They Also Write for Kids

By Suzanne Manizza Roszak
Categories: Literature
Series: Cultures of Childhood

Outside the world of children’s literature studies, children’s books by authors of well-known texts “for adults” are often forgotten or marginalized. Although many adults today read contemporary ...

At Risk

By Jennifer Griffiths
Categories: Literature
Series: Cultures of Childhood

Jennifer Griffiths's At Risk: Black Youth and the Creative Imperative in the Post–Civil Rights Era focuses on literary representations of adolescent artists as they develop strategies to intervene against ...

Containing Childhood

Edited by Danielle Russell
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

Contributions by Miranda A. Green-Barteet, Kathleen Kellett, Andrew McInnes, Joyce McPherson, Rebecca Mills, Cristina Rivera, Wendy Rountree, Danielle Russell, Anah-Jayne Samuelson, Sonya Sawyer Fritz, ...

A Centennial Celebration of The Brownies’ Book

Edited by Dianne Johnson-Feelings & Jonda C. McNair
Foreword by Rudine Sims Bishop
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

Contributions by Jani L. Barker, Rudine Sims Bishop, Julia S. Charles-Linen, Paige Gray, Dianne Johnson-Feelings, Jonda C. McNair, Sara C. VanderHaagen, and Michelle Taylor Watts

The Brownies’ Book occupies ...

Harry Potter and the Other

Edited by Sarah Park Dahlen & Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

Contributions by Christina M. Chica, Kathryn Coto, Sarah Park Dahlen, Preethi Gorecki, Tolonda Henderson, Marcia Hernandez, Jackie C. Horne, Susan E. Howard, Peter C. Kunze, Florence Maätita, Sridevi ...

The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books

By Jennifer Miller
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

In The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books, Jennifer Miller identifies an archive of over 150 English-language children’s picture books that explicitly represent LGBTQ+ identities, ...

Open at the Close

Edited by Cecilia Konchar Farr
Categories: Literature

Contributions by Lauren R. Carmacci, Keridiana Chez, Kate Glassman, John Granger, Marie Schilling Grogan, Beatrice Groves, Tolonda Henderson, Nusaiba Imady, Cecilia Konchar Farr, Juliana Valadão Lopes, ...

Equipping Space Cadets

By Emily Midkiff
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

2022 Longlist Nominee for the Best Non-Fiction Award from the British Science Fiction Association

Equipping Space Cadets: Primary Science Fiction for Young Children argues for the benefits and potential ...

The Green Mister Rogers

By Sara Lindey & Jason King
Foreword by Junlei Li
Categories: Media Studies
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

Fred Rogers was an international celebrity. He was a pioneer in children’s television, an advocate for families, and a multimedia artist and performer. He wrote the television scripts and music, performed ...

Little Women at 150

Edited by Daniel Shealy
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

Contributions by Beverly Lyon Clark, Christine Doyle, Gregory Eiselein, John Matteson, Joel Myerson, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, Anne K. Phillips, Daniel Shealy, and Roberta Seelinger Trites

As the golden ...