, 306 pp.
Transnational Books for Children 1750-1900: Producers, consumers, encounters
Edited by Charlotte Appel, Nina Christensen and M.O. Grenby
This is the first study to take a comprehensive look at transnational children’s literature in the period before 1900. The chapters examine what we mean by ‘children’s literature’ in this period, as well as what we mean by ‘transnational’ in the context of children’s culture. They investigate who… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 15] 2023. xv, 388 pp.
Consumable Reading and Children's Literature: Food, taste and material interactions
Ilgım Veryeri Alaca
Consumable Reading and Children's Literature explores how multisensory experiences enhance early childhood literacy practices through material and sensory interactions. Embodied engagements that focus on the gustatory experience and, in particular, the sense of taste are investigated by studying… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 12] 2022. xvii, 260 pp.
Growing Sideways in Twenty-first Century British Culture: Challenging boundaries between childhood and adulthood
Anne Malewski
This volume examines changing boundaries between childhood and adulthood in British society and culture at the beginning of the twenty-first century − where these age boundaries are widely debated, policed, and contested − to investigate alternatives to conventional ideas of growing up. Building on… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 11] 2021. xi, 229 pp.
An Ecology of the Russian Avant-Garde Picturebook
Sara Pankenier Weld
An Ecology of the Russian Avant-Garde Picturebook takes a new approach to interpreting 1920s and 1930s picturebooks by prominent Russian writers, artists, and intellectuals by examining them within the ecological environment that, first, made them possible and, then, led to their demise. It argues… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 9] 2018. xiv, 236 pp.
The Nation and the Child: Nation building in Hebrew children’s literature, 1930–1970
Yael Darr
The Nation and the Child – Nation Building in Hebrew Children’s Literature, 1930–1970 is the first comprehensive study to investigate the active role of children’s literature in the intensive cultural project of building a Hebrew nation. Which social actors and institutions participated in… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 10] 2018. xii, 186 pp.
From Superman to Social Realism: Children's media and Scandinavian childhood
Helle Strandgaard Jensen
Can children’s media be a source of education and empowerment? Or is the commercial media market a threat to their sense of social and democratic values? Such questions about the appropriateness of children’s media consumption have recurred in public debates throughout the twentieth century. From… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 6] 2017. xii, 188 pp.
Maps and Mapping in Children's Literature: Landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes
Edited by Nina Goga and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
Maps and Mapping in Children’s Literature is the first comprehensive study that investigates the representation of maps in children’s books as well as the impact of mapping on the depiction of landscapes, seascapes, and cityscapes in children’s literature. The chapters in this volume pursue a… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 7] 2017. x, 267 pp.
Mixed Magic: Global-local dialogues in fairy tales for young readers
Anna Katrina Gutierrez
Mixed Magic: Global-local dialogues in fairy tales for young readers considers retellings and adaptations from a ‘glocal’ context: a framework focused on the reciprocal and cross-cultural exchange between global processes and local practices and their potential transformative effects. The study… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 8] 2017. xix, 230 pp.
Children's Literature and the Avant-Garde
Edited by Elina Druker and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
Children’s Literature and the Avant-Garde is the first study that investigates the intricate influence of the avant-garde movements on children’s literature in different countries from the beginning of the 20th century until the present. Examining a wide range of children’s books from Denmark,… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 5] 2015. xii, 295 pp.
The Mighty Child: Time and power in children's literature
Clémentine Beauvais
The Mighty Child offers an existentialist approach to the theorization and criticism of children’s literature, nuancing the academic claim that children’s literature, specifically defined as ‘didactic’, alienates childhood from adulthood and disempowers its implied child reader. This volume… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 4] 2015. xii, 226 pp.
Literary Conceptualizations of Growth: Metaphors and cognition in adolescent literature
Roberta Trites
Literary Conceptualizations of Growth explores those processes through which maturation is represented in adolescent literature by examining how concepts of growth manifest themselves in adolescent literature and by interrogating how the concept of growth structures scholars’ ability to think about… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 2] 2014. viii, 164 pp.
Fictions of Adolescent Carnality: Sexy sinners and delinquent deviants
Lydia Kokkola
Fictions of Adolescent Carnality considers one of the most controversial topics related to adolescents: their experience of desire. In fiction for adolescents, carnal desire is variously presented as a source of angst, an overwhelming experience over which one has no control, bestial, disgusting… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 1] 2013. x, 236 pp.