Overview

This handbook provides a comprehensive review of the research and practice of engaging with children's and young adult literature in education. Drawing across scholarship focused on genre, creation, and utilization of children's literature, it provides a unique perspective on the role that children's literature can play in educational spaces from age 2 to 18, and from picture books to YA literature. The volume is divided into two main sections: first, a review of the history of children's literature and its application in education; and second, a discussion of methodological approaches for studying children's literature in educating young people - particularly in relation to critical literacy and multimodality. The chapters cover a range of topics including diversity, intersectionality, transactional theory, representation, trauma-informed pedagogy, anti-racism, immigration, folk and fairy tales and more. Written by leading scholars based in Australia, the US, Norway, South Korea, and the UK, the handbook represents the global use of children's literature in schools, revealing connections across international contexts while also honoring the differences in how literature is conceptualized and utilized across the world.

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This handbook is a benchmark contribution that invites readers to reconsider the important role of children’s and young adult literature in educational spaces. Addressing key topics in research and criticism and covering a host of genres such as comics, picturebooks, poetry, series fiction, and middle-grade novels, the essays combine novel conceptual approaches with close readings in a comprehensive manner. * Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, University of Tübingen, Germany * The Bloomsbury Handbook of Children’s and Young Adult Literature in Education is written by international scholars based in Australia, Canada, Egypt, Norway, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The diversity of authorship, and the breadth and depth of a range of topics about children’s literature, contribute to the uniqueness of this handbook. The handbook is edited by children’s literature scholars-Katrina Bartow Jacobs and Patricia A. Crawford-who are leading experts in this field. In a time when there is so much contention regarding children’s literature and censorship within schools, this handbook is timely and refreshing. For me, the strength of the handbook is the range of topics, such as inclusivity in children’s literature, global perspectives on children’s literature, multimodal nature of literature, and the immigrant experience in transnational literature. This handbook is an essential resource for educators and scholars seeking to navigate and contribute to the evolving discourse on children’s literature in an interconnected world. * Jan Lacina, Ph.D. Professor of Literacy & Bezos Family Foundation Endowed Chair for Early Childhood Education Texas Christian University *

This handbook is a benchmark contribution that invites readers to reconsider the important role of children’s and young adult literature in educational spaces. Addressing key topics in research and criticism and covering a host of genres such as comics, picturebooks, poetry, series fiction, and middle-grade novels, the essays combine novel conceptual approaches with close readings in a comprehensive manner. * Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, University of Tübingen, Germany *

Author Information

Katrina Bartow Jacobs is Associate Professor of Practice, Language, Literacy and Culture at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. Patricia Crawford is Professor of Early Childhood, Language, Literacy and Culture at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.

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