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Places Where Dreams Grow: Toward an Ecofeminist Analysis of L.M. Montgomery’s Emily of New Moon
Epekwitk (Prince Edward Island)—where Montgomery was born and set most of her novels—is located in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded...

Michaela Wipond
Sep 26, 20236 min read


An International Tour of Story-Based Amusement Parks and Literary Playgrounds
When we sent out the initial call for papers for our collection that’s now titled Storybook Worlds Made Real: Essays on the Places...
Kathy Merlock Jackson and Mark I. West
Jan 12, 20233 min read


Space, Place, and Children’s Reading Development: Mapping the Connections
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...
Margaret Mackey
Nov 23, 20225 min read


Plants in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Plants are ubiquitous in children’s literature, yet as readers, we tend not to notice. American biologists J. H. Wandersee and E. E....
Melanie Duckworth & Lykke Guanio-Uluru
Apr 12, 20224 min read

International Children's Book Day 2022
Join the ChLA International Committee in celebrating International Children's Book Day (ICBD) on April 2nd! About ICBD ICBD is a...
ChLA International Committee
Apr 2, 20223 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


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


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


Celebrate Democracy with Children’s Literature from Leading Democratic Countries of the World
In light of the recent inauguration of a new president of the United States, we thought it would be appropriate to celebrate global...
Tanja Nathanael
Jan 20, 20217 min read


Christmas Around the World
The celebration of Christmas in Western culture is often assumed to take a certain form: singing holiday songs, trimming the tree, and...
Tanja Nathanael and Olivia Bushardt
Dec 22, 202011 min read
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