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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An essential study on portrayals of D/deaf experiences in children’s literature and popular culture

A critical exploration of space in children’s literature and how those spaces affect child characters and readers

A celebration of the beloved and consequential children’s magazine

A fascinating reconsideration of the depictions and implications of race and diversity in the Harry Potter franchise

A foundational look at the way children’s books shaped views of the LGBTQ+ world

A scholarly exploration of how children’s books embrace and wrestle with the science fiction genre

An in-depth exploration of the environmentalism in the beloved children’s television program

A new exploration of the lasting affection and appreciation of the beloved children’s novel

Through the lens of literature and film for and about students, a critique of what neoliberalism unleashed in schools

How young adult stories interrogate and enrich our understandings of what disability means

A study of nineteenth-century young adult literature that refocuses the history of girls’ books and female adolescence in the United States and Germany

A delightful journey into the heart of the many meanings behind that silly old bear

A theory of how authors position readers in relation to literary character through empathy, awe, and indifference

A wrestling with the faults and possibilities of the portrayals of race in this powerful genre

A groundbreaking study on the impact of Puerto Rican children’s literature and culture

An examination of the diverse ways in which children’s literature and film contribute to intergenerational bonding and solidarity

A new perspective on an explosively popular subgenre of young adult media

An exploration of the symbolic role food plays in children’s literature

A critical volume dedicated to children’s film adaptation

Amuch-needed intervention into the critical study of Chicanx and Latinx young adult literature

A necessary expansion of the lens and landscape of young adult literature

Essays exploring how Asian American adolescents form identity in YA fiction

A critical study of the perceptions of two similar but separate genres in young adult literature

A thoroughly researched and critical examination of Wilder’s entire body of work and problematic legacy

The first English-language study of Aleksandr Volkov and his Magic Land series

A revelation of the powerful alternative to sexism offered by children’s literature

An analysis of children’s rights in literature

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

A tracking of the fascinating connections between adolescence and the concerns of posthumanism

An examination of the tremendous influence and power of US comics for youth in the twenty-first century

Considerations of horror from Struwwelpeter to Coraline, Shrek, and Monsters, Inc.

How children and adults collaborated to create some of the most beloved works in literature

A thorough examination of the context and impact of the irrepressibly optimistic literary darling

A compelling case for the need to analyze children’s literature from a Marxist perspective

How novels targeted at teens engage narrator and reader in intimate dramas of friendship, love, identity, and sexuality