An illustrated biography of the innovative geniuses who created children’s classics

How novels targeted at teens engage narrator and reader in intimate dramas of friendship, love, identity, and sexuality

A compelling case for the need to analyze children's literature from a Marxist perspective

A thorough examination of the context and impact of the irrepressibly optimistic literary darling

How children and adults collaborated to create some of the most beloved works in literature

Considerations of horror from Struwwelpeter to Coraline, Shrek, and Monsters, Inc.

An examination of the tremendous influence and power of US comics for youth in the twenty-first century

A tracking of the fascinating connections between adolescence and the concerns of posthumanism

From didactic nursery rhymes to Coraline and The Hunger Games, an engagement with the vital figure of the mother

An analysis of children's rights in literature

A revelation of the powerful alternative to sexism offered by children’s literature

The first English-language study of Aleksandr Volkov and his Magic Land series

A thoroughly researched and critical examination of Wilder's entire body of work and problematic legacy

A critical study of the perceptions of two similar but separate genres in young adult literature

Essays exploring how Asian American adolescents form identity in YA fiction

A necessary expansion of the lens and landscape of young adult literature

Amuch-needed intervention into the critical study of Chicanx and Latinx young adult literature

A critical volume dedicated to children's film adaptation

An exploration of the symbolic role food plays in children’s literature

A new perspective on an explosively popular subgenre of young adult media