In:Children’s Literature Across Media: Concepts and perspectives of transmedia narratives
Edited by Nina Christensen, Ute Dettmar and Sarah Mygind
[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition 21] 2026
► pp. v–vi
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Table of contents
List of figures
Introduction: Transmedia and intermediality studies and texts for and by children and
young adults
Nina Christensen
Ute Dettmar
Sarah Mygind
Part I.Analysis of transmedia narratives and phenomena
Chapter 1.The building blocks of transmedial seriality: The Lego franchise
Benjamin Beil
Hanns Christian Schmidt
Chapter 2.Work in progress: Storytelling and worldbuilding in Cornelia Funke’s
Mirrorworld series
Ute Dettmar
Chapter 3.Carmilla: The narrative aesthetics of a web series
Ulrike Kristina Köhler
Chapter 4.Exploring rooms where children can read: The transmediality of Filipino Room to Read
picturebooks
Cheeno Marlo M. Sayuno
Part II.Fan engagement in transmedia contexts
Chapter 5.Transmedia book love: Young people’s digital creativity on the Bookternet
Gitte Balling
Marianne Martens
Jessica B. Wise
Chapter 6.Considering the links between transmedia engagement and minoritized
identities through intersectional Harry Potter
fanworks
Jennifer Duggan
Chapter 7.“Trial by TikTok”? Children’s social negotiation of controversial transmedial
characters
Lisbeth Klastrup
Chapter 8.The mass in the margins: On fanfiction’s controversial place in the literary and transmedia
landscape
Fabienne Silberstein-Bamford
Part III.Producing transmedia content
Chapter 9.“You can merge two brains”: Youth literary practices in a local, collaborative context
Sarah Mygind
Chapter 10.So much more than books: Children’s literature in converging markets
Corinna Norrick-Rühl
Anke Vogel
Chapter 11.The new generation of creators of content for children and young
people: Interview with Elin Algreen-Petersen, head of The Cross-media School
of Children’s Fiction, Denmark
Sarah Mygind
Chapter 12.Adapting transmedia content for young adults across national
contexts: The German public broadcasting service funk as a case. Interview with Jella Ritzen
Sarah Mygind
About the editors and contributors
