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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Personification Metaphors in Children’s Picturebooks about Nature: A Multimodal Cognitive Stylistic Study9
Discovering the Child’s Voice in Intergenerational Comics4
Atravesados: Essays on Queer Latinx Young Adult Literature edited by Trevor Boffone and Cristina Herrera3
The Glocal Practice of Anthropomorphism: Storying Chinese Wild Animals for Young Readers3
Growing Sideways in Twenty-First Century British Culture: Challenging Boundaries between Childhood and Adulthood. Anne Malewski3
Plants in Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Eds Melanie Duckworth and Lykke Guanio-Uluru2
Compelling Stories for English Language Learners: Creativity, Interculturality and Critical Literacy by Janice Bland2
Representation of War Trauma through Graphic Narratives for Younger Audiences2
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 Picturebooks2
Russian Translations of Parodies of Didactic Verses in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: What Got Lost in the Rabbit Hole?1
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Feminist Discourse in Irish Literature: Gender and Power in Louise O’Neill’s Young Adult Fiction by Jennifer Mooney1
Caribbean Children's Literature, Volume 1: History, Pedagogy, and Publishing. Edited by Betsy Nies and Melissa García Vega.1
Roald Dahl's Sharpshooter Red Riding Hood and Ecocriticism in Revolting Rhymes1
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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 Macarena1
The Forest Newspaper : Depicting Nature and Animals for the Soviet and Post-Soviet Child1
The School Story: Young Adult Narratives in the Age of Neoliberalism. David Aitchison1
Translating Postmodern Picturebooks: The Incredible Book Eating Boy in Japanese, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese1
Quince Duncan's Los cuentos de Anansi: Reframing Young Black Lives in Anti-Racist Costa Rican Children's Literature1
Engaging with the World: A Historical Study of Urdu and Hindi Children’s Periodicals of Colonial North India1
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The Borders of Empathy in Children’s Fiction by Macarena García-González1
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
Thinking with the Childadult: Children’s Literature and the Anthropocene1
Introduction: A Child and the Pictures of War1
Space, Place, and Children’s Reading Development: Mapping the Connections. Margaret Mackey1
A Companion to Soviet Children's Literature and Film. Ed. Olga Voronina1
Argentinian Children's Literature and Independent Publishing Houses: Emerging Forms in the Re-editions of María Teresa Andruetto's Poems0
A Bird's Eye View of Migration: Ömür Kurt's Yaban Ördeği Ailesinin Göç Yolculuğu  –  The Migration of the Wild Duck Family 0
Children's Literature and Translation: Texts and Contexts. Eds Jan Van Coillie and Jack McMartin0
The Cuteness Quotient: Penguins, Picturebooks, and Environmental Education0
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
Enseñando a sentir. Repertorios éticos en la ficción infantil [Teaching how to feel: ethical repertoires in fiction for children] by Macarena García González0
Comparative Analysis of Fairy Tales by Milena Mileva Blažić0
Children's Cultures after Childhood by Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak and Macarena García-González0
Child Narrator, Narratorial Uncertainty, and Ethics in Lin Haiyin's My Memories of Old Beijing0
Representing Evolutionary Theory in Nonfiction Picturebooks0
The Translation of Violence in Children’s Literature: Images from the Western Balkans. Marija Todorova0
African American Adolescent Female Heroes: The Twenty-First Century Young Adult Neo-Slave Narrative by Melanie A. Marotta0
Rewriting the History of Chinese Children’s Literature by Jie Mei0
Yo mediador(a). Mediación y formación de lectores [I, mediator. Mediation and readers' formation] by Felipe Munita0
The Child and the Animal in Times of War: Halahmy’s The Emergency Zoo and Contemporary News Reports on the War in Ukraine0
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Editorial0
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Introduction: Latin American Children's Literature and Culture0
Call for Papers: Latin American Children’s Literature and Culture0
Contemporary Children’s and Young Adult Literature: Writing Back to History and Oppression by Charlotte Beyer0
Call for Papers: Transnational Turns in Children’s Literature0
Storying Plants in Australian Children’s and Young Adult Literature: Roots and Winged Seeds edited by Melanie Duckworth and Annika Herb0
Growing Up with America: Youth, Myth, and National Identity, 1945 to Present. Emily A. Murphy0
Reading for Pleasure: International Perspectives edited by Teresa Cremin and Sarah McGeown0
Young Poets and Black Spaces: Vanessa Howard’s Poetics of Nature0
The Discursive Construction of Childhood in Three Turkish Children’s Books about the Cyprus Problem0
‘Wild and Distrustful Children’: Building an Imagined Philippines During the American Colonial Period0
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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
The Postcolonial Little Prince: A Comparative Analysis of Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince and Other Works0
Political Changes and Transformations in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Children's Literature. Edited by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer and Farriba Schulz.0
Reading and Authoring Young Adult Transmedia Storyworlds0
War Trauma in Young Women's Memories of a Violent Past in Southeast Asia0
Environmental Justice through Nostalgia and Solastalgia: Literary Representations of Ethnic Minority Children in Rural China0
Virtual Erasure: Ntozake Shange, Black Spaces, Wealth, and Children’s Biographies0
Queer Oz: L. Frank Baum’s Trans Tales and Other Astounding Adventures in Sex and Gender by Tison Pugh0
Comparative Children’s Literature: Comparative Study of Slovene Children’s Literature in an International Context by Milena Mileva Blažić0
The Drinking Curriculum: A Cultural History of Childhood and Alcohol by Elizabeth Marshall0
From Wallflowers to Bulletproof Families: The Power of Disability in Young Adult Narratives by Abbye E. Meyer0
Tending to the Past: Selfhood and Culture in Children’s Narratives about Slavery and Freedom by Karen Michele Chandler0
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The Role of Plants in Contemporary Swedish and Norwegian Picturebooks0
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A Fabled Reading of a Korean Story: The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly0
Żywioły w literaturze dziecięcej. Ogień [Elements in children’s literature: fire]. Eds Anna Czabanowska-Wróbel and Krystyna Zabawa0
Fleeing Nazi Persecution: Jewish Refugee Child Diarists as Family Chroniclers0
A Desire Seeks Its Dwelling: Gendering Literature Teaching from the Contributions of Feminist Pedagogies0
Youth Fiction and Trans Representation by Tom Sandercock0
A Contrapuntal Reading of Child-Focused Discourses in Chinese and Western Children's Literature Theory0
Houses and Backyards: Telling Stories through Lived Spaces in Two Portuguese Picturebooks0
The Reader as Player: Exploring the Notion of Aesthetic and Efferent Gaming0
Negotiating the Unfamiliar: Translation of Lafcadio Hearn's Some Chinese Ghosts in Early Twentieth-Century Poland0
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Fairy Tales of Genocide: Processing the Holocaust by Recontextualising Fairy-Tale Narratives0
A Very Hungry Week: Challenges of Timekeeping in the Anthropocene0
‘Just a bit of fluff and happiness’: Examining Romantic Rewritings of Respair in YA Sexual Assault Narrative Fanfiction0
Negotiating Translation and Transcreation of Children’s Literature: From Alice to the Moomins. Eds Joanna Dybiec-Gajer, Riitta Oittinen, and Małgorzata Kodura0
The Reparative Impulse of Queer Young Adult Literature by Angel Daniel Matos0
Representations of Children and Success in Asia: Dream Chaser edited by Shih-Wen Sue Chen and Sin Wen Lau0
Intergenerational Solidarity in Children’s Literature and Film. Eds Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak and Zoe Jaques0
Creating Space for Black Girl Power in Fred Crump, Jr.’s Transformative Fairy Tales0
Power-Knowledge-Pleasure and the Politics of Domination in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials0
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Dust off the Gold Medal: Rediscovering Children’s Literature at the Newbery Centennial. Eds. Sara L. Schwebel and Jocelyn Van Tuyl0
They Also Write for Kids: Cross-Writing, Activism, and Children's Literature by Suzanne Manizza Roszak0
Risk in Children’s Adventure Literature by Elly McCausland0
Capitalist Contaminations of Childhood and Pedagogical Dilutions of Literature during Chile's Popular Unity Government (1970–1973)0
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The Pandemic through the Child's Window: Languaging Health in Filipino Storybooks on COVID-190
The Order and the Other: Young Adult Dystopian Literature and Science Fiction by Joseph W. Campbell0
Thinking Queerly: Medievalism, Wizardry, and Neurodiversity in Young Adult Texts. Jes Battis0
Note from the Senior Editor0
Sterben, Tod und Jenseits in der graphischen Literatur: Schlüsselbildanalysen in Bilderbüchern und Graphic Novels [Dying, death, and afterlife in graphic literature: image a0
‘I Became Much Wiser over Time’: Readers’ Use of Innocence and Wisdom as Age Norms in Responses to Children’s Literature0
Child Soldier Narratives and the Underrepresentation of Females in Fighting Forces0
Girls at War, Girls in War: Three Female African Child Soldier Narratives0
Positioning Pooh: Edward Bear after 100 Years. Ed. Jennifer Harrison0
The Silent Unseen and Underground Soldiers: Polish–Ukrainian Conflicts and Collaboration in Amanda McCrina’s Second World War Fiction0
Children and Biography: Reading and Writing Life Stories by Kate Douglas0
Translating England into Russian: The Politics of Children's Literature in the Soviet Union and Modern Russia. Elena Goodwin0
Terror and Counter-Terror in Contemporary British Children’s Literature by Blanka Grzegorczyk0
‘For She Was an Independent Woman, or Nearly, Anyway’: The Sexualisation of Neo-Victorian Girls in Philip Pullman’s Sally Lockhart Series0
How Informational Activity Picturebooks Work: Interactive Invitation to a Critical Approach to Knowledge0
Queer Species in Moominvalley: A Posthumanist Reading of Tove Jansson's Moomin Books0
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Stigmatisation, Marginalisation, and Agency in Keluarga Cemara, an Indonesian Young Adult Series0
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British Activist Authors Addressing Children of Colour by Karen Sands-O’Connor0
Introduction: Transnational Turns in Children’s Literature0
Shifting Geographies of Memory and Imagination: Transnational and Transgenerational Turns in David Almond’s Paper Boat, Paper Bird0
Organising Life: Mechanisms of Human Exceptionalism in a Corpus of Picturebooks about Death0
Antarctica in British Children's Literature. Sinéad Moriarty0
Building Children's Worlds: The Representation of Architecture and Modernity in Picturebooks edited by Torsten Schmiedeknecht, Jill Rudd, and Emma Hayward0
Speech and Silence in Contemporary Children’s Literature by Danielle E. Price0
Community and Individuality in Chinese and American Picturebooks: A Contrastive Study of Constructs of Childhood0
Out of Reach: The Ideal Girl in American Girls’ Serial Literature. Kate G. Harper0
Congress Issue of International Research in Children’s Literature: Global Childhood Ecologies0
To Catch a Spy: Children, Espionage, and the Blurring of Boundaries in First World War Children’s Literature0
Robert Westall’s The Machine-Gunners and Children’s Literature about War: A Comparative Study of Critical Reception in Great Britain and Japan0
Writings on Childhood by the ‘Mid-century Generation’ in Postwar Spanish Literature0
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Note from the Senior Editor0
Translation of Visual Phraseological Units in Pilkey’s Dog Man0
An (Auto)Biographical-Traumatic Pact with a Child in Wojny dorosłych – historie dzieci [Wars of Adults – Stories of Children]0
Monstrous Youth: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States by Sara Austin0
Carroll, Baum, Barrie. (Mito)biografie i (mikro)historie [Caroll, Baum, Barrie. (Mytho)biographies and (micro)stories] by Maciej Skowera0
Caribbean Children's Literature, Vol. 2: Critical Approaches edited by Betsy Nies and Melissa García Vega0
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How Gender Can Travel, or Not, through Children’s Books: A Comparison of Poland and the United States0
Next-Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Children's Historical Fiction: The Seeds of Memory. Mateusz Świetlicki.0
Sexuality in Literature for Children and Young Adults. Eds Paul Venzo and Kristine Moruzi0
British Children's Literature in Japanese Culture: Wonderlands and Looking-Glasses. Catherine Butler.0
A representação da criança na literatura infantojuvenil [The representation of children in children's literature] by Isabel Lopes Coelho0
Children’s Books on the Big Screen. Meghann Meeusen0
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Introduction: Black Spaces in International Children's Literature0
Directions of Desire: Reading the Adolescent Body0
‘Sing, My Child’: The Lullaby's Dialogical Emotional Atmosphere in Magdalena Fleitas's ‘Rayito de sol’0
Introduction: Aesthetic & Pedagogic Entanglements0
Differences, Idiosyncrasies, and Shared Humanity: Reconceptualising Crossover Literature0
Ethical Identity Recognition and Political Choice: The Revised Editions and Reissue of the Kangzhan ertong [The Children in the War against Invasion]0
Ideological Manipulation of Children’s Literature Through Translation and Rewriting: Travelling Across Times and Places. Vanessa Leonardi0
Children's Culture and Citizenship in Argentina: A History of Billiken Magazine (1919–2019) by Lauren Rea0
Articulate Silence: Books and Readers in Jason Chin’s Coral Reefs and Redwoods0
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Children’s Literature: A Joint Venture0
‘Small Existential Fractures and an Interrogative Relationship with the World’: An Existentialist Reading of Frances Hardinge’s A Face Like Glass0
Radical Equality in Ghanaian Market Fiction for Children0
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Speech and Silence in Contemporary Children’s Literature by Danielle E. Price0
Transnational Books for Children 1750–1900: Producers, Consumers, Encounters. Edited by Caroline Appel, Nina Christensen, and Matthew O. Grenby.0
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Equipping Space Cadets: Primary Science Fiction for Young Children by Emily Midkiff0
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Lezioni di Fantastica: Storia di Gianni Rodari. [Lectures on fantastic: the history of Gianni Rodari]. Vanessa Roghi0
Teens on TikTok: Understanding Young People’s Digital Agency as Practice0
Material Green Entanglements: Research on Student Teachers’ Aesthetic and Ecocritical Engagement with Picturebooks of Their Own Choice0
Growing up Graphic: The Comics of Children in Crisis. Alison Halsall.0
IRSCL Statement on the War in Ukraine0
The ‘Gentle Recitation’: Writing Trauma in Contemporary Children's and Young Adult Literature0
The Child Protagonist as Agent and Subject inHarriet's DaughterandCrick Crack, Monkey0
Historical and Cultural Transformations of Russian Childhood: Myth and Realities edited by Marina Balina, Larissa Rudova, and Anastasia Kostetskaya0
L. M. Montgomery’s ‘Emily of New Moon’: A Children’s Classic at 100 by Yan Du and Joe Sutliff Sanders0
Complicating the Country: Rural Identities and Environmental Values in Youth Fiction0
Reclaiming Time, Rewriting Space: Diasporic Transnationalism in Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti and Tomi Adeyemi’s Legacy of Orïsha 0
Family in Children’s and Young Adult Literature edited by Eleanor Spencer and Jade Dillon Craig0
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The Body of the Antagonist in Current Spanish Novels for Children and Young Adults0
The Figure of the Child in WWI American, British, and Canadian Children's Literature: Farmer, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Elizabeth A. Galway0
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Side by Side: US Empire, Puerto Rico, and the Roots of American Youth Literature and Culture by Marilisa Jiménez García0
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Alt Kid Lit: What Children's Literature Might Be. Edited by Kenneth B. Kidd and Derritt Mason.0
Confronting (Post-)War Precariousness and Precarity: Socialist Yugoslav Literature for Children0
Containing Childhood: Space and Identity in Children’s Literature edited by Danielle Russell0
Introduction: Children’s Literature and Global Childhood Ecologies0
The Sounds and Colours of Harlem: Sharing the Secrets of African American Urban Landscapes0
Memory in Pictures: Ukrainian Comics ( Malopys ) across War0
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Gareth B. Matthews, The Child's Philosopher. Eds Maughn Rollins Gregory and Megan Jane Laverty0
The Dark Matter of Children’s ‘Fantastika’ Literature: Speculative Entanglements by Chloé Germaine0
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
Children's Film Studies: Past, Present, and Future Directions0
‘Good Cause for Living’: Environmental Justice in Virginia Hamilton’s M. C. Higgins, the Great0
Transforming Girls: The Work of Nineteenth-Century Adolescence. Julie Pfeiffer0
International LGBTQ+ Literature for Children and Young Adults. Eds B. J. Epstein and Elizabeth L. Chapman0
‘Children My Age Should Be Reading Books Like Journey to Jo’burg’: Patterns of Anti-Racist Reading in Archived Reader Responses0
Challenging Perceptions: A Post-Representational Reading of The Fate of Fausto0
Consumable Reading and Children's Literature: Food, Taste and Material Interactions by Ilgım Veryeri Alaca0
The Truth, the Partial Truth, and Anything but the Truth: Textual Constructions of Veracity in Siobhan Dowd's Bog Child0
The Pedagogy of Images: Depicting Communism for Children. Eds Marina Balina and Serguei Alex Oushakine0
Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene: Imagining Futures and Dreaming Hope in Literature and Media. Eds Marek Oziewicz, Brian Attebery, and Tereza Dědinová0
Deleuze in Children's Literature. Jane Newland0
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
The Child Gaze: Narrating Resistance in American Literature by Amanda M. Greenwell0
Anne Frank in China: Translation, Adaptation, and Reception0
Mothers and Murderers: Adults' Oppression of Children and Adolescents in Young Adult Dystopian Literature. Malin Alkestrand0
Where the Wild Things Are: An-Other Critique of Niki Daly’s Pretty Salma0
‘Like a Spotlight Was Trained on Me’: Breaking Dawn and the Twilight of Capitalism0
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Note from the Senior Editor0
Representations of Art and Art Museums in Children’s Picture Books by Perry Nodelman0
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
Navigating Children's Literature through Controversy: Global and Transnational Perspectives. Edited by Elżbieta Jamróz-Stolarska, Mateusz Świetlicki, and Agata Zarzycka.0
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Space, Place, and Children’s Reading Development: Mapping the Connections by Margaret Mackey0
Age in David Almond’s Oeuvre: A Multi-Method Approach to Studying Age and the Life Course in Children’s Literature by Vanessa Joosen, Michelle Anya Anjirbag, Leander Duthoy,0
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