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Healthcare in Children's Media

University Press of Mississippi

The first full-length, multidisciplinary study examining representations of healthcare systems in children’s media

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Neoliberalism and Young Adult Fiction

Exceptionalism, Exploitation, and Erasure

University Press of Mississippi

One of the first critical volumes to examine how young adult literature reproduces but also resists neoliberalism

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Atravesados

Essays on Queer Latinx Young Adult Literature

University Press of Mississippi

A scholarly revelation of the Latinidades characters and works that have crossed multiple borders

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Animating the Victorians

Disney's Literary History

University Press of Mississippi

A thorough study of the many links between the Golden Age of children’s literature and a global storytelling powerhouse

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Reading LGBTQ+ Children's Picture Books

University Press of Mississippi

An engaging collection of original scholarship on LGBTQ+ children’s picture books

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The Child Gaze

Narrating Resistance in American Literature

University Press of Mississippi

A compelling study centered on the eyes of children and their powerful lines of sight

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In Transition

Young Adult Literature and Transgender Representation

University Press of Mississippi

How the young adult book market has shifted in favor of transgender inclusivity

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L. M. Montgomery's Emily of New Moon

A Children's Classic at 100

University Press of Mississippi

A collection of essays focused on the often-overlooked novel series by the beloved author of Anne of Green Gables

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Alt Kid Lit

What Children's Literature Might Be

University Press of Mississippi

A timely group of essays that wrestles with what children’s literature is and who it is made for

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Tending to the Past

Selfhood and Culture in Children's Narratives about Slavery and Freedom

University Press of Mississippi

How Black writers have circumvented stereotypes to positively portray Black survival, creativity, and autonomy to young readers

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The Velveteen Rabbit at 100

University Press of Mississippi

A new series of engaging and fascinating essays on the beloved children’s classic

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Caribbean Children's Literature, Volume 2

Critical Approaches

University Press of Mississippi

The second installment of an essential anthology on children’s literature of the Caribbean and its diaspora

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Caribbean Children's Literature, Volume 1

History, Pedagogy, and Publishing

University Press of Mississippi

The first installment of an essential anthology on children’s literature of the Caribbean and its diaspora

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Queer Oz

L. Frank Baum's Trans Tales and Other Astounding Adventures in Sex and Gender

University Press of Mississippi

The first scholarly monograph to focus on L. Frank Baum’s portrayals of queerness and sexuality in his more than seventy works of fiction

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African American Adolescent Female Heroes

The Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Neo-Slave Narrative

University Press of Mississippi

A scholarly examination of contemporary neo-slave narratives and their African American heroines

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