Pinocchio Goes Postmodern

Perils of a Puppet in the United States

By Richard Wunderlich, Thomas J. Morrissey

In the first full-length study in English of Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, the authors show how the checkered history of the puppet illuminates...

Published April 18th 2008 by Routledge.

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Miyake: Japan in English Books for Boys and Girls, 1819–1935

Edited by Okiko Miyake

How do we acquire specific images about other countries? In part, they are formed through unintentional childhood familiarization. This facsimile reprint collection of fourteen juvenile...

Published April 15th 2008 by Edition Synapse.

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Enterprising Youth

Social Values and Acculturation in Nineteenth-Century American Children’s Literature

Edited by Monika Elbert

Enterprising Youth examines the agenda behind the shaping of nineteenth-century children’s perceptions and world views and the transmission of civic duties and social values to...

Published April 15th 2008 by Routledge.

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The Children Who Lived

Using Harry Potter and Other Fictional Characters to Help Grieving Children and Adolescents

By Kathryn A. Markell, Marc A. Markell

Harry Potter’s encounters with grief, as well as the grief experiences of other fictional characters, can be used by educators, counselors, and parents to help...

Published April 14th 2008 by Routledge.

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The Family in English Children’s Literature

By Ann Alston

From the trials of families experiencing divorce, as in Anne Fine’s Madame Doubtfire, to the childcare problems highlighted in Jacqueline Wilson’s Tracy Beaker, it might...

Published April 3rd 2008 by Routledge.

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From Nursery Rhymes to Nationhood

Children's Literature and the Construction of Canadian Identity

By Elizabeth Galway

As Canada came to terms with its role as an independent nation following Confederation in 1867, there was a call for a literary voice to...

Published March 31st 2008 by Routledge.

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Children's Books for Grown-Up Teachers

Reading and Writing Curriculum Theory

By Peter Appelbaum

Teachers and prospective teachers read children's books, but that reading is often done as a "teacher" – that is, as planning for instruction – rather...

Published December 20th 2007 by Routledge.

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The Fantasy of Family

Nineteenth-Century Children's Literature and the Myth of the Domestic Ideal

By Elizabeth Thiel

The myth of the Victorian family remains a pervasive influence within a contemporary Britain that perceives itself to be in social crisis. Nostalgic for a...

Published October 30th 2007 by Routledge.

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Representing Africa in Children's Literature

Old and New Ways of Seeing

By Vivian Yenika-Agbaw

Representing Africa in Children’s Literature explores how African and Western authors portray youth in contemporary African societies, critically examining the dominant images of Africa and...

Published October 29th 2007 by Routledge.

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Reading Victorian Schoolrooms

Childhood and Education in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

By Elizabeth Gargano

Reading Victorian Schoolrooms examines the numerous schoolroom scenes in nineteenth-century novels during the fraught era of the Victorian education debates. As Gargano argues, the fiction...

Published October 11th 2007 by Routledge.

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