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Academia and Children’s Literature: Analysing expertise in Picture-Books
How is academia represented in children’s literature? In the spring of 2012 I began to ponder that question, coming across various...

Melissa Terras
Oct 23, 20184 min read


“A General Has to See the Whole Field”: The Life-Giving Power of YA Fiction from Indigenous Canada
You can’t talk about Indigenous young adult literature in Canada without talking about residential schools: the abusive government- and...

Mandy Suhr-Sytsma
Oct 16, 201810 min read


St John’s Wood and the Hundred Acre Wood: E. H. Shepard and Rural Modernity
Readers all over the world recognize the picture of a boy and two stuffed animals sitting cozy before a hearth on the title page of US...
Kristin Bluemel
Oct 9, 20186 min read


Exploring Childhood Trauma in Manga
While many contemporary readers of children’s and adolescent literature might only be familiar with the genre of manga in the context of...
James M. Curtis
Sep 18, 20184 min read


Roverandom: Reinvestigating Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien is known to most readers for his work on Middle-earth novels like The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954). Both...
Bryana Fern
Sep 4, 20187 min read


A Day at Ashdown Forest with Dr. Ann Thwaite
Though admitting that this year may be her last to serve as tour guide, Dr. Ann Thwaite, A. A. Milne’s biographer, delighted eleven...
Crystal Veronie
Aug 28, 20185 min read

Diverse Voices? Thinking about BAME Literature in the UK
UK children’s literature has a diversity problem. That was the conclusion of a recent report, Reflecting Realities by the Centre for...
Lucy Pearson
Aug 7, 20184 min read


15 Books that Celebrate International Friendship Day
In honor of the United Nations International Day of Friendship, we are bringing you a list of children’s books from around the world that...
Olivia Bushardt
Jul 30, 20187 min read

Call for Papers 2019
Children's Literature Association International Committee Focus Panel on BAME British Children’s Literature Deadline: September 15, 2018...
ChLA International Committee
Jul 19, 20182 min read


ChLA 2018 Thanks
Thank you to everyone who came and supported the ChLA International Committee and international children's literature in San Antonio. The...
Vanessa Joosen
Jul 12, 20181 min read
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