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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Modeling Environmental Heroes in Literature for Children: Stories of Youth Climate Activist Greta Thunberg	10
Ecocriticism and Youth Climate Heroes in Southern Africa: Centering Global South Perspectives and Activism in Isaura	2
Against Ecocidal Environmentalism: Anti-Capitalist, Queer, and Decolonial Critiques of Mainstream Environmentalism in Lilliam Rivera's Dealing in Dreams	2
The Disneyfication of Climate Crisis: Negotiating Responsibility and Climate Action in Frozen, Moana, and Frozen 2	2
Reimagining Plastic Pollution and Climate Activism: Contradictions of Eco-Education in Rachel Hope Allison's I'm Not a Plastic Bag	2
Against the Wall: Humor and Censorship in Children's Literature	1
Introduction: Children's Literature and Climate Change	1
Who Gets to Be on the Bus?: Tracing Conceptions of Race in and around The Magic School Bus from 1986 to 2018	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: Children's Literature and Postcolonial Fantasy	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
Transforming Girls: The Work of Nineteenth-Century Adolescence by Julie Pfeiffer (review)	0
Robin and the Making of American Adolescence by Lauren O'Connor	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
Children’s Books on the Big Screen by Meghann Meeusen (review)	0
Equipping Space Cadets: Primary Science Fiction for Young Children by Emily Midkiff (review)	0
Witnessing Girlhood: Toward an Intersectional Tradition of Life Writing by Leigh Gilmore and Elizabeth Marshall	0
"Handling" Wonder: Tools, Tasks, and the Enchantment of Materialistic Engagement in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy	0
When Reading Mediation becomes Censorship	0
Medieval and Imperial Nostalgia and Abolition in Narnia and the Wizarding World	0
A Neo-Daoist Adolescence: Cultivating Selfhood in The Daily Life of the Immortal King	0
Introduction	0
Performing Pooh Plays: Drama and Storytelling in the Children's Literature Classroom	0
Teaching Young Adult Literature ed. by Mike Cadden, Karen Coats, and Roberta Seelinger Trites	0

Echoes in the Space Where God Has Been: The Politics of De/Reterritorialization in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials	0
Introduction	0
Sobbing over Severus Snape? Sentimentalism and Emotional Ethics in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Novels	0
Intergenerational Solidarity in Children's Literature and Film ed. by Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak and Zoe Jaques	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
Chinese Immigrants and the Changing Terms of Exclusion in Beverly Cleary's Emily's Runaway Imagination and Fifteen	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
How to Talk about Languages You Haven't Learned: Comparative Translation Pedagogy and Children's Literature	0
Keywords for Children's Literature ed. by Philip Nel et al.	0
No Kids Allowed: Children's Literature for Adults by Michelle Abate	0
Children’s and Young Adult Comics by Gwen Athene Tarbox	0
Disney Theatrical Productions: Producing Broadway Musicals the Disney Way by Amy S. Osatinski	0
The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children's Picture Books by Jennifer Miller (review)	0
Melancholia and Magic: Transnational Migration and Fantasy Narratives in The Land of Forgotten Girls and When You Trap a Tiger	0
Plants in Children's and Young Adult Literature ed. by Melanie Duckword and Lykke Duanio-Uluru (review)	0
Theory for Beginners: Children's Literature as Critical Thought by Kenneth Kidd	0
At Arm's Length: A Rhetoric of Character in Children's and Young Adult Literature by Mike Cadden (review)	0
Cultural Politics in Harry Potter: Life, Death and the Politics of Fear ed. by Rubén Jarazo-Álvarez and Pilar Alderete-Diez	0
The Virtual Child, or Six Provocations on Children’s Literature and (Pre-) Digital Culture	0
“Outcasts to Princesses”: U.S. White Adoptive Parents’ Fairy-tale Narratives of Adoption from China	0
Introduction	0
“mouth full & dripping with language”: The 2022 Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry	0
The Child in Cinema ed. by Karen Lury (review)	0
Confusing Boundaries in The Lovebus: Constructing Consent in Dutch YA Fiction	0
Introduction	0
Forum: Children's Literature in Brazil: "shut-up's dead!"	0
Longing for "There": Europe in Twenty-first-Century Israeli Picture Books about the Holocaust	0
The Inclusive Young Adult Reimagining and Adaptation: Renee Ahdieh’s Vampires and L. L. McKinney’s Alice for an Adolescent Audience	0
Wicked Old Schoolmarm or Stern Old Crone? Age and Gender in Magical School Stories	0
Fantasies of Whiteness: Race, Class, and Myth in Maggie Stiefvater's Raven Cycle	0
Tidying Up: Space, Place, and Abolitionism in Step by Step; or Tidy’s Way to Freedom	0
Introduction	0
The Oxford Handbook of Children's Film ed. by Noel Brown (review)	0
March of the Coup Clutz Clowns: David LaMotte's White Flour and the Clowning of White Supremacy	0
The Sound of Clarice's Silences	0
I Can Read It All By Myself: The Beginner Books Story by Paul V. Allen	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
Tactics of Hope in Latinx Children’s and Young Adult Literature by Jesus Montaño and Regan Postma-Montaño (review)	0
Confronting the Whitewashing of (My) History: The Reparative Value of Latinx YA Historical Novels and Testimonio	0
A de Grummond Primer: Highlights of the Children's Literature Collection ed. by Carolyn J. Brown et al.	0
Breaking (open) the Internet for Inclusive Research	0
Children's Literature and the Rise of 'Mind Cure': Positive Thinking and Pseudo-Science at the Fin de Siècle by Anne Stiles	0
Psychoanalytic Transference and Redemption in Anne Fine’s The Tulip Touch and Anne Cassidy’s Jennifer Jones Novels	0
The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader: Critical Openings, Future Directions ed. by Alison Halsall and Jonathan Warren (review)	0
"Sometimes, You Are an Ordinary Child": Alternative Temporalities in Lalani of the Distant Sea by Erin Entrada Kelly	0
Monstrous Youth: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States by Sara Austin (review)	0
Indirect Service with Direct Impact: Buying Diverse Children's Books with Community Partners	0
Why Do Trees Need Herding? J. R. R. Tolkien’s Mastery of Trees in The Lord of the Rings	0
Literary Cultures and Twentieth Century Childhoods ed. by Rachel Conrad and L. Brown Kennedy	0
The Hunger Games Game: Exploring Ideology through Game-Based Learning	0

Bridges to Self: Material Culture and Emotional Transnationalism in Grace Lin's Picture Books	0
The Imaginary Landscape of Formosa: Preliminary Research on the Development of Children's Fantasy Novels in Taiwan	0
Introduction	0
The Order and the Other: Young Adult Dystopian Literature and Science Fiction by Joseph W. Campbell	0
Curious about George: Curious George, Cultural Icons, Colonialism, and US Exceptionalism by Rae Lynn Schwartz-DuPre (review)	0
The Myth of Harm: Horror, Censorship, and the Child by Sarah Cleary (review)	0
"Every cell of their bodies says Make Art ": The 2023 Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry	0
Beowulf as Children’s Literature ed. by Bruce Gilchrist and Britt Mize (review)	0
Webcomics by Sean Kleefeld	0
The Time between Vasilisa and Baba Yaga: Queer Enchantment in Aleksandr Afanas'ev's "Vasilisa the Beautiful"	0
As Close as from Here to There: The Ethics of Haunting in Geda and Akbari’s Nel mare ci sono i coccodrilli	0
Beyond a Reading Primer: Children's Marginalia in Little Charles	0
Multimodality and Public Pedagogy in the Youth Literature Classroom	0
Introduction	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
Mothers and Murderers: Adults' Oppression of Children and Adolescents in Young Adult Dystopian Literature by Malin Alkestrand (review)	0
"Children Are Helpless": Eighteenth-Century Children's Literature and Disability	0
Impertinent Pedagogy: A Forum on Mischievous Praxis in Children's and Young Adult Literature and Culture	0
Who Is Welcome?: Images of Multiculturalism in German Picture Books Since 1989	0
Contemporary Hollywood Animation: Style, Storytelling, Culture and Ideology Since the 1990s by Noel Brown	0
Malory’s Magic Book: King Arthur and the Child, 1862–1980 by Elly McCausland	0
The Harry Potter Generation: Essays on Growing Up with the Series ed. by Emily Lauer and Balaka Basu	0
Unearthing the Roots: White Privilege and Trauma in A. S. King’s Dig	0
A Centennial Celebration of the Brownies' Book ed. by Dianne Johnson-Feelings, and Jonda C. McNair (review)	0