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Children's Literature Studies: Scholarly Books

Children's Literature Criticism: A Selection to Start

Cover image for Understanding Children's Literature, 2e, editedby Peter Hunt

Understanding Children's Literature, 2e (ebook)

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.

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Keywords for Children's Literature, 2e (ebook)

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.

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Reading Children's Literature: A Critical Introduction, 2e

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

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Children's Literature (ebook)

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.

Cover image for The Routledge Companion to International Children's Literature edited By John Stephens

The Routledge Companion to International Children's Literature (ebook)

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.

Cover image for Crosscurrents of Children's Literature edited by J.D. Stahl, Tina L. Hanlon, Elizabeth Lennox Keyser

Crosscurrents of Children's Literature: An Anthology of Texts and Criticism

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.

Cover image for Handbook of Research on Children's and Young Adult Literature edited by Shelby Wolf, Karen Coats, Patricia A. Enciso, Christine Jenkins

Handbook of Research on Children's and Young Adult Literature

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.

Cover image for New Directions in Picturebook Research edited by Teresa Colomer, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Cecilia Silva-Díaz

New Directions in Picturebook Research (ebook)

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.

Exploring Format & Audience

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.


Exploring Genre

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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