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