Children's Literature and Culture
About the Book Series
Founding Editor and Series Editor 1994-2011: Jack Zipes
Series Editor, 2011-2018: Philip Nel
Founded by Jack Zipes in 1994, Children's Literature and Culture is the longest-running series devoted to the study of children’s literature and culture from a national and international perspective. Dedicated to promoting original research in children’s literature and children’s culture, in 2011 the series expanded its focus to include childhood studies, and it seeks to explore the legal, historical, and philosophical conditions of different childhoods. An advocate for scholarship from around the globe, the series recognizes innovation and encourages interdisciplinarity. Children's Literature and Culture offers cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections considering topics such as gender, race, picturebooks, childhood, nation, religion, technology, and many others. Titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
Dust Off the Gold Medal: Rediscovering Children’s Literature at the Newbery Centennial
1st Edition
Edited
By Sara L. Schwebel, Jocelyn Van Tuyl
May 31, 2023
The oldest and most prestigious children’s literature award, the Newbery Medal has since 1922 been granted annually by the American Library Association to the children’s book it deems "most distinguished." Medal books enjoy an outsized influence on American children’s literature, figuring...
Pinocchio, Puppets, and Modernity: The Mechanical Body
1st Edition
Edited
By Katia Pizzi
May 31, 2023
This study assesses the significance of Pinocchio in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in addition to his status as the creature of a nineteenth century traversed by a cultural enthusiasm for dummies, puppets, and marionettes. This collection identifies him as a figure characterized by a '...
Poetics and Ethics of Anthropomorphism: Children, Animals, and Poetry
1st Edition
By Christopher Kelen, Jo Chengcheng
May 31, 2023
Poetics and Ethics of Anthropomorphism: Children, Animals, and Poetry investigates a kind of poetry written mainly by adults for children. Many genres, including the picture book, are considered in asking for what purposes ‘animal poetry’ is composed and what function it serves. Critically ...
Sexuality in Literature for Children and Young Adults
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Venzo, Kristine Moruzi
January 09, 2023
Expanding outward from previous scholarship on gender, queerness, and heteronormativity in children’s literature, this book offers fresh insights into representations of sex and sexuality in texts for young people. In this collection, new and established scholars examine how fiction and non-fiction...
Antarctica in British Children’s Literature
1st Edition
By Sinead Moriarty
May 30, 2022
For over a century British authors have been writing about the Antarctic for child readers, yet this body of literature has never been explored in detail. Antarctica in British Children’s Literature examines this field for the first time, identifying the dominant genres and recurrent themes and ...
ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature: Brown and Nerdy
1st Edition
By Cristina Herrera
April 29, 2022
ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature analyzes novels by the acclaimed Chicana YA writers Jo Ann Yolanda Hernández, Isabel Quintero, Ashley Hope Pérez, Erika Sánchez, Guadalupe García McCall, and Patricia Santana. Combining the term "Chicana" with "nerd," Dr. Herrera coins the term "...
Rulers of Literary Playgrounds: Politics of Intergenerational Play in Children’s Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Irena Kalla
April 29, 2022
Rulers of Literary Playgrounds: Politics of Intergenerational Play in Children’s Literature offers multifaceted reflection on interdependences between children and adults as they engage in play in literary texts and in real life. This volume brings together international children’s literature ...
Children and Cultural Memory in Texts of Childhood
1st Edition
Edited
By Heather Snell, Lorna Hutchison
December 13, 2021
The essays in this collection address the relationship between children and cultural memory in texts both for and about young people. The collection overall is concerned with how cultural memory is shaped, contested, forgotten, recovered, and (re)circulated, sometimes in opposition to dominant ...
Terror and Counter-Terror in Contemporary British Children’s Literature
1st Edition
By Blanka Grzegorczyk
December 13, 2021
The widespread threat of terrorist and counter-terrorist violence in the twenty-first century has created a globalized context for social interactions, transforming the ways in which young people relate to the world around them and to one another. This is the first study that reads post-9/11 and 7/...
The Arctic in Literature for Children and Young Adults
1st Edition
Edited
By Heidi Hansson, Maria Leavenworth, Anka Ryall
September 30, 2021
As a setting for juvenile literature, the Arctic has traditionally been a space for adventure, the exotic and the fantastic. More recent works have used the Arctic setting to explore a dystopian future, often related to climate change. The aim of the present volume is to examine themes in Arctic ...
Cyborg Saints: Religion and Posthumanism in Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction
1st Edition
By Carissa Smith
June 30, 2021
Saints are currently undergoing a resurrection in middle grade and young adult fiction, as recent prominent novels by Socorro Acioli, Julie Berry, Adam Gidwitz, Rachel Hartman, Merrie Haskell, Gene Luen Yang, and others demonstrate. Cyborg Saints: Religion and Posthumanism in Middle Grade and Young...
Out of Reach: The Ideal Girl in American Girls’ Serial Literature
1st Edition
By Kate Harper
June 30, 2021
Out of Reach: The Ideal Girl in American Girls’ Serial Literature traces the journey of the ideal girl through American girls’ series in the twentieth century. Who is the ideal girl? In what ways does the trope of the ideal girl rely on the exclusion and erasure of Othered girls? How does the ...