How many books for children or young adults have you read that happen in any of the countries in the Western Balkans? How many of them...

[Content Warning: This post contains discussion of sexual assault.] On June 23, 2022, the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe vs....

This blog post was written as part of the research project Constructing Age for Young Readers (CAFYR), led by Vanessa Joosen at the...

Plants are ubiquitous in children’s literature, yet as readers, we tend not to notice. American biologists J. H. Wandersee and E. E....

In J. Roger Kurtz’s 2013 piece on the African moral imagination [1], he calls for a more cross-cultural understanding of trauma within...

A Russian teenage girl, in all of her heartrending vulnerability, recently grabbed the world’s attention. Kamila Valieva, Russia’s...

With this post, we welcome guest contributor Jack Zipes, professor emeritus of the University of Minnesota and founder of the publishing...

Climate change and its evil twin biodiversity loss are the first-ever planetary-scale existential challenge to humanity. This challenge...

In the autumn of 2021, International LGBTQ+ Literature for Children and Young Adults, an academic collection of essays that we edited...

In Christina Henry’s The Girl in Red (2019), a dystopian re-telling of Little Red Riding Hood, a pandemic called “the cough” strikes. The...