{"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":null,"pages":null},"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":"Young Adult Gothic Fiction: Monstrous Selves/Monstrous Others ed. by Michelle J. Smith and Kristine Moruzi (review)","authors":"Sara Austin","doi":"10.1353/chl.2022.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chl.2022.0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40504,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44559183","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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":"Children's Literature and Children's Literature Scholarship: The British Perspective","authors":"P. Hunt","doi":"10.1353/chl.2022.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chl.2022.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Children's book scholars in the early 1970s had limited resources and no recognition in universities. This paper describes the academic context of the first appearance of Children's Literature and the reactions to it. Its influence then and now is attested by the personal opinions of scholars who were there at the time and younger scholars who use the journal today.","PeriodicalId":40504,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45217990","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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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}
{"title":"Dust Off the Gold Medal: Rediscovering Children's Literature at the Newbery ed. by Sara L. Schwebel and Jocelyn Van Tuyl (review)","authors":"J. Marchant","doi":"10.1353/chl.2022.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chl.2022.0021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40504,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47934865","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":"Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture by Derritt Mason (review)","authors":"Jennifer Miller","doi":"10.1353/chl.2022.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chl.2022.0022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40504,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48029854","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}