1/24: History

Arizpe, Evelyn and Styles, Morag, with Brice Heath, Shirley (2006) Reading Lessons from the Eighteenth Century: Mothers, Children and Texts, Lichfield: Pied Piper.

Beckett, Sandra L. (ed.) (1997) Reflections of Change. Children's Literature Since 1945, Westport CT: Greenwood.

Boone, Troy (2004) Youth of Darkest England. Working Class Children at the Heart of Victorian Empire, New York and London: Routledge.

Carpenter, Humphrey (1985) Secret Gardens. The Golden Age of Children's Literature, London: Allen and Unwin.

Clark, Beverly Lyon (2003) Kiddie Lit: The Cultural Construction of Children's Literature in America, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Joosen, Vanessa, and Vloebergs, Katrien (eds.) (2006) Changing Concepts of Childhood and Children’s Literature, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press.

Lerer, Seth (2008) Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter, Chicago: Chicago University Press.

Marcus, Leonard S. (2008) Minders of Make Believe. Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children’s Literature, Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Montgomery, Heather and Watson, Nicola J. (eds.) (2009) Children’s Literature: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

1/31: Author/ity

Beckett, Sandra L. (ed.) (1999) Transcending Boundaries: Writing for a Dual Audience of Children and Adults, New York and London: Garland.

Greenway, Betty (ed.) (2005) Twice-Told Tales. The Influence of Childhood Reading on Writers for Adults, London and New York: Routledge.

Nodelman, Perry (2008) The Hidden Adult. Defining Children’s Literature, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Otten, Charlotte F. and Schmidt, Gary D. (eds.) (1989) The Voice of the Narrator in Children's Literature: Insights from Writers and Critics, Westport, CT: Greenwood.

Susina, Jan (2009) The Place of Lewis Carroll in Children’s Literature, New York: Routledge.

2/7: Ideology and Cultural Studies

Christian-Smith, Linda K. (ed.) (1993) Texts of Desire: Essays on Fiction, Femininity and Schooling, London: Falmer Press.

Daniel, Carolyn (2006) Voracious Children. Who Eats Whom in Children’s Literature, New York and London: Routledge.

Dorfman, Ariel (1993) The Empire’s Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar and Other Innocent Heroes do to Our Minds, New York: Pantheon.

Erisman, Fred (2006) Boys’ Books, Boys’ Dreams and the Mystique of Flight, Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press.

Stephens, John (1992) Language and Ideology in Children’s Fiction, London: Longman.

2/14: Readers and Reading

Crago, Hugh and Crago, Maureen (1983) Prelude to Literacy: A Pre-school Child’s Encounter with Picture and Story, Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.

Falconer, Rachel (2008) The Crossover Novel. Contemporary Children’s Fiction and its Adult Readership, New York and London: Routledge.

Meek, Margaret (1988) How Texts Teach What Readers Learn, South Woodchester: Thimble Press.

Morgenstern, John (2009) Playing With Books. A Study of the Reader as Child, Jefferson, NC: Mcfarland.

Styles, Morag, Bearne, Eve and Watson, Victor (eds.) (1996) Voices Off: Texts, Contexts and Readers, London: Cassell.

2/21: Access

Blake, Andrew (2002) The Irresistible Rise of Harry Potter: Kid-Lit in a Globalised World, London: Verso.

Davies, Maria González, and Oittinen, Riitta (2008) Whose Story? Translating the Verbal and the Visual in Literature for Young Readers, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press.

Lathey, Gillian (ed.) (2006) The Translation of Children’s Literature. A Reader, Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

Zipes, Jack (2001) Sticks and Stones. The Troublesome Success of Children’s Literature from Slovenly Peter to Harry Potter, New York and London: Routledge.

2/28: Subjectivity and Identity

Cherland, Meredith Rogers (1994) Private Practices: Girls Reading Fiction and Constructing Identity, London: Taylor and Francis.

Coats, Karen (2004) Looking Glasses and Neverlands: Lacan, Desire, and Subjectivity in Children’s Literature, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.

McCallum, Robyn (1999) Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction: The Dialogic Construction of Subjectivity, New York: Garland.

3/7: Textuality

Golden, Joanne M. (1990) The Narrative Symbol in Childhood Literature. Exploration in the Construction of Text, Berlin: Mouton.

Goodenough, Elizabeth et al (eds.) (1994) Infant Tongues: the Voices of the Child in Literature, Detroit: Wayne State University Press.

McCallum, Robyn and Stephens, John (1998) Retelling Stories, Framing Culture. Traditional Story and Metanarratives in Children's Literature, New York and London: Garland.

Nikolajeva, Maria (2000) From Mythic to Linear. Time in Children’s Literature, Lanham, MD.: Scarecrow.

Nikolajeva, Maria (2002) The Rhetoric of Character in Children’s Literature, Lanham, MD: Scarecrow.

Nikolajeva, Maria (2005) Aesthetic Approaches to Children’s Literature: an Introduction, Lanham, MD: Scarecrow.

Wall, Barbara (1991) The Narrator's Voice. The Dilemma of Children's Fiction, London: Macmillan.

3/14: Genre

Agnew, Kate and Fox, Geoff (2001) Children at War: from the First World War to the Gulf, London: Continuum.

Applebaum, Nolga (2010) Representations of Technology in Science Fiction for Young Children, New York: Routledge.

Hume, Kathryn (1984) Fantasy and Mimesis: Responses to Reality in Western Literature, New York: Methuen.

Hunt, Peter and Lenz, Millicent (2001) Alternative Worlds in Fantasy Fiction, London and New York: Continuum.

Natov, Roni (2003) The Poetics of Childhood, London and New York: Routledge.

3/21: Difference

Bishop, Rudine Sims (2007) Free Within Ourselves: the Development of African American Children’s Literature, Westport, CT: Greenwood.

Botelho, Maria José and Rudman, Masha K. (2009) Critical Multicultural Analysis of Children’s Literature, New York and London: Routledge.

Bottalla, Paola, and Santini, Monica (eds.) (2009) What are Little Boys and Girls Made Of? Gender Issues in Children’s Literature, Padova: Unipress.

Bradford, Clare (2007) Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children’s Literature, Waterloo, ONT: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

Cart, Michael and Jenkins, Christine A. (2006) The Heart has its Reasons: Young Adult Literature with Gay/Lesbian/Queer Content 1969-2004, Lanham: Scarecrow.

Clark, Beverly Lyon and Higonnet, Margaret R. (1999) Girls Boys Books Toys: Gender in Children’s Literature and Culture, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Kidd, Kenneth B. (2004) Making American Boys: Boyology and the Feral Male, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Lehr, Susan S. (ed.) (2001) Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: The Construction of Gender in Children’s Literature, Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Lester, Neal A. (2007) Once Upon a Time in a Different World. Issues and Ideas in African American Children’s Literature, New York and London: Routledge

Mallan, Kerry (2009) Gender Dilemmas in Children’s Fiction, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Martin, Michelle H. (2002) Brown Gold. Milestones of African American Picture Books, 1845-2002, New York and London: Routledge.

Rountree, Wendy (2008) Just Us Girls: the Contemporary African American Young Adult Novel, New York: Peter Lang.

Smith, Katharine Capshaw (2004) Children’s Literature of the Harlem Renaissance, Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Stephens, John (ed.) (2002) Ways of being Male: Representing Masculinities in Children’s Literature and Film, New York and London: Routledge.

Trites, Roberta Seelinger (1997) Waking Sleeping Beauty. Feminist Voices in Children's Novels, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.

Wannamaker, Annette (2008) Boys in Children’s Literature and Popular Culture, Masculinity, Abjection, and the Fictional Child, New York and London: Routledge.

4/4: Visual

Arizpe, Evelyn and Styles, Morag (2003) Children Reading Pictures. Interpreting Visual Texts, London: Routledge Falmer.

Barker, Martin (1989) Comics: Ideology, Power and the Critics, Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Bearne, Eve and Styles, Morag (2002) Art, Narrative and Childhood, Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham.

Benton, Mike (1990), The Comic Book in America, Dallas, TX: Taylor.

Carrington, Bridget, and Harding, Jennifer (2010) Going Graphic: Comics and Graphic Novels for Young People, Lichfield: Pied Piper.

Evans, Janet (2009) Talking Beyond the Page: Reading and Responding to Picturebooks, London: Routledge.

Lewis, David (2001) Picturing Text: the Contemporary Children’s Picturebook, London: RoutledgeFalmer.

Lowe, Virginia (2007) Stories, Pictures and Reality, London: Routledge.

Nikolajeva, Maria and Scott, Carole (2001) How Picture Books Work, New York and London: Garland.

Nodelman, Perry (1988) Words About Pictures: The Narrative Art of Children’s Picture Book, Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.

Sipe, Lawrence R. and Pantaleo, Sylvia (2008) Postmodern Picturebooks. Play, Parody and Self-Referentiality, New York and London: Routledge.

4/11: YA

Beckett, Sandra L. (2009) Crossover Fiction, Global and Historical Perspectives,

New York and London: Routledge.

Cart, Michael (1996/2010) From Romance to Realism: 50 Years of Growth and Change in Young Adult Literature, New York: HarperCollins.

Hintz, Carrie and Ostry, Elaine (2009) Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults, London and New York: Routledge.

James, Kathryn (2009) Death, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Adolescent Literature, New York and London: Routledge.

Trites, Roberta Seelinger (2000) Disturbing the Universe: Power and Repression in Adolescent Literature, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.

Trites, Roberta Seelinger (2007) Twain, Alcott, and the Birth of the Adolescent Reform Novel, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.

Waller, Alison (2008) Constructing Adolescence in Fantastic Realism , New York and London: Routledge.

4/18: Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction, and Storytelling

Bedard, Roger L. (ed.) (1984) Dramatic Literature for Children: A Century in Review, New Orleans: Anchorage Press.

Chambers, Nancy (ed.) (2009) Poetry for Children. The Signal Award 1979-2001, South Woodchester: Thimble Press.

Collins, Fiona M., and Ridgman, Jeremy (eds.) (2006) Turning the Page: Children’s Literature in Performance and the Media, Bern: Peter Lang.

Colomer, Teresa, Kümmerling-Meibauer, Bettina, and Silva-Díaz, Cecilia (eds.) (2010) New Directions in Picturebook Research, London: Routledge.

Dias, Patrick and Hayhoe, Mike (1988) Developing Response to Poetry, Milton Keynes: Open University Press.

Hateley, Erica (2009) Shakespeare in Children’s Literature. Gender and Cultural Capital, New York and London: Routledge.

Reynolds, Kimberley (ed.) (2003) Children’s Literature and Childhood in Performance Lichfield: Pied Piper.

Styles, Morag (1998) From the Garden to the Street. Three Hundred Years of Poetry for Children, London: Cassell.

Thomas, Joseph T. (2007) Poetry’s Playground: the Culture of Contemporary American Children’s Poetry, Detroit: Wayne State University Press.

Zipes, Jack (1995) Creative Storytelling - Building Community, Changing Lives, New York and London: Routledge.

Zipes, Jack (2009) Relentless Progress. The Reconfiguration of Children’s Literature, Fairy Tales, and Storytelling, New York and London: Routledge.

4/25: Media

Bell, Elizabeth, Haas, Lynda, and Sells, Laura (eds.) (1995) From Mouse to Mermaid: the Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture, Bloomington: Indian University Press.

Flanagan, Victoria (2008) Into the Closet: Cross-Dressing and the Gendered Body in Children’s Literature and Film, London and New York: Routledge.

Kinder, Marsha (1999) (ed.) Kids’ Media Culture, Durham NC and London: Duke University Press.

Mackey, Margaret (2002/2007) Literacies Across Media: Playing the Text, rev, edn., New York and London: Routledge.

Morris, Tim (2000) You're Only Young Twice: Children, Literature and Film, Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Wojcik-Andrews, Ian (2002) Children’s Films: History, Ideology, Pedagogy, Theory, New York and London: Garland.

5/2: Last Day Wrap-up

Ewers, Hans-Heino (2009) Fundamental Concepts of Children’s Literature Research: Literary and Sociological Approaches, New York and London: Routledge.

Grenby, M. O. and Immel, Andrea (eds.) (2009) The Cambridge Companion to Children’s Literature, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.