edited by Peter Hunt
This book introduces the study of children's literature, addressing theoretical questions as well as the most relevant critical approaches to the discipline.
edited by Philip Nel, Lissa Paul, and Nina Christensen
This title is a second edition of the Keywords for Children's Literature. This work provides a list of essential terms for the study of children's literature with a discussion of each term.
by Carrie Hintz and Eric Tribunella
This new edition offers insights into the major discussions and debates currently animating the field of children's literature and is informed by recent scholarship and interest in cultural studies and critical theory
by Carrie Hintz
This text offers a defining conceptual overview of children’s literature that presents its competing histories, its cultural contexts, and the theoretical debates it has instigated.
edited By John Stephens
With particular focus on Asia, Africa and Latin America, the collection raises awareness of children’s literature and related media as they exist in large regions of the world to which ‘mainstream’ European and North American scholarship pays very little attention.
edited by J.D. Stahl, Tina L. Hanlon, and Elizabeth Lennox Keyser
This volume combines a wide variety of primary texts with critical readings, and examines the texts within the context of critical debates.
edited by Shelby Wolf, Karen Coats, Patricia A. Enciso, and Christine Jenkins
Distinguished by its multidisciplinary approach, this volume analyzes the different aspects of literary reading, texts, and contexts to illuminate how the book is transformed within and across different academic figurations of reading and interpreting children’s literature.
edited by Teresa Colomer, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, and Cecilia Silva-Díaz
In this collection, children’s literature scholars contribute to the ongoing debate on the importance of picturebook research, focusing on aesthetic and cognitive aspects of picturebooks.
Below is a selection of critical children's literature texts that address picturebooks.
Below is a selection of critical texts that address literature for child audiences.
Below is a selection of critical texts that address literature for young adult audiences.
Below is a selection of critical texts that address graphic novels and comics.
Below is a selection of critical children's literature texts that address early readers.
Below is a selection of critical texts that address the Realism genre.
Below is a selection of critical texts that address the Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror genres.
Below is a selection of critical texts that address Nonfiction.
Below is a selection of critical texts that address the School Story genre.
Below is a selection of critical texts that address Folk & Fairy Tales.
Below is a selection of critical texts that address Poetry and Narratives in Verse.
Below is a selection of critical texts that address the Mystery genre.
Below is a selection of critical texts that address the Humor genre.
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