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Translated Children’s Books You Should Know About
For this post we are proud to showcase a selection of international children’s books in translation. We asked 11 translators of...

Tanja Nathanael
Dec 21, 202114 min read


Mothers and Murderers in YA Dystopian Literature
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...

Malin Alkestrand
Dec 13, 20216 min read


#GivingTuesday 2021
In this time of uncertainty, there’s a fundamental truth that gives us hope – that together we can do extraordinary things. Over the past...

Nithya Sivashankar
Nov 29, 20212 min read


Diverse Pooh: Positioning Pooh and Perspectives on Pooh from Around the Globe
When I first saw the CFP in a ChLA newsletter in 2016 for someone to pull together a Winnie-the-Pooh centennial collection, it was a...

Jen Harrison
Oct 28, 20214 min read


Americans and the English Civil War
A note on terminology: as one of the issues at stake was the ability of the Stuarts to unite their crowns under one polity, modern...

Farah Mendlesohn
Oct 20, 20218 min read


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


Call for Papers 2022
International Committee Themed Panel Session on "Dreams" Deadline: September 30, 2021 Children's Literature Association Conference June...

ChLA Global Committee
Sep 6, 20212 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
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