Forthcoming Children's Literature Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Children’s Literature and New York City

   Edited by Keith O'Sullivan, Padraic Whyte

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   This book visits the significance of New York City in children’s literature, stressing literary, political, and societal influences on writing for young people from the twentieth century to the present day. Contextualized in light of contemporary critical and cultural theory, the chapters examine...

   To Be Published August 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Apartheid and Racism in South African Children's Literature 1985-1995

   By Donnarae MacCann, Yulisa Amadu Maddy

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
3. Consuming Agency in Fairy Tales, Childlore, and Folkliterature

   By Susan Honeyman

   Series: Routledge Studies in Folklore and Fairy Tales

   In this book Honeyman looks at manifestations of youth agency (and representations of agency produced for youth) as depicted in fairy tales, childlore and folk literature, investigating the dynamic of ideological manipulation and independent resistance as it can be read or expressed in bodies...

   To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
4. Children and Cultural Memory in Texts of Childhood

   Edited by Heather Snell, Lorna Hutchison

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   This book addresses the interplay between nationalism and cultural memory in a range of texts both for and about young people. The volume is concerned with how cultural memory is shaped, contested, forgotten, recovered, and (re)circulated, sometimes in opposition to dominant national narratives,...

   To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge
5. Picturebooks: Representation and Narration

   Edited by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   This volume discusses the aesthetic and cognitive challenges of modern picturebooks from different countries, such as Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, and USA. The overarching issue concerns the mutual relationship between representation and narration by means of the...

   To Be Published October 14th 2013 by Routledge
6. Genocide in Contemporary Children’s and Young Adult Literature

   Cambodia to Darfur

   By Jane Gangi

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   This book studies children’s and young adult literature of genocide since 1945, considering issues of representation and using postcolonial theory to provide both literary analysis and implications for educating the young. Many of the authors visited accurately and authentically portray the...

   To Be Published October 29th 2013 by Routledge
7. Laura Ingalls Wilder

   American Writer on the Prairie

   By Sallie Ketcham

   Series: Routledge Historical Americans

   To Be Published January 31st 2014 by Routledge
8. The Critical Merits of Young Adult Literature

   Coming of Age

   Edited by Crag Allen Hill

   This examination of the literary and pedagogical effectiveness of young adult literature from a critical, research-oriented perspective answers the nagging questions many teachers and scholars in the field are confronted with: Does young adult literature stand up on its own as literature? Is it...

   To Be Published February 28th 2014 by Routledge
9. Discourses of Postcolonialism in Contemporary British Children's Literature

   By Blanka Grzegorczyk

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   This book considers how contemporary British children’s books engage with some of the major cultural debates of recent years, and how they resonate with the current preoccupations and tastes of the white mainstream British reading public. A central assumption of this volume is that Britain’s...

   To Be Published February 28th 2014 by Routledge