International Research in Childrens Literature

Papers
(The TQCC of International Research in Childrens Literature 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Discovering the Child’s Voice in Intergenerational Comics5
Plants in Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Eds Melanie Duckworth and Lykke Guanio-Uluru3
Personification Metaphors in Children’s Picturebooks about Nature: A Multimodal Cognitive Stylistic Study3
The Glocal Practice of Anthropomorphism: Storying Chinese Wild Animals for Young Readers2
Growing Sideways in Twenty-First Century British Culture: Challenging Boundaries between Childhood and Adulthood. Anne Malewski2
Translating and Creating New Discourses for Children in Argentina: Explorations around the Enunciator’s Communicative Image in the Writings of María Elena Walsh and Elsa Bornemann2
Ageing and Childhood: Dementia in Chinese-Language Picturebooks1
The School Story: Young Adult Narratives in the Age of Neoliberalism. David Aitchison1
Lost Futures: Reading, Memory, and Repression1
Introduction: A Child and the Pictures of War1
Constructing Age for Young Readers1
Feminist Discourse in Irish Literature: Gender and Power in Louise O’Neill’s Young Adult Fiction by Jennifer Mooney1
Thinking with the Childadult: Children’s Literature and the Anthropocene1
Translating Postmodern Picturebooks: The Incredible Book Eating Boy in Japanese, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese1
Wasted Innocence: Children and Childhood in Cao Xueqin's Dream of the Red Chamber1
Russian Translations of Parodies of Didactic Verses in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: What Got Lost in the Rabbit Hole?1
A fantasia, o design e a literatura para a infância. Uma gramática da fantasia para os livros ilustrados [Fantasy, design, and children's literature: a grammar of fantasy for picturebooks]. Mic1
Behind Children's Books: Backstories & Revelations. Jerry Griswold1
Caribbean Children's Literature, Volume 1: History, Pedagogy, and Publishing. Edited by Betsy Nies and Melissa García Vega.1
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Child Soldier Narratives and the Underrepresentation of Females in Fighting Forces0
Children's Literature and Translation: Texts and Contexts. Eds Jan Van Coillie and Jack McMartin0
Containing Childhood: Space and Identity in Children’s Literature edited by Danielle Russell0
Beyond the Blockbusters: Themes and Trends in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction. Eds Rebekah Fitzsimmons and Casey Alane Wilson0
Teens on TikTok: Understanding Young People’s Digital Agency as Practice0
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Consumable Reading and Children's Literature: Food, Taste and Material Interactions by Ilgım Veryeri Alaca0
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L. M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature(s). Eds Rita Bode and Jean Mitchell0
Peritext in the Picturebook: Can It Be Metanarrative?0
Antarctica in British Children's Literature. Sinéad Moriarty0
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Children’s Books on the Big Screen. Meghann Meeusen0
Literature for Children and Beyond: Historicising the Fantastic Utopia in ‘The Country of the Red Heart’0
Picturing the Page: Illustrated Children's Literature and Reading under Lenin and Stalin. Megan Swift0
Darllen y Dychymyg: Creu Ystyron Newydd i Blant a Phlentyndod yn Llenyddiaeth y Bedwaredd Ganrif ar Bymtheg [Reading the imagination: creating new meanings for children and childhood in literat0
How Informational Activity Picturebooks Work: Interactive Invitation to a Critical Approach to Knowledge0
Fleeing Nazi Persecution: Jewish Refugee Child Diarists as Family Chroniclers0
Growing up Graphic: The Comics of Children in Crisis. Alison Halsall.0
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The Order and the Other: Young Adult Dystopian Literature and Science Fiction by Joseph W. Campbell0
‘Sing, My Child’: The Lullaby's Dialogical Emotional Atmosphere in Magdalena Fleitas's ‘Rayito de sol’0
British Activist Authors Addressing Children of Colour by Karen Sands-O’Connor0
The Truth, the Partial Truth, and Anything but the Truth: Textual Constructions of Veracity in Siobhan Dowd's Bog Child0
Call for Papers: Latin American Children’s Literature and Culture0
Radical Equality in Ghanaian Market Fiction for Children0
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The ‘Gentle Recitation’: Writing Trauma in Contemporary Children's and Young Adult Literature0
Where the Wild Things Are: An-Other Critique of Niki Daly’s Pretty Salma0
The Postcolonial Little Prince: A Comparative Analysis of Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince and Other Works0
How Gender Can Travel, or Not, through Children’s Books: A Comparison of Poland and the United States0
Capitalist Contaminations of Childhood and Pedagogical Dilutions of Literature during Chile's Popular Unity Government (1970–1973)0
The Figure of the Child in WWI American, British, and Canadian Children's Literature: Farmer, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Elizabeth A. Galway0
‘Children My Age Should Be Reading Books Like Journey to Jo’burg’: Patterns of Anti-Racist Reading in Archived Reader Responses0
Carroll, Baum, Barrie. (Mito)biografie i (mikro)historie [Caroll, Baum, Barrie. (Mytho)biographies and (micro)stories] by Maciej Skowera0
Articulate Silence: Books and Readers in Jason Chin’s Coral Reefs and Redwoods0
Alt Kid Lit: What Children's Literature Might Be. Edited by Kenneth B. Kidd and Derritt Mason.0
Girls at War, Girls in War: Three Female African Child Soldier Narratives0
Children's Literature and Transnational Knowledge in Modern China: Education, Religion, and Childhood. Shih-Wen Sue Chen0
The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games. Ebony Elizabeth Thomas0
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Al-Sukun ma bayn al-Amwaj: Kutub al-Atfal al-Musawwara wal-Mujtama'al-Misri al-Mu'aser [Stillness between the waves: Egyptian children's picturebooks and contemporary Egyptian society]0
Behind Closed Gates: The Barriers to Self-Expression and Publication for Australian Young Adult Authors of OwnVoices Fiction0
The Discursive Construction of Childhood in Three Turkish Children’s Books about the Cyprus Problem0
‘I Became Much Wiser over Time’: Readers’ Use of Innocence and Wisdom as Age Norms in Responses to Children’s Literature0
Side by Side: US Empire, Puerto Rico, and the Roots of American Youth Literature and Culture by Marilisa Jiménez García0
Cinderella in Spain: Variations of the Story as Socio-Ethical Texts. Maia Fernández-Lamarque0
The Child Protagonist as Agent and Subject inHarriet's DaughterandCrick Crack, Monkey0
Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks: Outsiders in Chicanx and Latinx Young Adult Literature. Eds Trevor Boffone and Cristina Herrera0
‘Small Existential Fractures and an Interrogative Relationship with the World’: An Existentialist Reading of Frances Hardinge’s A Face Like Glass0
Admirałowie wyobraźni. 100 lat polskiej ilustracji w książkach dla dzieci [Captains of illustration: 100 years of children’s books from Poland]. Ed. Anita Wincencjusz-Patyna0
Children’s Literature: A Joint Venture0
A Companion to Soviet Children's Literature and Film. Ed. Olga Voronina0
Introduction: Latin American Children's Literature and Culture0
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Table Lands: Food in Children's Literature. Children's Literature Association Series. Kara Keeling and Scott Pollard0
International LGBTQ+ Literature for Children and Young Adults. Eds B. J. Epstein and Elizabeth L. Chapman0
Campo en formación. Textos clave para la crítica de literatura infantil a juvenil [A field in formation: key texts for the criticism of children's and young adult literature] edited by Macarena0
Toward an Ecologically Harmonious Modernity: Nature Writing in Contemporary Chinese Ethnic Minority Children's Literature0
The Sounds and Colours of Harlem: Sharing the Secrets of African American Urban Landscapes0
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Gareth B. Matthews, The Child's Philosopher. Eds Maughn Rollins Gregory and Megan Jane Laverty0
Out of Reach: The Ideal Girl in American Girls’ Serial Literature. Kate G. Harper0
Picture-Books in the Classroom: Perspectives on Life Skills, Sustainable Development and Democracy & Citizenship. Hilde Tørnby0
‘Just a bit of fluff and happiness’: Examining Romantic Rewritings of Respair in YA Sexual Assault Narrative Fanfiction0
Quando i grandi leggoni ai bambini [When adults read to children]. Angela Dal Gobbo0
A Desire Seeks Its Dwelling: Gendering Literature Teaching from the Contributions of Feminist Pedagogies0
‘Good Cause for Living’: Environmental Justice in Virginia Hamilton’s M. C. Higgins, the Great0
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The Reader as Player: Exploring the Notion of Aesthetic and Efferent Gaming0
Reading and Authoring Young Adult Transmedia Storyworlds0
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The Child and the Animal in Times of War: Halahmy’s The Emergency Zoo and Contemporary News Reports on the War in Ukraine0
IRSCL Statement on the War in Ukraine0
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Comparative Children’s Literature: Comparative Study of Slovene Children’s Literature in an International Context by Milena Mileva Blažić0
Virtual Erasure: Ntozake Shange, Black Spaces, Wealth, and Children’s Biographies0
British Children's Literature in Japanese Culture: Wonderlands and Looking-Glasses. Catherine Butler.0
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The Role of Plants in Contemporary Swedish and Norwegian Picturebooks0
‘Never Just a Game’: Storytelling, Gaming, and Death in Luka and the Fire of Life and Joseph Anton0
Rewriting the History of Chinese Children’s Literature by Jie Mei0
The Way Back Home: Self-Authorship, Home, and Intergenerational Bonds in Arabic YA Novels of Return0
A Very Hungry Week: Challenges of Timekeeping in the Anthropocene0
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Negotiating Translation and Transcreation of Children’s Literature: From Alice to the Moomins. Eds Joanna Dybiec-Gajer, Riitta Oittinen, and Małgorzata Kodura0
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Anne Frank in China: Translation, Adaptation, and Reception0
Material Green Entanglements: Research on Student Teachers’ Aesthetic and Ecocritical Engagement with Picturebooks of Their Own Choice0
Houses and Backyards: Telling Stories through Lived Spaces in Two Portuguese Picturebooks0
Young Poets and Black Spaces: Vanessa Howard’s Poetics of Nature0
Големите теми в детските книги [Big themes in children's books]. Lilia Ratcheva0
Argentinian Children's Literature and Independent Publishing Houses: Emerging Forms in the Re-editions of María Teresa Andruetto's Poems0
Queer Species in Moominvalley: A Posthumanist Reading of Tove Jansson's Moomin Books0
Representations of Children and Success in Asia: Dream Chaser edited by Shih-Wen Sue Chen and Sin Wen Lau0
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Teaching Young Adult Literature. Eds Mike Cadden, Karen Coats, and Roberta Seelinger Trites0
Obrazowanie Zagłady. Narracje holokaustowe w polskiej literaturze XXI wieku dla dzieci i młodzieży [Imaging the Shoah: Holocaust narratives in the Polish children’s and young adult literature o0
Stigmatisation, Marginalisation, and Agency in Keluarga Cemara, an Indonesian Young Adult Series0
Żywioły w literaturze dziecięcej. Ogień [Elements in children’s literature: fire]. Eds Anna Czabanowska-Wróbel and Krystyna Zabawa0
Transforming Girls: The Work of Nineteenth-Century Adolescence. Julie Pfeiffer0
A representação da criança na literatura infantojuvenil [The representation of children in children's literature] by Isabel Lopes Coelho0
Editorial: Asian Voices in Children's Literature0
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Empathy as Mandate: Revisiting the Debates over Modern Chinese Children's Literature (1919–1949)0
Dust off the Gold Medal: Rediscovering Children’s Literature at the Newbery Centennial. Eds. Sara L. Schwebel and Jocelyn Van Tuyl0
Quince Duncan's Los cuentos de Anansi: Reframing Young Black Lives in Anti-Racist Costa Rican Children's Literature0
Jellyfish, Lions, and Ducks: Sideways Spirals of Growth in Lucy Ellmann'sDucks, Newburyport0
From Wallflowers to Bulletproof Families: The Power of Disability in Young Adult Narratives by Abbye E. Meyer0
Confronting (Post-)War Precariousness and Precarity: Socialist Yugoslav Literature for Children0
Fairy Tales of Genocide: Processing the Holocaust by Recontextualising Fairy-Tale Narratives0
The Translation of Violence in Children’s Literature: Images from the Western Balkans. Marija Todorova0
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Floating Minds: How Young Adult Fiction Represents Forgetting in Old Age and Adolescence0
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Introduction: Black Spaces in International Children's Literature0
Intergenerational Solidarity in Children’s Literature and Film. Eds Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak and Zoe Jaques0
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Space, Place, and Children’s Reading Development: Mapping the Connections. Margaret Mackey0
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Children's Culture and Citizenship in Argentina: A History of Billiken Magazine (1919–2019) by Lauren Rea0
African American Adolescent Female Heroes: The Twenty-First Century Young Adult Neo-Slave Narrative by Melanie A. Marotta0
‘Music from the Deepest Dark’: Productions of Space in David Almond'sA Song for Ella Grey0
Hitlers jongste hoop. Nazipropaganda voor de jeugd [Hitler's youngest hope: Nazi propaganda for children]. Gerard Groeneveld0
Creating Space for Black Girl Power in Fred Crump, Jr.’s Transformative Fairy Tales0
Children’s Literature in the Nordic World by Nina Christensen and Charlotte Appel and På sporet af børn og bøger. Læsekultur og medier 1750–1850 [In search of children and books: reading0
Environmental Justice through Nostalgia and Solastalgia: Literary Representations of Ethnic Minority Children in Rural China0
‘The End Lies in the Beginning’: Embracing Childhood and Old Age in Susan Hill's Ghost NovelsThe Small HandandDolly0
Next-Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Children's Historical Fiction: The Seeds of Memory. Mateusz Świetlicki.0
Challenging Perceptions: A Post-Representational Reading of The Fate of Fausto0
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Equipping Space Cadets: Primary Science Fiction for Young Children by Emily Midkiff0
Fashioning Alice: The Career of Lewis Carroll's Icon, 1860–1901. Kiera Vaclavik0
The Pedagogy of Images: Depicting Communism for Children. Eds Marina Balina and Serguei Alex Oushakine0
Representing Evolutionary Theory in Nonfiction Picturebooks0
Theory for Beginners: Children's Literature as Critical Thought. Kenneth B. Kidd0
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‘Like a Spotlight Was Trained on Me’: Breaking Dawn and the Twilight of Capitalism0
Caribbean Children's Literature, Vol. 2: Critical Approaches edited by Betsy Nies and Melissa García Vega0
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Children as Filmmakers: Well-Being, Social Ecology, and Cognitive Mapping inDelhi at Eleven0
What Was Huck Running Away From? Rebellion, Canonicity, and the Chinese Translation of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn0
Translation of Visual Phraseological Units in Pilkey’s Dog Man0
Introduction: Aesthetic & Pedagogic Entanglements0
The Silent Unseen and Underground Soldiers: Polish–Ukrainian Conflicts and Collaboration in Amanda McCrina’s Second World War Fiction0
Differences, Idiosyncrasies, and Shared Humanity: Reconceptualising Crossover Literature0
The Body of the Antagonist in Current Spanish Novels for Children and Young Adults0
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Deleuze in Children's Literature. Jane Newland0
Community and Individuality in Chinese and American Picturebooks: A Contrastive Study of Constructs of Childhood0
Children's Cultures after Childhood by Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak and Macarena García-González0
Thinking Queerly: Medievalism, Wizardry, and Neurodiversity in Young Adult Texts. Jes Battis0
‘Can You Hear My Cry?’ Representing War and Trauma in Picturebooks for Peace from China, South Korea, and Japan0
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Monstrous Youth: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States by Sara Austin0
Congress Issue of International Research in Children’s Literature: Global Childhood Ecologies0
Sexuality in Literature for Children and Young Adults. Eds Paul Venzo and Kristine Moruzi0
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Estrategias de mediación cultural en emergencias: lectura y escritura como refugios simbólicos, Tomos I y II [Strategies of cultural mediation in emergencies: reading and writing as symbolic re0
Building Children's Worlds: The Representation of Architecture and Modernity in Picturebooks edited by Torsten Schmiedeknecht, Jill Rudd, and Emma Hayward0
Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling. Philip Pullman. Ed. Simon Mason0
Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture. Children's Literature Association Series. Derritt Mason0
Ideological Manipulation of Children’s Literature Through Translation and Rewriting: Travelling Across Times and Places. Vanessa Leonardi0
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Terror and Counter-Terror in Contemporary British Children’s Literature by Blanka Grzegorczyk0
Navigating Children's Literature through Controversy: Global and Transnational Perspectives. Edited by Elżbieta Jamróz-Stolarska, Mateusz Świetlicki, and Agata Zarzycka.0
Queer Oz: L. Frank Baum’s Trans Tales and Other Astounding Adventures in Sex and Gender by Tison Pugh0
Yo mediador(a). Mediación y formación de lectores [I, mediator. Mediation and readers' formation] by Felipe Munita0
Transnational Books for Children 1750–1900: Producers, Consumers, Encounters. Edited by Caroline Appel, Nina Christensen, and Matthew O. Grenby.0
Growing Up with America: Youth, Myth, and National Identity, 1945 to Present. Emily A. Murphy0
The Cuteness Quotient: Penguins, Picturebooks, and Environmental Education0
Introduction: Children’s Literature and Global Childhood Ecologies0
Call for Papers: IRSCL21 Congress Special Issue0
Speech and Silence in Contemporary Children’s Literature by Danielle E. Price0
Children and Biography: Reading and Writing Life Stories by Kate Douglas0
L. M. Montgomery’s ‘Emily of New Moon’: A Children’s Classic at 100 by Yan Du and Joe Sutliff Sanders0
Modern Iranian Female Identity in Farhad Hassanzadeh's Hasti0
Lezioni di Fantastica: Storia di Gianni Rodari. [Lectures on fantastic: the history of Gianni Rodari]. Vanessa Roghi0
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Political Changes and Transformations in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Children's Literature. Edited by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer and Farriba Schulz.0
Directions of Desire: Reading the Adolescent Body0
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Child Narrator, Narratorial Uncertainty, and Ethics in Lin Haiyin's My Memories of Old Beijing0
Frontiers of Boyhood: Imagining America, Past and Future. Martin Woodside0
Translating England into Russian: The Politics of Children's Literature in the Soviet Union and Modern Russia. Elena Goodwin0
Call for Papers: Transnational Turns in Children’s Literature0
Enseñando a sentir. Repertorios éticos en la ficción infantil [Teaching how to feel: ethical repertoires in fiction for children] by Macarena García González0
Challenging Stereotypes through Visual Narratives: The Figure of the Grandfather in Children's Picturebooks and Graphic Narratives0
‘For She Was an Independent Woman, or Nearly, Anyway’: The Sexualisation of Neo-Victorian Girls in Philip Pullman’s Sally Lockhart Series0
Mothers and Murderers: Adults' Oppression of Children and Adolescents in Young Adult Dystopian Literature. Malin Alkestrand0
Matters of Life and Death: Transnational Manifestations of Power in Two Multicultural Picturebooks0
Louisa May Alcott and the Textual Child: A Critical Theory Approach. Kristina West0
To Catch a Spy: Children, Espionage, and the Blurring of Boundaries in First World War Children’s Literature0
Positioning Pooh: Edward Bear after 100 Years. Ed. Jennifer Harrison0
They Also Write for Kids: Cross-Writing, Activism, and Children's Literature by Suzanne Manizza Roszak0
The Politics of Aesthetics of Tara Books'The London Jungle Bookby Bhajju Shyam0
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Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene: Imagining Futures and Dreaming Hope in Literature and Media. Eds Marek Oziewicz, Brian Attebery, and Tereza Dědinová0
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