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

Young Harry Potter readers, according to the findings of Anthony Gierzynsk, Loris Vezzali, and their teams, are more empathetic and open...

For many, September means “Back to School!” In recent years, September has also been designated “World Kid Lit Month.” In celebration of...

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

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

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....

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...

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...