Handbook of Research on Children's and Young Adult Literature

This landmark volume is the first to bring together leading scholarship on children’s and young adult literature from three intersecting disciplines: Education, English, and Library and Information Science. Distinguished by its multidisciplinary approach, it describes and analyzes the different aspects of literary reading, texts, and contexts to illuminate how the book is transformed within and across different academic figurations of reading and interpreting children’s literature. Part one considers perspectives on readers and reading literature in home, school, library, and community settings. Part two introduces analytic frames for studying young adult novels, picturebooks, indigenous literature, graphic novels, and other genres. Chapters include commentary on literary experiences and creative production from renowned authors and illustrators. Part three focuses on the social contexts of literary study, with chapters on censorship, awards, marketing, and literary museums. The singular contribution of this Handbook is to lay the groundwork for colleagues across disciplines to redraw the map of their separately figured worlds, thus to enlarge the scope of scholarship and dialogue as well as push ahead into uncharted territory.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 The Reader; Chapter 1 Children Reading at Home, Evelyn Arizpe, Morag Styles; Chapter 2 Questioning the Value of Literacy, Eva-Maria Simms; Chapter 3 The Book as Home? It All Depends, Shirley Brice Heath; Chapter 4 Reading Literature in Elementary Classrooms, Kathy G. Short; Chapter 5 Readers, Texts, and Contexts in the Middle, Thomas P. Crumpler, Linda Wedwick; Chapter 6 Reading Literature in Secondary School, Cynthia Lewis, Jessica Dockter; Chapter 7 Imagining a Writer’s Life, Elizabeth Dutro, Monette C. McIver; Chapter 8 Teaching Latina/o Children’s Literature in Multicultural Contexts, María E. Fránquiz, Carmen Martínez-Roldán, Carmen I. Mercado; Chapter 9 School Libraries and the Transformation of Readers and Reading, Eliza T. Dresang, M. Bowie Kotrla; Chapter 10 Public Libraries in the Lives of Young Readers, Paulette M. Rothbauer, Virginia A. Walter, Kathleen Weibel; Chapter 11 Becoming Readers of Literature with LGBT Themes, Mollie V. Blackburn, Caroline T. Clark; Chapter 12 Immigrant Students as Cosmopolitan Intellectuals, Gerald Campano, María Paula Ghiso; Part 2 The Book; Chapter 13 History of Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Deborah Stevenson; Chapter 13a Point of Departure, Lois Lowry; Chapter 14 Dime Novels and Series Books, Catherine Sheldrick Ross; Chapter 14a Point of Departure, Candice Ransom; Chapter 15 Folklore in Children’s Literature, Betsy Hearne; Chapter 15a Point of Departure, Julius Lester; Chapter 16 African American Children’s Literature, Rudine Sims Bishop; Chapter 16a Point of Departure, Jacqueline Woodson; Chapter 17 The Art of the Picturebook, Lawrence R. Sipe; Chapter 17a Point of Departure, Chris Raschka; Chapter 17b Point of Departure, David Wiesner; Chapter 18 Comics and Graphic Novels, Robin Brenner; Chapter 18a Point of Departure, Gareth Hinds; Chapter 18b Point of Departure, Raina Telgemeier; Chapter 19 A Burgeoning Field or a Sorry State, Laura Apol, Janine L. Certo; Chapter 19a Point of Departure, Janet S. Wong; Chapter 20 Nonfiction Literature for Children, Barbara Kiefer, Melissa I. Wilson; Chapter 20a Point of Departure, Penny Colman; Chapter 21 Genre as Nexus, Mike Cadden; Chapter 21a Point of Departure, Philip Pullman; Chapter 22 Young Adult Literature, Karen Coats; Chapter 22a Point of Departure, Markus Zusak; Chapter 23 Reading Indigeneity, Clare Bradford; Chapter 23a Point of Departure, Joseph Bruchac; Chapter 24 Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Children’s Literature, and the Case of Jeff Smith, Roderick McGillis; Chapter 24a Point of Departure, David Filipi; Chapter 24b Point of Departure, Lucy Shelton Caswell, David Filipi, Jeff Smith; Chapter 25 Ideology and Children’s Books, Robyn McCallum, John Stephens; Chapter 25a Point of Departure, M. T. Anderson; Chapter 26 The Author’s Perspective, Claudia Mills; Chapter 26a Point of Departure, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor; Chapter 27 Archives and Special Collections Devoted to Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Karen Nelson Hoyle; Chapter 27a Point of Departure, Leonard S. Marcus; Part 3 The World Around; Chapter 28 Where Worlds Meet, Ana Maria Machado; Chapter 28a Point of Departure, Katherine Paterson; Chapter 29 Translation and Crosscultural Reception, Maria Nikolajeva; Chapter 29a Point of Departure, Tara F. Chace; Chapter 30 The Implied Reader of the Translation, Petros Panaou, Tasoula Tsilimeni; Chapter 30a Point of Departure, Kostia Kontoleon; Chapter 31 International Communities Building Places for Youth Reading, Michael Daniel Ambatchew; Chapter 31a Point of Departure, Jane Kurtz; Chapter 31b Point of Departure, Yohannes Gebregeorgis; Chapter 32 Censorship, Christine A. Jenkins; Chapter 33 Reviewing Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Michael Cart; Chapter 34 Awards in Literature for Children and Adolescents, Junko Yokota; Chapter 35 The Economics of Children’s Book Publishing in the 21st Century, Joel Taxel; Chapter 36 Spinning Off, Margaret Mackey; Chapter 37 Listening for the Scratch of a Pen, Elizabeth Hammill;