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Twenty-First-Century Feminisms in Children's and Adolescent Literature

University Press of Mississippi

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

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Perils of Protection

Shipwrecks, Orphans, and Children's Rights

University Press of Mississippi

An analysis of children’s rights in literature

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Mothers in Children's and Young Adult Literature

From the Eighteenth Century to Postfeminism

University Press of Mississippi

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

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Posthumanism in Young Adult Fiction

Finding Humanity in a Posthuman World

University Press of Mississippi

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

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Graphic Novels for Children and Young Adults

A Collection of Critical Essays

University Press of Mississippi

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

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Reading in the Dark

Horror in Children's Literature and Culture

University Press of Mississippi

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

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Between Generations

Collaborative Authorship in the Golden Age of Children's Literature

University Press of Mississippi

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

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Eleanor H. Porter's Pollyanna

A Children's Classic at 100

University Press of Mississippi

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

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Little Red Readings

Historical Materialist Perspectives on Children’s Literature

University Press of Mississippi

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

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Reading Like a Girl

Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature

University Press of Mississippi

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

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Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss

How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children's Literature

University Press of Mississippi

An illustrated biography of the innovative geniuses who created children’s classics

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