Newly published research monograph on the novel of initiation in English and German children’s literature (written in German), published by Winterverlag.
Here is the link to the book
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Book on Roald Dahl (Laura Viñas Valle, “De-constructing Dahl“, 2016) is now available in paperback. For more info about the book, please visit here
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Edition 25.1 of Papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature has just gone live – link.
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New book published by John Benjamins: Maps and Mapping in Children’s Literature.
Landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes. (Eds. Nina Goga and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer)
Anna Katrina Gutierrez: Mixed Magic. Global-local dialogues in fairy tales for young readers.
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The Bloomsbury Introduction to Children’s Literature is coming out in November, and with this flyer, can be preordered for the great price of 22.07 USD. Here is the TOC, so you can see what it covers:
Ideologies of Childhood and History of Children’s Literature
Contemporary Insights into Child and Adolescent Development
Thinking Theoretically about Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Poetry and Poetic Language
Reading (with) Pictures
Thinking about Story
Drama, Film, New Media, Oh My!: Children’s and Young Adult Literature on Stage and Screens
Tales We Live By (folk literature, myths, epics, and sagas)
“The web itself is a miracle”: Nonfiction and Informational Literature
9 ¾) The In-Betweens of Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Narrative Fiction: As Real as it Gets?
Are We Posthuman Yet? Fantasy and Speculative Fiction
Entering the Professional Conversation
Each chapter has suggestions and resources for further reading, writing prompts, multimodal responses, online explorations, a case study, and an “author talkback”.
Bloomsbury Introduction to Children’s and Young Adult Lit