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Exploring Challenging Picturebooks in Education
What should students read? The choice of texts in the classroom has important pedagogical implications for both novice and experienced...
Åse Marie Ommundsen, Gunnar Haaland, and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
Oct 12, 20216 min read


Odysseus in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame’s (1859-1932) The Wind in the Willows (WW)* is a subtle book, beautifully written, steeped in intertext and nuance, one...

Georgia L Irby
Oct 5, 20217 min read


Hobbyhorse Revolution and the Finnish Hobbyhorse Girls on Parade
In 2012, Finnish filmmaker Selma Vilhunen discovered a community of hobbyhorse enthusiasts who manufacture, care for, and compete in the...
Ida Moen Johnson
Aug 10, 20215 min read


Unhu and Winnie the Pooh
What makes Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) an enduringly popular text? Carol A. Stranger, in “Winnie the Pooh through a Feminist Lens” (1987),...
Katherine J. Dubke
Jul 15, 20215 min read


Teaching Sayantani DasGupta’s The Serpent’s Secret
In an effort to more thoroughly diversify the reading list for my adolescent literature course, I adopted Sayantani DasGupta’s middle...
Ellen Butler Donovan
Jun 1, 20218 min read


Highlights from Delhi: LOGOS 2021 Literature and Childhood
This week we are pleased to share some highlights from LOGOS 2021, the annual literature festival hosted by The English Literary Society...
Yusra Basit & Syed Muhammad Khalid
Mar 16, 202110 min read


The Arctic in Literature for Children & Young Adults
After finishing the research projects Arctic Discourses and Arctic Modernities we realized that children’s fiction set in the Arctic...
Heidi Hansson & Maria Lindgren Leavenworth
Feb 23, 20215 min read


It’s time for reading to become our superpower! Inspiring a Generation of Joyful Readers in Pakistan
With this post, we are joined by guest contributor Nusser Sayeed, Founder and CEO of GoRead.pk, a socially conscious, nationwide movement...
Nusser Sayeed
Feb 16, 20217 min read


Imagining Antarctica in Literature for Children
With this post we welcome Dr. Sinéad Moriarty of Trinity College, Dublin and University of Roehampton, London, to outline her study of...
Sinéad Moriarty
Dec 8, 20206 min read


Children’s Fiction and Terror
Children’s play, children’s imagination, children’s literature – these are perhaps some of the last spaces that most people associate...
Blanka Grzegorczyk
Aug 21, 20205 min read
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