Mothers in Children's and Young Adult Literature

Lisa Rowe Fraustino, Ashford, Connecticut, is professor and chair of the Department of English at Eastern Connecticut State University. She has edited three collections of short fiction for young adults and authored several books for young readers, including the 2010 Milkweed Prize winner, The Hole in the Wall.Karen Coats, Normal, Illinois, is professor of English at Illinois State University. She is author of The Bloomsbury Introduction to Children's and Young Adult Literature; Looking Glass and Neverlands: Lacan, Desire, and Subjectivity in Children's Literature; and Children's Literature and the Developing Reader and coeditor of Handbook of Research on Children's and Young Adult Literature and The Gothic in Children's Literature: Haunting the Borders.

Mothers in Children's and Young Adult Literature is an exciting-even brilliant-collection of diverse criticism on a surprisingly under-studied topic. The thirteen astute essays chosen by Lisa Rowe Fraustino and Karen Coats use a wide array of theoretical approaches to investigate topics that range from innovation in an eighteenth century book for toddlers to animal mothering in picture books to the postfeminism of recent young adult novels."" - Beverly Lyon Clark, author of Kiddie Lit: The Cultural Construction of Children's Literature in America