ABSTRACT
This landmark volume is the first to bring together leading scholarship on children’s and young adult literature from three intersecting disciplines: Education, English, and Library and Information Science. Distinguished by its multidisciplinary approach, it describes and analyzes the different aspects of literary reading, texts, and contexts to illuminate how the book is transformed within and across different academic figurations of reading and interpreting children’s literature.
- Part one considers perspectives on readers and reading literature in home, school, library, and community settings.
- Part two introduces analytic frames for studying young adult novels, picturebooks, indigenous literature, graphic novels, and other genres. Chapters include commentary on literary experiences and creative production from renowned authors and illustrators.
- Part three focuses on the social contexts of literary study, with chapters on censorship, awards, marketing, and literary museums.
The singular contribution of this Handbook is to lay the groundwork for colleagues across disciplines to redraw the map of their separately figured worlds, thus to enlarge the scope of scholarship and dialogue as well as push ahead into uncharted territory.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |3 pages
Part 1 THE READER
chapter |16 pages
Children Reading at Home: An Historical Overview
chapter |16 pages
The Book as Home? It All Depends
chapter |15 pages
Reading Literature in Elementary Classrooms
chapter |13 pages
School Libraries and the Transformation of Readers and Reading
chapter |13 pages
Immigrant Students as Cosmopolitan Intellectuals
part |2 pages
Part 2 THE BOOK
chapter |16 pages
History of Children’s and Young Adult Literature
chapter |14 pages
Dime Novels and Series Books
chapter |16 pages
Folklore in Children’s Literature: Contents and Discontents
chapter |18 pages
The Art of the Picturebook
chapter |19 pages
Comics and Graphic Novels
chapter |13 pages
Genre as Nexus: The Novel for Children and Young Adults
chapter |16 pages
Young Adult Literature: Growing Up, In Theory
chapter |14 pages
Reading Indigeneity: The Ethics of Interpretation and Representation
chapter |15 pages
Ideology and Children’s Books
chapter |12 pages
The Author’s Perspective
part |2 pages
Part 3 THE WORLD AROUND