Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Where Have We Come From? Where Are We Heading? 1
4. Part I: Contemporary Directions in Children’s Literature Scholarship
5. 1 Teaching the Confl icts: Diverse Responses to Diverse Children’s Books 13
6. 2 Posthumanism: Rethinking ‘The Human’ in Modern Children’s Literature 29
7. 3 Animal Studies 42
8. 4 Spatiality in Fantasy for Children 55
9. 5 A Question of Scale: Zooming Out and Zooming In on Feminist Ecocriticism 70
10. 6 Age Studies and Children’s Literature 79
11. 7 Carnality in Adolescent Literature 90
12. 8 Cognitive Narratology and Adolescent Fiction 102
13. 9 Empirical Approaches to Place and the Construction of Adolescent Identities 112
14. 10 Picturebooks and Situated Readers: The Intersections of Text, Image, Culture and Response 124
15. 11 Re-memorying: A New Phenomenological Methodology in Children’s Literature Studies 136
16. Part II: Contemporary Trends in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
17. 12 Canons and Canonicity 153
18. 13 Seriality in Children’s Literature 167
19. 14 Counterfactual Historical Fiction for Children and Young Adults 179
20. 15 Pattern, Texture and Print: New Technology, Old Aesthetic in Contemporary Picturebook-Making 194
21. 16 Telling Stories in Different Formats: New Directions in Digital Stories for Children 203
22. 17 Multimodality and Multiliteracies: Production and Reception 217
23. 18. Serendipity, Independent Publishing and Translation Flow: Recent Translations for Children in the UK 232
24. 19 The Picturebook in Instructed Foreign Language Learning Contexts 245
25. Part III: Unmapped Territories
26. 20 Next of Kin: ‘The Child’ and ‘The Adult’ in Children’s Literature Theory Today and Tomorrow 265
27. 21 Critical Plant Studies and Children’s Literature 274
28. 22 Health, Sickness and Literature for Children 281
29. 23 Evolutionary Criticism and Children’s Literature 289
30. 24 The Genetic Study of Children’s Literature 298
31. 25 Distant Reading and Children’s Literature 305
32. 26 Hogwarts versus Svalbard: Cultures, Literacies and Game Adaptati ons of Children’s Literature 314
33. 27 Hybrid Novels for Children and Young Adults 329
34. 28 Cyberspace and Story: The Impact of Digital Media on Printed Children’s Books 336
35. Coda: Alice to the Lighthouse Revisited 342
36. Notes on Contributors 355
37. Index 360