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Contents

1. Volume 40 Number 4 December 2009

Magic Women on the Margins: Eccentric Models in Mary Poppins and Ms Wiz
Cristina Perez Valverde
An examination of two fictional representations of powerful women, from P.L. travers’ 1930s creation, via Disney, to Terence Blacker’s 1980s Ms Wiz

Colonizing Bodies: Corporate Power and Biotechnology in Young Adult Science Fiction
Stephanie Guerra
The interplay of corporations and biotechnology in recent science fiction for young adults

Ted Hughes: The Development of a Children’s Poet
Michael Lockwood
An analysis of how Hughes’s poetry for children developed over time, especially his neglected later works

David Almond’s Skelling: “A New Vista of Contemplation”?
Susan Louise Stewart
David Almond’s response to the debate over evolution and creationism

Postmodern Investigations: The Case of Christopher Boone in The Curious Incident of the Night-time
Stefania Ciocia
Examines how Haddon’s work uses detective fiction in a postmodern way, problematizing the logic of deductive reasoning

From Romance to Magical Realism: Limits and Possibilities in Gay Adolescent Fiction
Thomas Crisp
The dangers of reinscribing heteronormativity in presentations of gay male sexual identity

2. Volume 40 Number 3 September 2009

Capitalism’s New Handmaiden: the Biotechnical World Negotiated Through Children’s Fiction
Naarah Sawers
Contrasting views of selfhood and organ transplantation in Rachel Anderson’s
The Scavenger’s Tale and Nancy Farmer’s The House of the Scorpion

In The Ellison Tradition: In/Visible Bodies of Adolescent and YA Fiction
Susan Louise Stewart
Invisibility and the continued relevance of Ellison’s metaphor in YA literature

“Not Censorship but Selection”: Censorship and/as Prizing
Kenneth Kidd
An historical perspective on anticensorship efforts and their contribution to canon-making



Girlhood, Sexual Violence, and Agency in Francesca Lia Block’s “Wolf”
Elizabeth Marshall
Reading Francesca Lia Block’s revision of “All Fur” and “Little Re Riding Hood” in the pre-service secondary education classroom

Complicating Culture and Difference: Situating Asian American Youth Identities in Lisa Yee’s Millicent Min, Girl Genius and Stanford Wong Flunks Big-time
Rachel Endo
A critical investigation of representations of Asian Americans in Lisa Yee’s award-winning novels

History Writing That’s “Good to Think With”: The Great Fire, Blizzard! and An American Plague
Myra Zarnowski
Developing historical understanding through Jim Murphy’s The Great Fire, Blizzard! and American Plague

3. Volume 40 Number 2 June 2009

“We Cooperate, or We Die”: Sustainable Coexistence in Terry Pratchett’s The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Marek Oziewicz
Terry Pratchett’s The Amazing Maurice explores ecocritical ideas of coexistence across the species barrier

Leaving Mango Street: Speech, Action and the Construction of Narrative in Britton’s Spectator Stance
Katherine Crawfor-Garrett
A Shift from participant to spectator: Esperanza’s narrative escape from Mango Street

Citizenship and Children’s Identity in The Wonderful Adventures of Nils and Scouting for Boys
Bjorn Sundmark
An exploration of the values of citizenship in two early twentieth-century classics, by Selma Lagerlof and Baden-Powell

Northrop Frye in the Elementary Classroom
Glenna Sloan
An eminent student of Northrop Frye connects his major theories to reading and writing pedagogy

“Depend On, Rely On, Count On”: Economic Subjectivities Aboard The Polar Express
Sue Saltmarsh
How Chris Van Allsburg’s book and Bob Zemeckis’s film adaptation privilege a middle-class, consumer-rich version of Christmas

“Spinning Themselves into Poetry”: Images of Urban Adolescent Writers in Two Novels for Young Adults
Kelly Wissman
Two novels by Jacqueline Woodson and Judith Ortiz Cofer viewed through the lens of the New Literacy Studies

4. Volume 40 Number 1 March 2009

Here Comes the (Daughter of the) Bride: Parental Weddings in Two Contemporary Girls’ Series Books
Meghan M. Sweeney
The Baby-Sitters Club and Alice books: Reaffirming a heteronormative view of the world in contemporary YA novels for girls

Co-sleeping and the Importation of Picture Books About Bedtime
Wan-Hsiang Chou
How the importation of Western picture books conflicts with traditional Taiwanese sleeping practices

An Author as a Counter-Storyteller: Applying Critical Race Theory to a Coretta Scott King Award Book
Wanda Brooks
The significance of land-ownership embedded in Coretta Scott-King award winner Mildred Taylor’s The Land

Ecofutures in Africa: Jenny Robson’s Savannah 2116 AD
Elsie Cloete
Robson’s dystopia exposes the short-sightedness of many animal conservation measures

Creative Imagination and Subjective Agency in Wynne-Jones’ The Maestro
Sue Ann Cairns
Envisioning new possibilities for YA identity in Tim Wynne-Jones’ The Maestro

Favorite Reads of 2007-8
Prominent writers and critics select texts which gave them particular pleasure

5. Volume 39 Number 4 December 2008

The Trouble with Rainbow Boys
Thomas Crisp
Heteronormative gender stereotypes or affirmative representations of GLBTQ youth?
Questioning Alex Sanchez’s Rainbow Boys

A Conversation with Alex Sanchez and Lawrence Sipe
Lawrence R. Sipe, North American editor of CLE, in conversation with YA author Alex Sanchez about his popular series and latest work

Fictionalized History in the Philippines: Five Narratives of Collective Amnesia
Will P. Ortiz
How historical fictions of the Philippines are enslaved by a “universal” version of history

Sneaking Out After Dark: Resistance, Agency, and the Postmodern Child in JK Rowling’s Harry Potter Series
Drew Chappell
Children’s critical engagement with the power structures of society in J.K. Rowling’s

“One Day We Had to Run”: The Development of the Refugee Identity in Children’s Literature and its Function in Education
Julia Hope
Understanding the refugee experience by reading children’s literature

Otherness Through Elves: Into Elfland and Beyond
Akiko Yamazaki
Fictional elflands offers humans way of exploring their own Otherness

6. Volume 39 Number 3 September 2008

An Eye for an I: Neil Gaiman’s Coraline and Questions of Identity
David Rudd
A psychoanalytical exploration of this uncanny, award-winning novel

“Spirituous Consolation”: Alcott’s Jokes on Drinking and Religion
Ruth Berman
The satiric humor of Louisa May Alcott

Who Wears the Pants? The (Multi) Cultural Politics of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Kate McInally
Does this much-mooted cult series really promote girl-power, or is it, rather, much-muted?

“I May Be Crackin’, But Um Fackin’”: Racial Humor in The Watsons Go To Brimingham-1963
Jonda C. McNair
Racial jesting in The Watsons Go to Birmingham

Empowering Adolescent Readers: Intertextuality in Three Novels by David Almond
Don Latham
Intertextuality in David Almond’s Skellig, Kit’s Wilderness, and Clay

Musicality in the Language of Picture Books
Robin Heald
Educating the whole child through musical language


7. Volume 39 Number 2 June 2008

An Editor Takes His Leave
Geoff’s friends and colleagues reflect on his contribution to children’s literature

Remembering or Misremembering? Historicity and the Case of So Far from the Bamboo Grove
Sung-Ae Lee
Wider issues are exposed through the examination of a classroom controversy

Beyond Borders: Reading “Other” Places in Children’s Literature
Susan Louise Stewart
Learning to be critical readers of “other places” in children’s literature

Hunting Reynard: How Reynard the Fox Tricked his Way into English and Dutch Children’s Literature
Sanne Parlevliet
The journey of a smart rascal from Middle Dutch tales for adults to modern children’s books

Nightmares, Idylls, Mystery, and Hope: Walk Two Moons and the Artifice of Realism in Children’s Fiction
Lewis Roberts
Sal’s quest for identity in Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons

Forty Years on: Touchstones Now
Michael Benton
Peter Benton
The long life of a poetry series reflection, and resisting, changing times

Using Testimonial Responses to Frame the Challenges and Possibilities of Risky Historical Texts
James Damico
Laura Apol
Testimonial responses to Julius Lester’s From Slave Hip to Freedom Road

8. Volume 39 Number 1 March 2008

The Educational Value of Nasreddin Hodja’s Anecdotes
Bayram Asilioglu
Traditional Turkish tales prove their worth in current classrooms

Power, Language, and Literacy in The Great Gilly Hopkins
Sue Ann Carins
Katherine Paterson’s construction of a “true” narrative identity

The Shaman and the Isness of TO BE
Sharada Bhanu
A journey to the religious traditions of Asia in Russell Hoban’s classic The Mouse and His Child

Power Relationships in Rumpepstiltskin: A Textual Comparison of a Traditional and a Reconstructed Fairy Tale
Jane E. Kelly
A critical multicultural analysis

Becoming a Woman Through Wicca: Witches and Wiccans in Contemporary Teen Fiction
Christine Jarvis
Popular series open up spiritual alternatives to young adult readers

Turtles All the Way: Simulacra and Resistance to Simulacra in Indigenous Teachers’ Discussion of Indigenous Children’s Literature
Teresa Strong-Wilson
Examining the storied formation of Indigenous teachers-as-readers


9. Volume 38 Number 3 September 2007

Holiday Work: On Writing for Children and for the Academy
Charles Butler
A novelist and academic considers how one occupation complements the other

Home: A Feeling Rooted in the Heart
Weimin Mo
Wenju Shen
“Forever foreigners”: Asian American authors forge a culture of hybridity

Mixed Messages: The Problem of Class in Mary Norton’s Borrowers Series
Madelyn Travis
Conflict of cultures-Edwardian attitudes in postwar Britain

Surviving Rescue: A Feminist Reading of Scott O’Dell’s Island of the Blue Dolphins
Diann L. Baecker
Independence and survival in an archetypal rescue narrative

A Journey Backwards: History Through Style in Children’s Fiction
Christopher Ringrose
The essential role of style in securing readers’ engagement with historical fiction

Adolescent Journeys: Finding Female Authority in The Rain Catchers and The House on Mango Street
Christina Rose Dubb
Examines how adolescent girls use literacy to form identity

10. Volume 37 Number 4 December 2006

An Editor’s Farewell
Margaret Mackey

Picturebook Endpapers: Resources for Literacy and Aesthetic Interpretation
Lawrence R. Sipe
Caroline E. McGuire
Exploring the importance of endpapers

Tale of an Innocent
Nicky Singer
A novelist describes the contrasting responses of UK and US publishers to her books

Two is the Beginning of the End: Peter Pan and the doctrine of Reminiscence
Glenda A. Hudson
Plato, Wordsworth, and J.M. Barrie

‘A Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven’: His Dark Materials, Inverted Theology, and the End of Philip Pullman’s Authority
Jonathan Padley
Kenneth Padley
The accuracy of Philip Pullman’s attack upon the Christen God and his church is questioned

Topics of Stress and Abuse in Picture Books for Children
Wendy M. Smith-D’Arezzo
Susan Thompson
How do picture books approach issues of brutality in children’s lives?

Favorite Reads of 2005
Compiled by David Rudd
UK Editorial Committee
Eminent writers and critics remember their outstanding books of 2005

Acknowledgement to Reviewers


11. Volume 37 Number 3 September 2006

Depressive Stories for Children
Nicholas Tucker
An unresolved issue-the potentially depressing influence of some children’s books

The Girls of Central High: How a Progressive Era Book Series for Girls Furthered the Cause of Female Interschool Sport
Ellen Singleton
Social Attitudes revealed through series fiction

Lying in Children’s Fiction: Morality and the Imagination
Christopher Ringrose
Looking at lying from moral and aesthetic perspectives

What We Found on Our Journey through Fantasy Land
Deirdre F. Baker
Preconceptions and priorities of fictional maps

Making the Muscular Briton
Felicity Ferguson
Nineteenth Century reading anthologies as tools for maintain the British Empire

Sanmao, the Vagrant: Homeless Children of Yesterday and Today
Weimin Mo
Wenju Shen
A popular Chinese story speaks to today’s problems

12. Volume 37 Number 2 June 2006

Asian North-American Children’s Literature About the Internment: Visualizing and Verbalizing the Traumatic Thing
Fu-jen Chen
Su-lin Yu
An exploration of six books for young people about the internment of Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians

Sense of Loss, Belonging, and Storytelling: An Anglo-Indian Narrator in The Borrowers
The impact of Anglo-Indian narrators in two classic texts

The Pedagogy and Problems of Jane Andrews’s The Seven Little Sisters Who Lie on the Round Ball that Floats in the Air (1861)
Laureen Tedesco
A new look at a neglected story about children in different cultures

Serial Monogamy: Extended Fictions and the Television Revolution
Margaret Mackey
From print to DVDs-two college series, half a century apart

National Identity in a Multicultural Society: Malaysian Children’s Literature in English
Christina M. Desai
How children’s literature may contribute to the formation of national identity

Leap of Faith: An Interview with Max Velthuijs
Victoria de Rijke
Howard Hollands
A conservation with one of the most acclaimed of contemporary illustrators

13. Volume 37 Number 1 March 2006

Harry Potter and the Terrors of the Toilet
Alice Mills
Diverse functions of the toilet in the famous series

Reading in the Gaps and Lacks: (De) Constructing Masculinity in Louis Sachar’s Holes
Annette Wannamaker
Definitions of masculine and feminine in an old favorite

Paddington Bear: A Case Study of Immigration and Otherness
Angela Smith
A new angle on an iconic hero of British children’s books

Seeing Beyond Sameness: Using The Giver to Challenge Colorblind Ideology
Susan G. Lea
Is Colorblindness possible or desirable in a racialized society?

‘Always the Outlaw’: The Potential for Subversion of the Metanarrative in Retellings of Robin Hood
Geoffrey Gates
Values embedded in six retellings of the old legend

Innocent Victims, Fighter Cells, and White Uncles: A Discourse Analysis of Children’s Books about AIDS
Megan Blumenreich
Marjorie Siegel
An exploration of issues that do and do not get discussed in children’s books

14. Volume 36 Number 4 December 2005

The Black Arts Movement and African Yong Adult Literature: An Evaluation of Narrative Style
Laretta Henderson
Looking at the African American YA canon through the lens of the Black Arts Movement

The Four (or Five?... or Six… or Seven?...) Children’s Books of Graham Greene
Brain Alderson
The picturebook collaborations of Graham Greene and Dorothy Craigie

It “Ain’t” Always So: Sixth Graders’ Interpretations of Hispanic-American Stories with Universal Themes
Peggy S. Rice
Can a strange culture act as a barrier to perceiving themes often regarded as universal?

An Interview with Fiona French
David Lewis
Inside the world of a leading British creator of picturebooks

Faith Ringgold’s Quilts and Picturebooks: Comparison and Contributions
Joyce Millman
An artist movies between media: what can we learn?

Hearing Homer’s Scream Across Three Thousand Years
Bob Lister
The creation and impact of a new oral re-telling

Acknowledgement to Reviewers


15. Volume 36 Number 3 September 2005

A Hundred Years of Peter Pan
Peter Hollindale
Peter Pan on stage and screen

Envisioning Possibility: Schooling and Student Agency in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
John Kornfeld
Laurie Prothro
Stories about school draw children into discussion of their own lives

Watching the Detectives: Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and Kevin Brooks’ Martyn Pig
Ruth Gilbert
Narrators’ use of detective fiction in two prize-winning novels

Utopia Explored: Three Recent Fictionalizations of Fruitlands for Young Readers
Claudia Mills
Three very different accounts of a strange year in the childhood of Louisa May Alcott

The Verse-novel: A New Genre
Joy Alexander
An analytical survey of the form on three continents

Simultaneous Emotions: Entwining Modes in Children’s Books
Mike Cadden
An investigation of mode offers new ways to understand the appeal of Charlotte’s Web, Bridge To Terabithia, and Tuck Everlasting

16. Volume 36 Number 2 June 2005

History Run Wild: The Alternate World of Joan Aiken’s The Wolves of Willoughby Chase Series
Isobel Dams
From Willoughby Chase to Clatteringshaws

Contemporary Ghost Stories: Cyberspace in Fiction for Children and Young Adults
Marla Harris
The disembodiment that is inherent in many new technologies finds a role in books for young people

Fairy-tale Retellings between Art and Pedagogy
Vanessa Joosen
The interplay between feminist criticism and re-worked fairy tales

Children’s Metafiction, Readers, and Reading: Building Thematic Models of Narrative Comprehension
Don K. Philpot
Theories of how we build narrative comprehension clarify discussion of The View from Saturday

Launching dunno
Peter Inson
From the origins of a self-published novel to its launch on the subway

Unwrapping the Pojagi: Traditional Values and Changing Times in a Survey of Korean-American Juvenile Literature
Belinda Y. Louie
A rich variety of stories from a very specific culture

17. Volume 36 Number 1 March 2005

“O Bottom, Thou Art Translated”: Directing a Bilingual Dream in the Marshall Islands
Andrew Garrod
A unique student production of The Dream in the Marshall Islands

Renewed but not Redeemed: Revising Elsie Dinsmore Diane Carver Sekeres
A nineteenth century exploring heroine finds a new stage

Talking Tolkien: The Elvish Craft of CGI
Mark Sinker
A conversation exploring both books and films of Tolkien’s famous trilogy

Missed Opportunities: Subordination of Children in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials
Kristine Moruzi
Pullman’s great trilogy may undervalue children

The Life and Fiction of Antonia Forest
Sue Sims
A Retrospective consideration of an author who divided critical opinion

Safe Discussions Rather Than First Hand Encounters: Adolescents Examine Racism Through One Historical Fiction Text
Wanda Brooks
Gregory Hampton
A new way of looking at reader responses to Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry


18. Volume 35 Number 4 December 2004

Sympathy for the Devil
Melvin Burgess
A personal view from one of the most controversial writers for teenagers

Orson Scott Card’s Ender and Bean: The Exceptional Child as Hero
Christine Doyle
Extraordinary heroes make an impact in two related novels

Visual Narrativity in the Picture Book: Heinrich Hoffmann’s Der Struwwelpeter
Elisabeth Wesseling
A new reading of one of the most enduring classic picture books

Mutiny by Mutation: Uses of Neoteny in Science Fiction
Susan Honeyman
Different theories of childhood lead to different ways of writing and reading

Subversion or Socialization? Humor and Carnival in Morris Gleitzman’s Texts
Kathryn James
Culture, value, and meaning in Morris Gleitzman humorous books for children

Acknowledgement to Reviewers


19. Volume 35 Number 3 September 2004

Educating Without Overwhelming: Authorial Strategies in Children’s Holocaust Literature
Sarah D. Jordan
Children’s literature offers a variety of routes into sensitive and upsetting territory

“Whacked-Out Partners”: The Inversion of Empathy in the Joey Pigza Trilogy
Marah Guber
A humorous and unpatronizing reversal of common stereotypes in children’s literature about the disabled

Disturbing the Peace: The Function of Young Adult Literature and the Case of Catherine Atkins’ When Jeff Comes Home
Amy S. Pattee
An exploration of conventional ideas and expectations and how they function in young adult literature

Who’s Afraid of the Bad Little Fowl?
Celia Keenan
A close analysis of Eoin Colfer’s best-selling Artemis Fowl series

The Curious Incidence of Novels About Asperger’s Syndrome Bill Greenwell
Reasons for the success od a runaway British best-seller

An Afterward from Nicholas Tucker
Nicholas Tucker

20. Volume 35 Number 2 June 2004

Inescapable Bodies, Disquieting Perception: Why Adults Seek to Tame and Hardness Swift’s Excremental Satire in Gulliver’s Travels
Jackie E. Stallcup
Why is a children’s “classic” so reduced before being handed to children?

Grace and Dorothy: Collisions of Femininity and Physical Activity in Two Early Twentieth-Century Book Series for Girls
Ellen Singleton
Adventurous girls run into a culture and turn to femininity to save the day

Ella Evolving: Cinderella Stories and the Construction of Gender-Appropriate Behavior
Linda T. Parsons
Four Cinderella stories provide different models for both boys and girls

Sonya Hartnett’s Thursday’s Child: Readings
Judith Armstrong and David Rudd
Varying readings of an intriguing text from Australia

C. Walter Hodges: A Life Illustrating History
Matthew Eve
A comprehensive introduction to the life and work of an internationally famous illustrating novelist

21. Volume 35 Number 1 March 2004

The Long, Long Way: Young Children Explore the Fabula and Synuzhet Of Shortcut
Sylvia Pantaleo
Very young children make sense of metafiction

Rose Blanche in Tarnslation
Susan Stan
Translating a complex war story involves more that finding the words

The Politics of Terror: Rereading Harry Potter
Courtney B. Strimel
Fantasy and moral ambiguity combine to offer a safe space for children to consider issues of terror

Reading Lessons from the Eighteenth Century
Morag Styles and Evelyn Arizpe
A fascinating insight into some handmade 18th century educational materials

The Great Tunes of the Hough: Music and Songs in Alan Garner’s the Stone Book Quartet
Sarah Godek
Music, song and the resolution of conflict in a modern classic

“Solid All the Way Through”: Margaret Mahy’s Ordinary Witches
Alison Waller
The use of witchcraft as a motif in the novels of an internationally acclaimed author

22. Volume 34 Number 4 December 2003

The All-White World of Middle-School Genre Fiction: Surveying the Field for Multicultural Protagonists
Denise E. Agosto
Sandra Hughes-Hassell, and Catherine Gilmore-Clough
A disturbing trend in genre fiction for young people

‘He’s behind you!’: Reflections on Repetition and Predictability in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
Bruce Butt
Lemony Snicket-inventive delight or formulaic exploitation?

From Author to Protagonists: Stories of Self-Identity Development
Weimin Mo and Wenju Shen
The challenges of acculturation as described in two stories about children torn between Chinese and American ways

Ancestral Voices-‘Since Time Everlasting Beyond’: Kipling and the Invention of the Time-Slip Story
Linda Hall
The rooted pleasures of Kipling’s time-slip stories.

Acknowledgement to Reviewers

23. Volume 34 Number 3 September 2003

The Last Dragon of Earthsea
Peter Hollindale
An account of the changing principles and attitudes at the core of Le Buin’s powerful series

Historical Fiction and the Classroom: History and Myth in Elizabeth George Speare’s The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Sara L. Schwebel
A classic of American classrooms re-visited

“Ahoy Me Hearties?” Captain Pugwash, Bits of Movable Paper, and the Bible: A Tribute to John Ryan
Matthew Eve
In celebration of an artist whose work has delighted children for more that 50 years

The Magic of Harry Potter: Symbols and Heroes of Fantasy
Sharon Black
Why heroes matter to two young readers

New Anticipations of Past
Judith Armstrong
Revisiting a well-loved novel of childhood proves to be less simple that it seemed

24. Volume 34 Number 2 June 2003

A Tribute to Signal
Peter Hunt
David Lewis
Jane Doonan
Lissa Paul
Sheila Ray
Maureen Cargo
Hugh Cargo
Elaine Moss
Peter Hollindale
Margaret Meek
In praise of a widely influential journal

Little Women Out to Work: Women and the Marketplace in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women and Work
Janis Dawson
Louisa May Alcott is famous as a writer of domestic scenes, but she also has a great deal to say about the world of work for nineteenth-century women

Carnivals, the Carnivalesque, The Magic Puddin’, and David Almond’s Wild Girl, Wild Boy: Toward a Theorizing of Children’s Plays
Rosemary Ross Johnston
Theorizing a rarely discussed area of children’s literature

Humor, Simplicity, and Experimentation in the Picture Books of Jon Agee
Kristin Cashore
Jon Agee’s self-authored picture books: invention, experimentation and imagination at work

25. Volume 34 Number 1 March 2003

“Cinderella Was a Wuss”: A Young Girl’s Responses to Feminist and Patriarchal Folktales
Ann M. Trousdale
Sally McMillian
At age 8 and again at age 12, one girl reacts to four different folktales

Little Women, Good Wives: Victorian Constructions of Womanhood in the Girl’s Own Annual 1927
Lesley Delaney
Victorian values lie beneath the contemporary surface of a prestigious 1920’s annual for girls

Story as a Bridge to Transformation: The Way Beyond Death in Philip Pullman’s The Amber Spyglass
Millicent Lenz
An examination of mortaility in the third book of Pullman’s trilogy

Capitalist Bears and Socialist Modernization: Chinese Children’s Literature in the Post-Mao Period
Lijun Bi
Chinese children’s books in the last quarter of the twentieth century

Diversity in Children’s Literature: Not Just a Black and White Issue
Wendy M. Smith-D’Arezzo
How do we assess books about children with disabilities?
























































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