Bücher der Reihe Children's Literature Association Series

Dark novels, shows, and films targeted toward children and young adults are proliferating wildly. Reading in the Dark fills a gap in criticism devoted to children's popular culture by concentrating on horror, an often neglected genre. These scholars explore the intersection between horror, popular culture, and children's cultural productions.

Argues for the benefits and potential of 'primary science fiction', or science fiction for children under twelve years old. Using three empirical studies and over 350 children's books, Equipping Space Cadets presents interdisciplinary evidence that science fiction and children are compatible after all.

Offers a critical examination of children's and YA comics. The anthology is divided into five sections: structure and narration; transmedia; pedagogy; gender and sexuality; and identity, that reflect crucial issues and recurring topics in comics scholarship during the twenty-first century. The contributors are likewise drawn from a diverse array of disciplines.

Dark novels, shows, and films targeted toward children and young adults are proliferating wildly. It is even more crucial now to understand the methods by which such texts have traditionally operated and how those methods have been challenged, abandoned, and appropriated. Reading in the Dark fills a gap in criticism devoted to children's popular culture by concentrating on horror.

A significant body of scholarship examines the production of children's literature by women and minorities, as well as the representation of gender, race, and sexuality. But few scholars have previously analyzed class in children's literature. This definitive collection remedies that by defining and exemplifying historical materialist approaches to children's literature.

By examining the novels of critically and commercially successful authors such as Sarah Dessen, Stephenie Meyer, and Laurie Halse Anderson, Reading Like a Girl explores the use of narrative intimacy as a means of reflecting and reinforcing larger, often contradictory, cultural expectations regarding adolescent women, interpersonal relationships, and intimacy.

Appearing first as a weekly serial in The Christian Herald, Eleanor H. Porter's Pollyanna was first published in book form in 1913. In celebration of its centenary, this collection of thirteen original essays examines a wide variety of the novel's themes and concerns, as well as adaptations in film, manga, and translation.

Addresses questions of outsider identities and how these identities are shaped by mainstream myths around Chicanx and Latinx young people, particularly with the common stereotype of the struggling, underachieving inner-city teens.

While critical and popular attention afforded to twenty-first-century young adult literature has increased in recent years, classroom materials and scholarship have remained static in focus and slight in scope. This volume offers a remedy, bringing together essays about the many subgenres, themes, and character types that have been overlooked.

Focuses on moving beyond stereotypes to examine how Asian American children and adolescents define their unique identities. Individual chapters, crossing cultural, linguistic, and racial boundaries, negotiate the complex terrain of Asian American children's and teenagers' identities.

Over twenty years after the publication of her groundbreaking work, Waking Sleeping Beauty: Feminist Voices in Children's Novels, Roberta Seelinger Trites returns to analyse how literature for the young still provides one outlet in which feminists can offer girls an alternative to sexism.

Offers a sustained, critical examination of Wilder's writings, including her Little House series, her posthumously published The First Four Years, her letters, journalism, and autobiography. The collection also draws on biographies of Wilder, letters to and from Wilder and her daughter, and other biographical materials.

Offers a sustained, critical examination of Wilder's writings, including her Little House series, her posthumously published The First Four Years, her letters, journalism, and autobiography. The collection also draws on biographies of Wilder, letters to and from Wilder and her daughter, and other biographical materials.

Offers a critical examination of children's and YA comics. The anthology is divided into five sections - structure and narration; transmedia; pedagogy; gender and sexuality; and identity - that reflect crucial issues and recurring topics in comics scholarship during the twenty-first century.

Given the vital role literary mothers play in books for young readers, it is remarkable how little scholarly attention has been paid to the representation of mothers outside of fairy tales and beyond studies of gender stereotypes. This collection of thirteen essays begins to fill a critical gap by bringing together a range of theoretical perspectives by a rich mix of senior scholars and new voices.

Presents twelve essays that explore this posthumanism's relevance in young adult literature. Contributors to the volume explore ideas of posthumanism, including democratization of power, body enhancements, hybridity, multiplicity/plurality, and the environment, by analysing recent works for young adults.

Eleanor H. Porter's Pollyanna was first published in book form in 1913. The story's enduring appeal lies in Pollyanna's sunny personality and her playful attempt to accentuate the positive in every situation. In celebration of its centenary, this collection of thirteen original essays examines a wide variety of the novel's themes and concerns, as well as adaptations in film, manga, and translation.

Over twenty years after the publication of her groundbreaking work, Waking Sleeping Beauty: Feminist Voices in Children's Novels, Roberta Seelinger Trites returns to analyse how literature for the young still provides one outlet in which feminists can offer girls an alternative to sexism.

From didactic nursery rhymes to Coraline and The Hunger Games, an engagement with the vital figure of the mother

Provides a survey of food's function in children's texts, showing how the sociocultural contexts of food reveal children's agency. Kara Keeling and Scott Pollard examine texts that vary from historical to contemporary, noncanonical to classics, and Anglo-American to multicultural traditions, including a variety of genres, formats, and audiences.

Testifies to the cultural, social, and political significance of children's culture in the development of generational intelligence towards age-others and positions the field of children's literature studies as a site of intergenerational solidarity, opening possibilities for a new socially consequential inquiry into the culture of childhood.

Testifies to the cultural, social, and political significance of children's culture in the development of generational intelligence towards age-others and positions the field of children's literature studies as a site of intergenerational solidarity, opening possibilities for a new socially consequential inquiry into the culture of childhood.

Though texts within dystopian literature and science fiction may share similar settings, plot devices, and characters, each genre's value is different because they do distinctively different sociocritical work. This book distinguishes the two genres, explains the function of each, and outlines the impact each has on readers.

Crockett Johnson (born David Johnson Leisk, 1906-1975) and Ruth Krauss (1901-1993) were a husband-and-wife team that created such popular children's books as The Carrot Seed and How to Make an Earthquake. Separately, Johnson created the enduring children's classic Harold and the Purple Crayon and the groundbreaking comic strip Barnaby. Krauss wrote over a dozen children's books illustrated by others, and pioneered the use of spontaneous, loose-tongued kids in children's literature. Together, Johnson and Krauss's style--whimsical writing, clear and minimalist drawing, and a child's point-of-view--is among the most revered and influential in children's literature and cartooning, inspiring the work of Maurice Sendak, Charles M. Schulz, Chris Van Allsburg, and Jon Scieszka.This critical biography examines their lives and careers, including their separate achievements when not collaborating. Using correspondence, sketches, contemporary newspaper and magazine accounts, archived and personal interviews, author Philip Nel draws a compelling portrait of a couple whose output encompassed children's literature, comics, graphic design, and the fine arts. Their mentorship of now-famous illustrator Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are) is examined at length, as is the couple's appeal to adult contemporaries such as Duke Ellington and Dorothy Parker. Defiantly leftist in an era of McCarthyism and Cold War paranoia, Johnson and Krauss risked collaborations that often contained subtly rendered liberal themes. Indeed, they were under FBI surveillance for years. Their legacy of considerable success invites readers to dream and to imagine, drawing paths that take them anywhere they want to go.

Goes beyond the traditional adaptation approach of comparing and contrasting the similarities of film and book versions of a text. By tracing a pattern across films for young viewers, Meeusen proposes a consistent trend can be found in movies adapted from children's and young adult books.

Presents twelve essays that explore posthumanism's relevance in young adult literature. Contributors explore the democratization of power, body enhancements, hybridity, multiplicity/plurality, and the environment, by analysing recent works for young adults.

A multidisciplinary volume that reframes children as powerful forces in the production of their own literature and culture by uncovering a tradition of collaborative partnerships between adults and children in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century England. The intergenerational collaborations documented provide the foundations for some of the most popular Victorian literature for children.

Addresses questions of outsider identities and how these identities are shaped by mainstream myths around Chicanx and Latinx young people, particularly with the common stereotype of the struggling, underachieving inner-city teens.

While critical and popular attention afforded to twenty-first-century young adult literature has increased in recent years, classroom materials and scholarship have remained static in focus and slight in scope. This volume offers a remedy, bringing together essays about the many subgenres, themes, and character types that have been overlooked.

In 1939, Aleksandr Volkov published Wizard of the Emerald City, a revised version of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Erika Haber demonstrates how the works of both Baum and Volkov evolved from being popular children's literature and became compelling and enduring cultural icons in both the US and USSR/Russia, despite being dismissed and ignored for many years.