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Papers

(The TQCC of Childrens Literature in Education is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-11-01 to 2023-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Examining Agency in Children’s Nonfiction Picture Books	8
Reading the Chornobyl Catastrophe Within Ecofiction	8
Humanizing the Journey Across the Mexico–U.S. Border: Multimodal Analysis of Children’s Picture Books and the Restorying of Latinx (Im)migration	7
Transformative Readings: Harry Potter Fan Fiction, Trans/Queer Reader Response, and J. K. Rowling	6
Depicting Dementia: Representations of Cognitive Health and Illness in Ten Picturebooks for Children	6
Children of “A Dream Come True”: A Critical Content Analysis of the Representations of Transracial Chinese Adoption in Picturebooks	4
Centering the Margins: Investigating Relationships, Power, and Culture Through Critical Peritextual Analysis	4
Afrocarnival: Celebrating Black Bodies and Critiquing Oppressive Bodies in Afrofuturist Literature	4
Analysing Plant Representation in Children’s Literature: The Phyto-Analysis Map	3
Kittens, Blankets and Seaweed: Developing Empathy in Relation to Language Learning via Children’s Picturebooks	3
Scenes from the Class Struggle in Picture Books: Depictions of Housing and Home in Books for Young Children	3
Uncovering Death: A Dialogic, Aesthetic Engagement with the Covers of Death-Themed Picture Books	3
Critical Depictions of Agency in Pura Belpré Awarded Texts	3
Public Health, Polio, and Pandemics: Fear and Anxiety about Health in Children’s Literature	3
“Beyond the Boundaries:” Negotiations of Space, Place, Body and Subjectivity in YA Fiction	3
Implied Rather than Intended? Children’s Picture Books, Civil Religion, and the First Landing on the Moon	2
Rethinking Cultural Appropriation in YA Literature Through Sámi and Arctic Pedagogies	2
Towards an Affective Childist Literary Criticism	2
“I Don’t Want to Finish This Book!”, or A Posthumanist View of Affect, Reader Response, and Children’s Literature	2
Narrative Ethics in Robert Westall’s The Machine Gunners	2
Ted Hughes: The Importance of Fostering Creative Writing as Environmental Education	2
Older Children’s Responses to Wordless Picturebooks: Making Connections	2
Good Chinese Girls and the Model Minority: Race, Education, and Community in Girl in Translation and Front Desk	2
Processes of Transformation: Theorizing Activism and Change Through Gloria Anzaldúa’s Picture Books	2
Ozone Layer Depletion in Children’s Books Available in Greece: examining accuracy in the representation of causes of ozone layer depletion in texts	2

Reading Poison: Science and Story in Nazi Children’s Propaganda	2
Just How Radical Is Radical: Children’s Picture Books and Trans Youth	1
Joyce Lankester Brisley’s Bunchy as the Shadow of Milly-Molly-Mandy	1
The Necessity of an Anthropomorphic Approach to Children’s Literature	1
“Death of the Author” in the Literature Classroom and John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars	1
Across Textual Landscapes: The Role of Affect During Digital Reading Encounters	1
Gendered Assumptions in the Framing of Fitness in Sports Nonfiction for Young Adult Readers	1
Fictionalised Non-fiction Picturebooks for Preschoolers: Children’s Responses to Imaginary Constructs in Designed Reading Activities	1
Past Wars in Present Stories: An Analysis of the Picturebook Vanishing Colors	1
“Jugos There?” Codeswitching Strategies in Bilingual Picturebooks	1
Defining the Rupkatha: Tracing the Generic Tradition of the Bengali Fairy Tale	1
Too Much Feeling: S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders (1967), Conflicting Emotions, Identity, and Socialization	1
What Can You Do as an Eco-hero? A Study on the Ecopedagogical Potential of Dutch Non-fictional Environmental Texts for Children	1
A Three-Dimensional Jigsaw Made of Pliable Bits: Analysing Adolescent Identity as an Intertextual Construct in Aidan Chambers’ Postcards from No Man’s Land (1999)	1
Writing a Novel with Roma Primary School Children: Tensions in Disrupting Aetonormativity	1
Representations of Testimonial Smothering and Critical Witnessing of Rape Victim–Survivors in Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak Fanfiction	1
Why Children Need to Read About Plants at a Time of Climate Change	1
Contemporary Judeo–Spanish Poetry for Young Readers	1
The Progress of Sugar: Consumption as Complicity in Children’s Books about Slavery and Manufacturing, 1790–2015	1
Weak or Wily? Girls’ Voices in Tellings and Retellings of African Folktales for Children	1
How to Create a Hebrew Reader? Olam Katan (1901–1904) and the Young Hebrew Reading Public	1
Dance of Estrangement: Divisions in Oscar Wilde’s Fairy Tales	1
Who Speaks for Nature? Genre, Gender and the Eco-translation of Chinese Wild Animals	1
Sketching Motherhood. Maternal Representation in Contemporary Picturebooks: The Case of Spain	1
“She Wished Someone Would Help Them”: PTSD and Empathy in the Six of Crows Duology	1
When the Ordinary Meets the Jiggery-Pokery: Towards a Wittgensteinian Reading of Lindgren’s Karlson on the Roof	1
Effects of Multicultural Education on Small Presses and Commercial Publishing: A Case Study of the House on Mango Street	1
An Investigation of the Functionality of Peritextual Elements in Graphic Novels	1
Picturing Silence: The Visual Grammar of Speak: The Graphic Novel	1
Witnesses, Deniers and Bourgeois Troublemakers. The Holodomor and Ukrainian-Canadian Collaboration in Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch’s Winterkill (2022)	1
Ecocritical Insights: Contemporary Concerns about Forest Ecosystems in a Greek Picturebook	1
Truth-Telling, Trauma Fiction, and the Challenge of Critical Engagement: A Reading of Breaking Stalin’s Nose and A Winter’s Day in 1939	1