A Companion to Children's Literature

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A COMPANION TO CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

Contents

List of Figures

Guide

Pages

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

1 Juvenile Nonfiction before the Golden Age of Anglo-American Children’s Literature

A Cultural Preference for Nonfiction

Types of Nonfiction and Where They Came From

Religion

Instruction

Information

Conclusion

REFERENCES

2 The Beginnings of Fiction for Children

International Markets

Genres: Domestic Fiction

Genres: School Stories and Other Developmental Tales

Genres: Adventure, Victorian and Otherwise

Genres: Fantasy

REFERENCES

FURTHER READING

3 Folklore in Children’s Literature

Putting Tales in Print

Controversial Tales

Interpreting Tales

REFERENCES

4 The Victorian Picturebook

Zooming Out: Key Figures and Milestones

Zooming In: Word, Image, Sequence, Gaps

Conclusion

NOTES

REFERENCES

5 The Child-Centered Universe of Nineteenth-Century Children’s Nonfiction

Natural Philosophy, Science, and Religion

Geography, Travel, and History

Exemplary Lives and Biography

NOTES

REFERENCES

6 Developments in Fiction for Children

The Shaping of a (Non-)Field

Developing Diversity

Fantasy and the “Real World”

Series Books

Early Readers

REFERENCES

7 Developments of Picturebooks

Introduction: Some Preliminary Considerations

Looking Backward and Forward: The First Years after World War II

The 1950s and 1960s as Trailblazers for New Trends in Picturebook Art

The Surge of Pop Art Picturebooks and Other Experiments in Picturebook Design

Blurring the Boundaries between Art Forms, Media Formats, and the Audience

Conclusion: The Picturebook in Education and Academia

REFERENCES

8 Walt Disney and the Fairy Tale

From Shorts to Feature Films

Romancing the Tropes

Fairy-tale Theme Parks

The Disney Brand

REFERENCES

9 Stay Tuned: A Political History of Saturday Morning Cartoons

From Animation to Cartoons

Saturday Morning Cartoons Come of Age

A Golden Age for Saturday Morning Cartoons?

The Demise of Saturday Morning Cartoons

NOTES

REFERENCES

10 Live-Action Films for Children

REFERENCES

11 BreakBeat and the New Auditory Avant-garde – for Children! (Or, That New-fangled Noise the Kids Are All Going On About)

NOTES

REFERENCES

12 Children’s Literature of the Anglophone Caribbean

The Precursors to and Earliest Forms of Literacy and Literature

The Oral Tradition

The Introduction of Formal Education

The Status of Independence

Emergent Caribbean Literature. Folktales

Fiction

Poetry

General Characteristics

The Present Landscape

Themes and Trends in the Literature

NOTES

REFERENCES

FURTHER READING

13 Children’s Information Books: Initiatives and Trends

Introduction

Common Core and the Nonfiction Epiphany

Nonfiction Walks the Red Carpet

Nonfiction: What’s under the Hood?

Rethinking Information … and Spine Labels

Conclusion: From Nonfiction to Information

NOTES

REFERENCES

CHILDREN’S WORKS REFERENCED

14 Contemporary Trends in Fiction for Children

The Problem of Aetonormativity: (Anti)-childism and “Growing Up”

Bringing the Past into the Present: Hauntings, Slipstreams, and the Like

The Dual Audience: Writing for the “Hidden Adult”

The Rise and Fall of Rapid Serialization: The 1990s and Series Fiction

#WeNeedDiverseBooks, Again and Again: The Stubborn Dearth of Diversity

Whither Children’s Literature?: Something like a Conclusion

NOTES

REFERENCES

15 Contemporary Poetry for Children: Toward Diversity, Complexity, and Innovation

It’s Time for Diverse, Complex, and Innovative Poetry for Children

From Formal Variety to Formal Innovation: Toward the Verse Novel

The Centrality and Promise of Brown Girl Dreaming

Conclusion: Toward Poetry By Children

NOTES

REFERENCES: LITERARY TEXTS

REFERENCES: CRITICISM AND REFERENCE

16 Picturebook Futures

At the Turn of the Millennium

The Story App: It’s [Not] a Book!

So, What Is a Picturebook in the Digital Age (and Does Bader’s Definition Still Work)? Text, Illustrations, Total Design

An Item of Manufacture and Commercial Product

A Social, Cultural, Historical Document

Foremost an Experience for a Child

Looking Further and Deeper

REFERENCES:PRIMARY LITERATURE

REFERENCES: SECONDARY LITERATURE

17 Postmodern Fairy Tales

Introduction

Disruption of the Fairy-tale Storyworld

Disruption of Narrative Strategies

Frame-breaking

Role of the Narrator

Narrative Point of View

Disruption to Gender Roles

Conclusion

NOTES

REFERENCES

18 Theatre and Playwriting for Young Audiences

Introduction

Theatre for Adults vs Theatre for Young Audiences

Creation of Plays

Creating and Presenting Plays for Young Audiences

Historical Significance

TYA Classifications

TYA Subcategories and Specializations

Access, Inclusion, and Related Production Considerations

New Play Development

Getting Published and Produced

The Business of TYA

Conclusion

REFERENCES

19 The Portrayal of Girlhoods in Graphic Narratives for Children

Graphic Narratives and The Politics of Pictures

Sexual Violence and Graphic Feminist Pedagogies

Girlhood and Intersectionality

Visual Ciphers and Social Violence

Critical Questions for Reading Graphic Narratives of Girlhood

REFERENCES

20 Playing Children’s Literature: Games in and the Gamification of Books for Kids

Across Time and Media: A History of Games and Children’s Texts

Games and Play: Defining the Field of Study

Games in Books, Books as Games

NOTES

REFERENCES: TEXTS FOR CHILDREN

REFERENCES: SCHOLARSHIP AND THEORY

21 Digital Children’s Literature: Current Understandings and Future Directions

The Spectrum of Digital Children’s Literature

Similar to Print Books

Somewhere in the Middle

PICTUREBOOK APPS

MOTION BOOKS

AUGMENTED REALITY APPLICATIONS

TRANSMEDIAL TEXTS

Similar to Other Media

Expanding Ideas of Literature and of Text

Interactive Components

Considerations for Researchers, Teachers, and Readers

Layers of Complexity

Need for Multiple Theoretical Perspectives

Audience

Quality and Expense

Conclusion

REFERENCES

22 Critical Multiculturalism and Children’s Literature: Trends and Possibilities

Multiculturalism

Critical Multiculturalism: A Framework for Reading, Studying, and Teaching Children’s Literature

The Case for Critical Multicultural Analysis of Children’s Literature

What Is Currently Happening in Critical Multiculturalism and Children’s Literature?

What Other Possibilities Might Expand Discourses in Critical Multiculturalism?

A Critical Multicultural Analysis of Rabinowitz’s A Boy and A Jaguar

Discourses of Ableism

The Boy’s Agency

Discussion

NOTES

REFERENCES

23 Cultural Diversity and Social Justice: Readings from the South

Whiteness and Eurocentric Exchanges

Decolonial Epistemologies

New Territories to Imagine

Acknowledgment

NOTES

REFERENCES

24 Black Critical Theory in Children’s Literary Analysis: Why It Matters

Why BlackCrit?

Articulating the Multivariant Range of Blackness

Beyond Multiculturalism

Racial Theorizing in Children’s Literature

Countering Multicultural Racism with BlackCrit

Black Assemblages in Children’s Literature

BlackCrit and the Black Diaspora in Children’s Literature

Conclusion

NOTES

REFERENCES: CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

REFERENCES

25 Critical Discourse Studies and the Scholarship of Children’s Literature

Introduction

Critical

Discourse

Analysis

Our Survey

Critical Discourse Studies and Children’s Literature: An Overview

Critical Content Analysis and Children’s Literature

CDA and Children’s Literature

Critical Multimodal Analyses

Children and Teachers Studying Children’s Literature with CDA: An Illustrated Example

Provocations and Future Directions

REFERENCES

26 Disability

Fairy Tales: The Early Nineteenth Century

The School of Pain: 1837–1920

The Age of Institutions: 1920–1975

The Age of Deinstitutionalization: 1950–1980

The Disability Rights Era Begins: 1980–2000

The Twenty-First Century: New Genres and Future Directions

Mainstreaming Stories

Magical Disabilities

Graphic Memoirs

Autistic Detectives

Future Directions

REFERENCES

27 Growing Up Together: Children’s Literature and Women’s Studies

Imposed Realism and the Little House Books

Growing into Feminine Ideals with Ramona

Fairy Tales and the Case of Cinder Edna

Resistance with Margaret

REFERENCES

28 Read, Write, Play, Review: Young Children’s Connected Reading Communities

Introduction

Research on Reading

Protecting Children Online

Children as Content Creators

Children as Reading Influencers

Play, Watch, Read, Shop

Play

Watch

Read

Shop

Conclusion

REFERENCES

29 Posthumanism

REFERENCES

30 Narrative Theory and Children’s Literature

Character

Anthropomorphism

Narration

Author–Reader Communication

Readers, Implied and Real

Ethics

Plot and Framing

Metafiction

Paratext

A New Direction

REFERENCES

FURTHER READING

SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUES ON NARRATIVE THEORY AND CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

31 Animal Studies

NOTES

REFERENCES: PRIMARY

REFERENCES: SECONDARY

32 Trauma Studies

How Do We Recognize Traumatic Experience?

The Moral Complexity of Traumatic Memory

“I’m Only a Kid”: Traumatic Memory, Child Witnesses, and Children’s Agency

NOTES

REFERENCES

33 Censorship and Children’s Literature

What is Censorship?

A History of Censorship of Children’s Literature

Who Censors Children’s Literature?

On Innocence

Tabula Rasa

Latency

Why Do People Censor Children’s Books?

Future Developments

Conclusions

REFERENCES

FURTHER READING

34 The Commodification, “Diversification,” and Walliams-fication of the British Children’s Book Market

Conglomeration and Contraction

Classics, Best Sellers, and Celebrity Authors

A Thriving Market or A Walliams-fest?

Pandemic Reading: [Familiar] Books as “Essential Items”

The Commodification of “Diversity”

Conclusion

NOTES

REFERENCES

Index

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Melanie Ramdarshan Bold is a senior lecturer/associate professor at the University of Glasgow, where she teaches and researches children’s and young adult (YA) literature and book culture. Her research specialism is inclusive youth literature and book culture, with a particular focus on the representation of people of color, and the experiences of authors and readers of color. Melanie has published widely on the topic, alongside numerous publications about contemporary book culture. Her book Inclusive Young Adult Fiction: Authors of Colour in the United Kingdom, 2006–2016, was published in 2019. Melanie’s interest in youth literature and book culture extends beyond academia. She was a judge on the UKYA book prize and the Scottish Teenage Book Prize, and is on the Advisory Boards for the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) Reflecting Realities project, the Pop-up Pathways into Children’s Publishing project, and Literature Alliance Scotland, and works with a number of cultural organizations across the United Kingdom.

Rebecca Rogers is the E. Desmond Lee Professor of Tutorial Education at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Her research and teaching focus on literacy studies, preparing teachers to be culturally and linguistically responsive, and critical discourse studies.

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