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Cadden's work provides a valuable structure for exploring issues central to the study of children's and young adult literature: authorial power and ethical implications of representation. . . . Most rewardingly, Cadden succeeds in defining how character operates in children's and young adult fiction in a way that sets it apart from other forms of literature.--Jennifer Mooney ""International Journal of Young Adult Literature"" The book is insightful and easy to read. Revisiting stories of childhood through Cadden's lens is exciting.--P.D. Hopkins ""CHOICE"" At Arm's Length presents its central device of the dial of character modulation so persuasively and enjoyably that readers will find their fingers twitching to spin it themselves into a host of fruitful discussions of how we understand character in children's and young adult literature.--Claudia Mills ""Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Volume 46, Number 4, Winter 2021"" In At Arm's Length, Cadden has provided a strong, original work that will help scholars articulate with precision how authors manipulate distance in children's texts. Cadden offers a useful tool for a close reading of characters as devices, a perspective sorely lacking in contemporary criticism in the field.--Karen Coats, coeditor of Mothers in Children's and Young Adult Literature: From the Eighteenth Century to Postfeminism

Cadden's work provides a valuable structure for exploring issues central to the study of children's and young adult literature: authorial power and ethical implications of representation. . . . Most rewardingly, Cadden succeeds in defining how character operates in children's and young adult fiction in a way that sets it apart from other forms of literature.--Jennifer Mooney International Journal of Young Adult Literature The book is insightful and easy to read. Revisiting stories of childhood through Cadden's lens is exciting.--P.D. Hopkins CHOICE At Arm's Length presents its central device of the dial of character modulation so persuasively and enjoyably that readers will find their fingers twitching to spin it themselves into a host of fruitful discussions of how we understand character in children's and young adult literature.--Claudia Mills Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Volume 46, Number 4, Winter 2021 In At Arm's Length, Cadden has provided a strong, original work that will help scholars articulate with precision how authors manipulate distance in children's texts. Cadden offers a useful tool for a close reading of characters as devices, a perspective sorely lacking in contemporary criticism in the field.--Karen Coats, coeditor of Mothers in Children's and Young Adult Literature: From the Eighteenth Century to Postfeminism

The book is insightful and easy to read. Revisiting stories of childhood through Cadden's lens is exciting.--P.D. Hopkins CHOICE At Arm's Length presents its central device of the dial of character modulation so persuasively and enjoyably that readers will find their fingers twitching to spin it themselves into a host of fruitful discussions of how we understand character in children's and young adult literature.--Claudia Mills Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Volume 46, Number 4, Winter 2021 In At Arm's Length, Cadden has provided a strong, original work that will help scholars articulate with precision how authors manipulate distance in children's texts. Cadden offers a useful tool for a close reading of characters as devices, a perspective sorely lacking in contemporary criticism in the field.--Karen Coats, coeditor of Mothers in Children's and Young Adult Literature: From the Eighteenth Century to Postfeminism

In At Arm's Length, Cadden has provided a strong, original work that will help scholars articulate with precision how authors manipulate distance in children's texts. Cadden offers a useful tool for a close reading of characters as devices, a perspective sorely lacking in contemporary criticism in the field.--Karen Coats, coeditor of Mothers in Children's and Young Adult Literature: From the Eighteenth Century to Postfeminism

The book is insightful and easy to read. Revisiting stories of childhood through Cadden's lens is exciting.--P.D. Hopkins CHOICE In At Arm's Length, Cadden has provided a strong, original work that will help scholars articulate with precision how authors manipulate distance in children's texts. Cadden offers a useful tool for a close reading of characters as devices, a perspective sorely lacking in contemporary criticism in the field.--Karen Coats, coeditor of Mothers in Children's and Young Adult Literature: From the Eighteenth Century to Postfeminism

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Mike Cadden is professor of English and director of childhood studies at Missouri Western State University. He is a former president of the Children's Literature Association. He is author of Ursula K. Le Guin Beyond Genre: Fiction for Children and Adults and editor of Telling Children's Stories: Narrative Theory and Children's Literature and Teaching Young Adult Literature.

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