{"title":"Mentalités of Theory in Children's Literature: 1972–2022","authors":"R. Trites","doi":"10.1353/chl.2022.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chl.2022.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:From its inception in 1972, Children's Literature has been involved with conceptualizing literary theories for scholars who study books and films for youth. This essay traces the fifty-year history of the journal's commitment to literary theory through the following stages: 1972-86: appreciation, aesthetics, and awareness; 1986-2000: theorizing children's literature; and 2000-21: theoretical explosions.","PeriodicalId":40504,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature","volume":"50 1","pages":"49 - 62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43256161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Welcoming Black Children into Literary Wildscapes: Wildness in African American Children's Picture Books","authors":"Michelle H. Martin, J. E. Mills","doi":"10.1353/chl.2022.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chl.2022.0014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay confronts the dearth of picture books featuring African American children having immersive outdoor experiences and uses a close analysis of the few that exist to construct a literary framework of African American wildness that offers both a critical and creative understanding of these portrayals.","PeriodicalId":40504,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature","volume":"50 1","pages":"269 - 295"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47834776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theory for Beginners: Children's Literature as Critical Thought by Kenneth Kidd (review)","authors":"Mike Cadden","doi":"10.1353/chl.2022.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chl.2022.0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40504,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature","volume":"50 1","pages":"335 - 339"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66564189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Word Play: Experimental Poetry and Soviet Children's Literature by Ainsley Morse (review)","authors":"Krystal J. Howard","doi":"10.1353/chl.2022.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chl.2022.0020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40504,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature","volume":"50 1","pages":"301 - 304"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43462038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Arctic in Literature for Children and Young Adults ed. by Heidi Hansson, Maria Lindgren Leavenworth and Anka Ryall (review)","authors":"A. Bieber","doi":"10.1353/chl.2022.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chl.2022.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40504,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature","volume":"50 1","pages":"296 - 301"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45888449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Victorian Coral Islands of the Empire, Mission, and the Boys' Adventure Novel by Michelle Elleray (review)","authors":"Alisa Clapp-Itnyre","doi":"10.1353/chl.2022.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chl.2022.0019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40504,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature","volume":"50 1","pages":"304 - 308"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44060809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Catching Tigers: White Childhood Nostalgia and Constructions of Blackness in Little Black Sambo","authors":"Rudrani Sarma","doi":"10.1353/chl.2022.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chl.2022.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article traces the ideological and semiotic meanings of race in five distinct editions of Helen Bannerman's The Story of Little Black Sambo published between 1899 and 1943 to reveal the persistent antiblackness lingering under the guise of nostalgia for the classic storybook and its titular character.","PeriodicalId":40504,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature","volume":"50 1","pages":"121 - 162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47429775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"No Kids Allowed: Children's Literature for Adults by Michelle Ann Abate (review)","authors":"N. Wood","doi":"10.1353/chl.2022.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chl.2022.0025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40504,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature","volume":"50 1","pages":"339 - 343"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45597957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Affirmation, Subversion, Playfulness—Comedy in German Children's Literature","authors":"Ute Dettmar","doi":"10.1353/chl.2022.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chl.2022.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay explores the varieties, functions, and dynamics of the comedy in German children's literature. Starting with two classics of German children's literature—Heinrich Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter and Wilhelm Busch's Max und Moritz—it provides an overview of how texts and images deploy transgressive dynamics of the comic of deviation.","PeriodicalId":40504,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature","volume":"50 1","pages":"222 - 247"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45562131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}