In:The Moving Canon(s) of Slavic Children’s Literature
Edited by Mateusz Swietlicki, Dorota Michułka and Zofia Zasacka
[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition 20] 2026
► pp. v–vi
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Table of contents
Acknowledgments
List of figures and tables
Preface: Canon(s) on the move: Changes in the evaluation
of children’s literature
of children’s literature
Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
Introduction: The moving canon(s) of Slavic children’s literature
Mateusz Świetlicki
Dorota Michułka
Zofia Zasacka
Part 1.School canons
Chapter 1.Children, displacement, and the other: School education and multicultural discourse in contemporary Polish literature
for young readers
Dorota Michułka
Chapter 2.Children’s literature in the contemporary Ukrainian school canon: Transformations and reorientations
Mateusz Świetlicki
Tetiana Kachak
Chapter 3.Ukrainian literary classics and the young reader: Overcoming the distance
Emiliia Ohar
Chapter 4.International children’s classics in Croatian schools
Ivana Milković
Smiljana Narančić Kovač
Chapter 5.Toward an alternative canon: Translated children’s literature in Polish curricula and the “All of Poland
Reads to Kids” series
Natalia Paprocka
Katarzyna Biernacka-Licznar
Part 2.Children’s literature and young people’s reading practices
Chapter 6.The canon of Polish adolescents’ spontaneous reading choices
Zofia Zasacka
Chapter 7.Transformative vision and abiding traditionalism: Gender in the canon of Soviet children’s literature
Larissa Rudova
Chapter 8.Different actors in contemporary canon formation: The case of teen literature in Russia
Olga Bukhina
Kelly Herold
Chapter 9.The silence of herstory: Experiences of Polish women beyond the canon
Sabina Waleria Świtała
Part 3.The canon and popular culture
Chapter 10.A history and geography of happiness in the Russian cinematic (and educational)
canon
Anastasia Kostetskaya
Chapter 11.Reigning over the canon: Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in Poland
Anna Mik
Chapter 12.The Witcher’s journey through media: The canon, transmedia storytelling, and Slavic fantasy
Michał Wolski
About the editors and contributors
Index
