Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Coats, Karen, 1963- editor. | Stevenson, Deborah, 1962- editor. | Yenika-Agbaw, Vivian S. 1959- editor.
Title: A companion to children’s literature / edited by Karen Coats, Deborah Stevenson, and Vivian Yenika Agbaw.
Description: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley & Sons, 2022. |Series: [Blackwell companions to literature and culture] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021061535 (print) | LCCN 2021061536 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119038221 (hardback) | ISBN 9781119038238 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119038269 (pdf) | ISBN 9781119038252 (epub) | ISBN 9781119038276 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Children’s literature—History and criticism. | Young adult literature—History and criticism.
Classification: LCC PN1009.A1 C644 2022 (print) | LCC PN1009.A1 (ebook) | DDC 809/.89282—dc23/eng/20220203
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021061535
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021061536
Cover Design: Wiley
Cover Image: © Terry Vine/Getty Images
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Dedicated to our wonderful and much-missed colleague, Vivian Yenika-Agbaw, May 21, 1959–September 30, 2021
Contents
1 Cover
8 Part I: Early Works 1 Juvenile Nonfiction before the Golden Age of Anglo-American Children’s Literature 2 The Beginnings of Fiction for Children 3 Folklore in Children’s Literature 4 The Victorian Picturebook 5 The Child-Centered Universe of Nineteenth-Century Children’s Nonfiction
9 Part II: Twentieth-Century Developments 6 Developments in Fiction for Children 7 Developments of Picturebooks 8 Walt Disney and the Fairy Tale 9 Stay Tuned: A Political History of Saturday Morning Cartoons 10 Live-Action Films for Children 11 BreakBeat and the New Auditory Avant-garde – for Children! (Or, That New-fangled Noise the Kids Are All Going On About) 12 Children’s Literature of the Anglophone Caribbean
10 Part III: Contemporary Trends and Texts 13 Children’s Information Books: Initiatives and Trends 14 Contemporary Trends in Fiction for Children 15 Contemporary Poetry for Children: Toward Diversity, Complexity, and Innovation 16 Picturebook Futures 17 Postmodern Fairy Tales 18 Theatre and Playwriting for Young Audiences 19 The Portrayal of Girlhoods in Graphic Narratives for Children 20 Playing Children’s Literature: Games in and the Gamification of Books for Kids 21 Digital Children’s Literature: Current Understandings and Future Directions
11 Part IV: Ways of Reading 22 Critical Multiculturalism and Children’s Literature: Trends and Possibilities 23 Cultural Diversity and Social Justice: Readings from the South 24 Black Critical Theory in Children’s Literary Analysis: Why It Matters 25 Critical Discourse Studies and the Scholarship of Children’s Literature 26 Disability 27 Growing Up Together: Children’s Literature and Women’s Studies 28 Read, Write, Play, Review: Young Children’s Connected Reading Communities 29 Posthumanism 30 Narrative Theory and Children’s Literature 31 Animal Studies 32 Trauma Studies 33 Censorship and Children’s Literature 34 The Commodification,
