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This is the first comprehensive look at African-American picture books from the mid- nineteenth century to today.
Donnarae MacCann and Yulisa Maddy here provide a thorough and provocative analysis of South African children's literature during the key decade around Nelson Mandela's release from prison.
Traces the representation of West Indian characters in British children's literature from 1700 onwards, challenging traditional notions of British children's literature as mono-cultural by illuminating the contributions of colonial and postcolonial-era Black British writers.
This book examines the representation of English working-class children, the youthful inhabitants of the poor urban neighbourhoods that a number of writers dubbed "darkest England", in Victorian and Edwardian imperialist literature.
In this controversial study of postwar German's children's books, Zohar Shavit reveals a troubling perspective on the German understanding of the Holocaust.
Explains how testing, which is more pervasive than ever, champions basic skills over appreciation of literary merit, and creates a great demand for suitably neutral (bland, inoffensive) texts that are anything but worthwhile in terms of the kind of intellectual and emotional pleasure that provides the motivation for being literate.
This book examines young reader's narratives about Nazism and the Holocaust in terms of the official as well as the understated motivations of their authors.
The first full-length study of Beatrix Potter's entire oeuvre, examining her books by drawing parallels with her private life.
Extends the range of critical engagement with children's fiction by exploring the feminine subject in paradigm texts by Margaret Mahy and Gillian Cross.
Argues that the Victorians created a concept of adolescence that lasted into the twentieth century and yet is strikingly at odds with post-Second World War notions of adolescence as a period of 'storm and stress'.
Looking at myths, legends, fables, folk and fairy tales, fractured tales, fictional stories, and nonfiction from 1500 to the present, the author identifies and analyzes the cultural, social, and scientific knowledge embedded in and imparted through the image of the wolf in over 250 books.
Offers a historical analysis of key classical translated works for children, such as writings by Hans Christian Andersen and Grimms' tales. This book traces the role of the translator and the impact of translations on the history of English-language children's literature from the ninth century onwards.
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