Epekwitk (Prince Edward Island)—where Montgomery was born and set most of her novels—is located in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded...

In this post, I explore the possibilities of climate fiction by focusing on a Japanese animated film and its novelization, Tenki no Ko /...

Young Harry Potter readers, according to the findings of Anthony Gierzynsk, Loris Vezzali, and their teams, are more empathetic and open...

Pinocchio seems to be having a “moment.” The stringless puppet with the growing nose, created by Italian author Carlo Collodi in 1881,...

I work as a postdoctoral researcher studying comics, childhood and European culture at Ghent University on the ERC project COMICS. I...

Nicola Davies is an award-winning English writer and zoologist who has published more than 50 books for children including fiction,...

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua, a law professor from Yale, was the topic of intense debate about different parenting styles...

When we sent out the initial call for papers for our collection that’s now titled Storybook Worlds Made Real: Essays on the Places...

Is Heinrich Hoffman’s Der Struwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny Pictures, a cautionary tale meant to frighten misbehaved children or to...

Children learn about the organization of the world from a local point of view. Just as our early sense of landscape arises out of a...