While most scholars who study children's books are pre-occupied with the child characters and adult mediators, Vanessa Joosen re-positions the lens to focus on

Analyzes six popular children's books to define the genre and explains ways that adult experience and expectations can change the meaning of the text.

Edited by Morag Styles and written by an interational team of acknowledged experts, this series provides jargon-free, critical discussion and a comprehensive gu

Abate examines how board books, coloring books, bedtime stories, and series detective fiction written and published specifically for adults question the boundar

Focusing on questions of space and locale in children’s literature, this collection explores how metaphorical and physical space can create landscapes of powe