Children's Literature Association Series

General editor: Teya Rosenberg, Department of English, Texas State University, San Marcos

Books in this series include critical assessments of books, authors, illustrators, presses, and other entities involved in children's and young-adult literature. Projects may include single-author monographs, edited collections of essays, or critical editions of classics.

Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an unlikely couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and transformed children's Literature

Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature

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On the Horizon: Scotty and Elvis

When Elvis Presley first showed up at Sam Phillips’s Memphis-based Sun Records studio, he was a shy teenager in search of a sound. Phillips invited a local guitarist named Scotty Moore to stand in. Scotty listened carefully to the young singer and immediately realized that Elvis had something special.  Along with bass player Bill Black, the trio recorded an old blues number called “That’s All

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