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Welcome to ChLA 2025
Please join us Friday, June 13th from 10:30 am - 11:45 am (EDT, UTC-4) for an exciting panel sharing ideas and build bibliographies of primary and secondary texts from around the world.

ChLA Global Committee
3 days ago1 min read


The Asian American Immigrant Experience as Reflected in Children’s Literature
As an English professor with a specialty in children’s and young adult literature, I have taken a particular interest in children’s...

Mark West
May 163 min read


International Children's Book Day 2025
ICBD is a worldwide celebration of reading and children's literature meant to inspire and promote a love of children's books. In 2025, the day is sponsored by IBBY-Netherlands and the poster is made by two Dutch creators of children’s books. The theme of the day is: The freedom of imagination.

ChLA Global Committee
Apr 23 min read


Solving the Case of the Childlike Adult in Detective Pikachu
Pokémon—with their diminutive size, bright colors, and exaggerated features—seem to be the epitome of cute, specifically Japan’s notion of

Rebecca Rowe
Dec 10, 20247 min read


The Epic Fantasy of the Colonization of Latin America: Logos & Knowledge in Liliana Bodoc’s Saga of the Borderlands
Young adult literature in Latin America (and particularly in Chile) has largely silenced the level of violence that the processes of coloniz

Isabel Ibaceta
Nov 20, 20249 min read


International Highlights of the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection
The de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection began in 1966, when Dr. Lena Y. de Grummond came to the University of Southern Mississippi

Karlie Herndon
Sep 24, 20244 min read


Why is the Jar Purple?
There are stories that you love to read, and then there are stories that you love to teach. I love teaching Maria Edgeworth’s The Purple Jar

Katharine Kittredge
Aug 20, 20244 min read


ChLA 2024 International Panel Abstracts
The ChLA International Committee is pleased to present the abstracts for the 2023 International Panel focusing on Islands in Children’s...

ChLA Global Committee
May 15, 20244 min read


2024 International Committee Panelists
The ChLA International Committee is pleased to announce the panelists for the 2024 sponsored panel, focusing on Memory in Children's and...

ChLA Global Committee
May 8, 20242 min read


Lecture: Why Ariel Sings and Oliver Doesn’t - Disney Animation & Historical Production Culture
The Institute of English Studies of the University of Wrocław in the framework of Erasmus Mundus International Master: Children’s,...

ChLA Global Committee
May 6, 20241 min read
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