Keywords for Children's Literature, Second Edition

Even the most sophisticated scholars will enjoy seeing how their colleagues achieve the feat of crafting such delicious distillations within the given space constraints. This book is a monumental achievement. -- Claudia Mills, Children's Literature Association
This book presents ... thoughtful essays based on various concepts pertaining to children's literature, including genres, literary theories, and the history of children's literature ... This volume will be very useful, especially for colleges and universities with children's literature programs. Highly recommended. -- J. Stevens, Choice
Overall, this volume succeeds quite well in focusing attention on how we discuss children's literature. The[se] essays are models of thoughtful inquiry into words we frequently use, often without considering how they have been transformed over time. -- Myra Zarnowski, Teachers College Record
By distilling the complex uses of its core terms, the contributors to Keywords for Children's Literature have produced an indispensable handbook for scholars in this dynamic field. -- Donald E. Pease, author of Theodor SEUSS Geisel
Keywords for Children's Literature demonstrates how sophisticated the critical approaches to the burgeoning field of children's literature have become. Not only do the essays on keywords, written by some of the most capable professors in the field, elaborate important concepts in the history of children's literature, but they cover significant cultural debates and discussions. This superb volume of scholarship demonstrates definitively that adult literature cannot be understood without grasping its roots in children's literature. -- Jack Zipes, University of Minnesota

"Anyone who reads the collection may find herself—as this reviewer did—continuing the scholarly conversation by putting the premises of one essay in dialogue with others in the volume…. [O]ne of the intellectual pleasures Keywords offers is surprising readers to reconsider their understanding of words that they may have taken for granted.”
—Adrienne Kertzer, The Lion and the Unicorn, Vol. 46., No. 1 (Jan 2022).

* The Lion and the Unicorn *
It is a broad and nuanced selection that reads its contemporaries well and far manages to capture the vast array of new studies and theoretical perspectives that have enriched and deepened our understanding of children’s literature in the 21st century. … an excellent and necessary interlocutor for further thinking about the complex issues surrounding children’s literature and the multifaceted context in which it is created, read, analysed and debated. -- Maria Lassén-Seger * Barnboken *