OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Lion and the Unicorn is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Modeling Environmental Heroes in Literature for Children: Stories of Youth Climate Activist Greta Thunberg	10
The Disneyfication of Climate Crisis: Negotiating Responsibility and Climate Action in Frozen, Moana, and Frozen 2	2
Against Ecocidal Environmentalism: Anti-Capitalist, Queer, and Decolonial Critiques of Mainstream Environmentalism in Lilliam Rivera's Dealing in Dreams	2
Reimagining Plastic Pollution and Climate Activism: Contradictions of Eco-Education in Rachel Hope Allison's I'm Not a Plastic Bag	1
Who Gets to Be on the Bus?: Tracing Conceptions of Race in and around The Magic School Bus from 1986 to 2018	1
Introduction: Children's Literature and Climate Change	1
Ecocriticism and Youth Climate Heroes in Southern Africa: Centering Global South Perspectives and Activism in Isaura	1
Youth Climate Activists Trading on Time: Temporal Strategies in Xiuhtezcatl Martinez's We Rise and Greta Thunberg's No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference	1
Introduction	0
A de Grummond Primer: Highlights of the Children's Literature Collection ed. by Carolyn J. Brown et al.	0
Transforming Girls: The Work of Nineteenth-Century Adolescence by Julie Pfeiffer (review)	0
Children's Literature and the Rise of 'Mind Cure': Positive Thinking and Pseudo-Science at the Fin de Siècle by Anne Stiles	0
Mothers and Murderers: Adults' Oppression of Children and Adolescents in Young Adult Dystopian Literature by Malin Alkestrand (review)	0
Mapping Fairy-Tale Space: Pastiche and Metafiction in Borderless Tales by Christy Williams	0
Constructing Age in Children’s Literature: A Digital Approach to Guus Kuijer’s Oeuvre	0
“mouth full & dripping with language”: The 2022 Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry	0
Literary Cultures and Twentieth Century Childhoods ed. by Rachel Conrad and L. Brown Kennedy	0
"We do not have whims on the moon": A Wrinkle in Time, The Lotus Caves, and the Problem of American Exceptionalism in 1960s Science Fiction for Children	0
Forum: Children's Literature in Brazil: "shut-up's dead!"	0
Introduction	0
"Handling" Wonder: Tools, Tasks, and the Enchantment of Materialistic Engagement in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy	0
Fantasies of Whiteness: Race, Class, and Myth in Maggie Stiefvater's Raven Cycle	0
Introduction	0
Psychoanalytic Transference and Redemption in Anne Fine’s The Tulip Touch and Anne Cassidy’s Jennifer Jones Novels	0
March of the Coup Clutz Clowns: David LaMotte's White Flour and the Clowning of White Supremacy	0

Medieval and Imperial Nostalgia and Abolition in Narnia and the Wizarding World	0
No Kids Allowed: Children's Literature for Adults by Michelle Abate	0
The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children's Picture Books by Jennifer Miller (review)	0
Breaking (open) the Internet for Inclusive Research	0
Confronting the Whitewashing of (My) History: The Reparative Value of Latinx YA Historical Novels and Testimonio	0
Can Fantasy Free the Fantastic?: Whiteness, Marginalization, and the Productive Potential of the Fantastic in Nnedi Okorafor’s Akata Witch	0
Narratives, Nerdfighters, and New Media by Jennifer Burek Pierce	0
Impertinent Pedagogy: A Forum on Mischievous Praxis in Children's and Young Adult Literature and Culture	0
Beyond a Reading Primer: Children's Marginalia in Little Charles	0
Contemporary Hollywood Animation: Style, Storytelling, Culture and Ideology Since the 1990s by Noel Brown	0
The Virtual Child, or Six Provocations on Children’s Literature and (Pre-) Digital Culture	0
The Harry Potter Generation: Essays on Growing Up with the Series ed. by Emily Lauer and Balaka Basu	0
Harry Potter and the Other: Race, Justice, and Difference in the Wizarding World ed. by Sarah Park Dahlen and Ebony Elizabeth Thomas (review)	0
Theory for Beginners: Children's Literature as Critical Thought by Kenneth Kidd	0
Intergenerational Solidarity in Children's Literature and Film ed. by Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak and Zoe Jaques	0
Cultural Politics in Harry Potter: Life, Death and the Politics of Fear ed. by Rubén Jarazo-Álvarez and Pilar Alderete-Diez	0
Curious about George: Curious George, Cultural Icons, Colonialism, and US Exceptionalism by Rae Lynn Schwartz-DuPre (review)	0
Teaching Young Adult Literature ed. by Mike Cadden, Karen Coats, and Roberta Seelinger Trites	0
Introduction	0
Webcomics by Sean Kleefeld	0
Confusing Boundaries in The Lovebus: Constructing Consent in Dutch YA Fiction	0
Introduction	0
Sobbing over Severus Snape? Sentimentalism and Emotional Ethics in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Novels	0
Witnessing Girlhood: Toward an Intersectional Tradition of Life Writing by Leigh Gilmore and Elizabeth Marshall	0
Unearthing the Roots: White Privilege and Trauma in A. S. King’s Dig	0
Longing for "There": Europe in Twenty-first-Century Israeli Picture Books about the Holocaust	0
"how do I protest? / my words march across the page": The 2021 Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry	0
The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader: Critical Openings, Future Directions ed. by Alison Halsall and Jonathan Warren (review)	0
Chinese Immigrants and the Changing Terms of Exclusion in Beverly Cleary's Emily's Runaway Imagination and Fifteen	0
Malory’s Magic Book: King Arthur and the Child, 1862–1980 by Elly McCausland	0
Borderland Ethics, Migrant Personhood, and the Critique of State Sovereignty in Jairo Buitrago's Two White Rabbits and José Manuel Matéo's Migrant: The Journey of a Mexican Worker	0
The Oxford Handbook of Children's Film ed. by Noel Brown (review)	0
Keywords for Children's Literature ed. by Philip Nel et al.	0
Why Do Trees Need Herding? J. R. R. Tolkien’s Mastery of Trees in The Lord of the Rings	0
Children’s and Young Adult Comics by Gwen Athene Tarbox	0
Bridges to Self: Material Culture and Emotional Transnationalism in Grace Lin's Picture Books	0
Against the Wall: Humor and Censorship in Children's Literature	0
Indirect Service with Direct Impact: Buying Diverse Children's Books with Community Partners	0
Children’s Books on the Big Screen by Meghann Meeusen (review)	0
The Sound of Clarice's Silences	0
The Hunger Games Game: Exploring Ideology through Game-Based Learning	0
When Reading Mediation becomes Censorship	0
Robin and the Making of American Adolescence by Lauren O'Connor	0
The Order and the Other: Young Adult Dystopian Literature and Science Fiction by Joseph W. Campbell	0
Performing Pooh Plays: Drama and Storytelling in the Children's Literature Classroom	0
“Outcasts to Princesses”: U.S. White Adoptive Parents’ Fairy-tale Narratives of Adoption from China	0
Beowulf as Children’s Literature ed. by Bruce Gilchrist and Britt Mize (review)	0
Multimodality and Public Pedagogy in the Youth Literature Classroom	0
Tidying Up: Space, Place, and Abolitionism in Step by Step; or Tidy’s Way to Freedom	0
Who Is Welcome?: Images of Multiculturalism in German Picture Books Since 1989	0

The Time between Vasilisa and Baba Yaga: Queer Enchantment in Aleksandr Afanas'ev's "Vasilisa the Beautiful"	0
"Children Are Helpless": Eighteenth-Century Children's Literature and Disability	0
Introduction	0
How to Talk about Languages You Haven't Learned: Comparative Translation Pedagogy and Children's Literature	0
Disney Theatrical Productions: Producing Broadway Musicals the Disney Way by Amy S. Osatinski	0
I Can Read It All By Myself: The Beginner Books Story by Paul V. Allen	0