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

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),...

How does one celebrate Earth Day? One might plant a tree or write a poem. One might organize a community clean-up at a local park, beach,...

After finishing the research projects Arctic Discourses and Arctic Modernities we realized that children’s fiction set in the Arctic...

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

With this post we welcome Dr. Sinéad Moriarty of Trinity College, Dublin and University of Roehampton, London, to outline her study of...

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

LECTURE: Prof. Kimberley Reynolds "Beneath the Big Top: Controversial Dimensions of Circus Stories" DATE: 4 November 2020 TIME: 18.00...

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