Children's literature studies: general books

An easy-to-use source for librarians, students and other researchers, each volume in this series provides illustrated...  Read More >>

How did the 'flat' characters of eighteenth-century children's literature become 'round' by the mid-nineteenth?...  Read More >>

The Cuthberts of Green Gables asked for a boy from the orphanage to help them out around the farm, so they are rather...  Read More >>

Examining novels by authors such as Eliza Haywood, Tobias Smollett, and Elizabeth Inchbald, and referencing case...  Read More >>

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Making use of masculinity theories, this title focuses on Victorian and Edwardian adventure fiction. Beginning with...  Read More >>

Traces how 19th-century debates about the human and animal intersected with the venerable genre of the animal story...  Read More >>

This wonderful book continues the story of young Anne Shirley, popular heroine and mischievous orphan, as she sets...  Read More >>

In Recasting the Past: An Early Modern Tales of Ise for Children Laura Moretti offers a critical edition, translation...  Read More >>

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Donald E. Pease captures the life of Theodor Geisel in full, offering fresh insights into the sources of Geisel's...  Read More >>

Applying critical race theory to contemporary African American children’s and young adult literature, this book...  Read More >>

Frido ist eigentlich ein ganz normaler, liebenswerter Elch. Aber Frido friert. Und das immer. Also versucht er einiges...  Read More >>

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Simon Winchester turns his unrivaled talents to revealing the significance of the intriguing photograph whose subject...  Read More >>

Eight Children in Narnia is a detailed study of C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia  Read More >>

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Despite Kipling's popularity as an author and his standing as a politically controversial figure, much of his work...  Read More >>

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Re-examines conventional ideas of the history of childhood, exploring the child's prominence in eighteenth-century...  Read More >>

Researchers have neglected the cultural history of education and as a result women's educational works have been...  Read More >>

In The Classics and Children's Literature between West and East a team of contributors from different continents...  Read More >>

The further adventures of Diane the Turtle. Written by twin brothers Jim and Brad Tonner who have owned Diane since...  Read More >>

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