Neoliberalism and Young Adult Fiction
Exceptionalism, Exploitation, and Erasure
One of the first critical volumes to examine how young adult literature reproduces but also resists neoliberalism
Atravesados
Essays on Queer Latinx Young Adult Literature
A scholarly revelation of the Latinidades characters and works that have crossed multiple borders
Animating the Victorians
Disney's Literary History
A thorough study of the many links between the Golden Age of children’s literature and a global storytelling powerhouse
Reading LGBTQ+ Children's Picture Books
An engaging collection of original scholarship on LGBTQ+ children’s picture books
The Child Gaze
Narrating Resistance in American Literature
A compelling study centered on the eyes of children and their powerful lines of sight
In Transition
Young Adult Literature and Transgender Representation
How the young adult book market has shifted in favor of transgender inclusivity
L. M. Montgomery's Emily of New Moon
A Children's Classic at 100
A collection of essays focused on the often-overlooked novel series by the beloved author of Anne of Green Gables
Alt Kid Lit
What Children's Literature Might Be
A timely group of essays that wrestles with what children’s literature is and who it is made for
Tending to the Past
Selfhood and Culture in Children's Narratives about Slavery and Freedom
How Black writers have circumvented stereotypes to positively portray Black survival, creativity, and autonomy to young readers
The Velveteen Rabbit at 100
A new series of engaging and fascinating essays on the beloved children’s classic
Caribbean Children's Literature, Volume 2
Critical Approaches
The second installment of an essential anthology on children’s literature of the Caribbean and its diaspora
Caribbean Children's Literature, Volume 1
History, Pedagogy, and Publishing
The first installment of an essential anthology on children’s literature of the Caribbean and its diaspora
Queer Oz
L. Frank Baum's Trans Tales and Other Astounding Adventures in Sex and Gender
The first scholarly monograph to focus on L. Frank Baum’s portrayals of queerness and sexuality in his more than seventy works of fiction
African American Adolescent Female Heroes
The Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Neo-Slave Narrative
A scholarly examination of contemporary neo-slave narratives and their African American heroines
Children, Deafness, and Deaf Cultures in Popular Media
An essential study on portrayals of D/deaf experiences in children’s literature and popular culture