There are stories that you love to read, and then there are stories that you love to teach. I love teaching Maria Edgeworth’s The Purple Jar

Nicola Davies is an award-winning English writer and zoologist who has published more than 50 books for children including fiction,...

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....

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...

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...

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

What makes Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) an enduringly popular text? Carol A. Stranger, in “Winnie the Pooh through a Feminist Lens” (1987),...

Arguably, childhood is the period of our lives in which we first experience sensations of fear and wonder. Often these emotions are...

Children’s play, children’s imagination, children’s literature – these are perhaps some of the last spaces that most people associate...