Claudia Nelson is Professor Emerita of English at Texas A&M University, USA.Elisabeth Wesseling is Professor of Cultural Memory, Gender and Diversity and at Maastricht University, the Netherlands.Andrea Mei-Ying Wu is Director of the Chinese Language Center and Professor of Children’s Literature and Taiwanese Literature at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.

• Introduction PART IConcepts and tools Section introduction1 Theory Karín Lesnik-Oberstein2 Poetics and PedagogyKaren Coats3 Ethics and Historical PerspectivesAmanda K. Allen4 Children’s Literary GeographyBjörn Sundmark and Chrysogonus Siddha Malilang5 The Monster at the End of This Book:Posthumanism and New Materialism in the Scholarship of Children’s LiteratureMegan L. Musgrave6 Digital Humanities and Children’s LiteratureDeanna Stover7 Research with Young Readers: Participatory Approaches in Children’s Literature Studies Justyna Deszcz-TryhubczakPART IIMedia and genresSection introduction8 PicturebooksBettina Kümmerling-Meibauer9 Books for BeginnersAnnette Wannamaker and Jennifer Miskec 10 MagazinesKristine Moruzi11 Comics for Children Across CulturesJoseph Michael Sommers12 Children’s Fiction: The Possibilities of Reality and ImaginationDeborah Stevenson 13 NonfictionGiorgia Grilli14 Children’s PoetryMichael Joseph15 Theatre and Drama: Global PerspectivesManon van de Water16 Film Christine Lötscher17 TelevisionDebbie Olson18 Playful Possibilities: The Rights of the Reader in a Digital Age Angela ColvertPART IIIIdentitiesSection introduction19 Age Vanessa Joosen20 Gender Mia Österlund and Åsa Warnqvist21 Nation and CitizenshipSara Van den Bossche22 Religion and Children’s LiteratureGabriele von Glasenapp23 Whatever Common People Do: Social Class in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British Children’s FictionKimberley Reynolds and Jane Rosen 24 Race and Ethnicity in Children’s LiteratureTrevor Boffone and Cristina Herrera25 LGBTQ+ Discourses in Eastern and Central European Children’s Literature Mateusz Świetlicki26 Disability and Children’s LiteratureKimura Toshio and Yoshida JunkoPART IVBorder crossingsSection introduction27 TranslationEmer O’Sullivan28 RetranslationVirginie Douglas29 Adaptation Anja Müller30 Fairy Tales and Circulation: A Case Study in Poland Weronika Kostecka31 Children’s Literature and TransnationalismClare Bradford, Kristine Moruzi, and Michelle J. Smith 32 Transcultural Comparison as Method:Korean and Hebrew Children’s Poetry in the Early Twentieth CenturyDafna Zur and Rachel Feldman33 Marketing and FranchisingNaomi Hamer34 Children’s Literature Websites and FandomSara K. Day and Carrie SickmannPART VInstitutionsSection introduction35 Book Publishing and the British Sphere of Influence in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth CenturiesCourtney Weikle-Mills36 Children’s Book Publishing in Europe: A Historical ApproachEmily Bruce 37 Contemporary Asian Book PublishingShih-Wen Sue Chen38 From Canon-Making to Participatory Prizing: Children’s Book and Media AwardsRamona Caponegro and Kenneth B. Kidd39 Children’s Literature in SchoolsEtti Gordon Ginzburg40 LibrariesMargaret Mackey41 Book ClubsJulie Fette and Anne Morey42 Promoting Children’s Reading InternationallyValerie Coghlan43 Censorship and Shifting Contexts in Children’s LiteratureAndrew Zalot

“As someone who has long been engaged in the study of literature, I found this companion to be both intellectually enriching and inspiring. The depth of scholarship across a wide range of topics challenges conventional views and opens new avenues for understanding how children’s literature intersects with contemporary cultural and technological developments. I believe that this collection will not only serve as a valuable reference but also spark new conversations and research ideas, particularly for those of us who are passionate about exploring how literature shapes, and is shaped by, the world around us.”-- Enikő Nagy-Kolozsvári, Katalin Lizák