Der, die, das [He, she, it] wer, wie, was [who, how, what] wieso, weshalb, warum [wherefore, for what reason, why] wer nicht fragt,...

When we sent out the initial call for papers for our collection that’s now titled Storybook Worlds Made Real: Essays on the Places...

Is Heinrich Hoffman’s Der Struwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny Pictures, a cautionary tale meant to frighten misbehaved children or to...

With this post, we welcome guest contributor Jack Zipes, professor emeritus of the University of Minnesota and founder of the publishing...

In the autumn of 2021, International LGBTQ+ Literature for Children and Young Adults, an academic collection of essays that we edited...

What should students read? The choice of texts in the classroom has important pedagogical implications for both novice and experienced...

The celebration of Christmas in Western culture is often assumed to take a certain form: singing holiday songs, trimming the tree, and...

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

Motivations In the light of #blacklivesmatter, Maha El Hissy @mahaelhissy, Assistant Professor of German Literature at the University of...

In the spirit of the season, we would like to share with you some suggestions of spooky—and some not so spooky—stories from around the...