Edinburgh Companion to Children's Literature

Clémentine Beauvais is a Lecturer in Education at the University of York. She has worked on politically committed literature for children, on existentialist theorisations of children’s literature, and more recently on the history and cultural sociology of child giftedness. She is the author of The Mighty Child: Time and Power in Children’s Literature (2015). Maria Nikolajeva is Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge and director of the Cambridge Research and Teaching Centre for Children's Literature. She was the president of the International Research Society for Children's Literature 1993-97 and received the International Grimm Award for lifetime achievement in children's literature research. Her most recent books are Power, Voice and Subjectivity in Literature for Young People (2010) and Reading for Learning: Cognitive Approaches to Children's Literature (2014).

• Introduction Maria Nikolajeva and Clémentine Beauvais Part I. Contemporary directions in children’s literature scholarshipTeaching the conflicts: Diverse responses to diverse children’s booksKaren CoatsPosthumanism: Rethinking ‘the human’ in modern children’s literatureVictoria FlanaganAnimal studies Zoe JaquesSpatiality in fantasy for childrenJane Carroll A question of scale: Zooming out and zooming in on feminist ecocriticismAlice CurryAge studies and children’s literature Vanessa Joosen Carnality in adolescent literatureLydia KokkolaCognitive narratology and adolescent fictionRoberta Seelinger TritesEmpirical approaches to place and the construction of adolescent identitiesErin SpringPicturebooks and situated readers: The intersections of text, image, culture and responseEvelyn ArizpeRe-memorying: A new phenomenological methodology in children’s literature studiesAlison Waller　Part II: Contemporary trends in children’s and young adult literature Canons and canonicity Anja MüllerSeriality in children’s literatureBettina Kümmerling-MeibauerCounterfactual historical fiction for children and young adultsCatherine ButlerPattern, texture and print: New technology, old aesthetic in contemporary picturebook-makingMartin SalisburyTelling stories in different formats: New directions in digital stories for childrenJunko YokotaMultimodality and multiliteracies: Production and receptionMargaret MackeySerendipity, independent publishing and translation flow: Recent translations for children in the UKGillian Lathey The picturebook in instructed foreign language learning contexts Sandie Mourão　Part III: Unmapped territories 20. Next of kin: ‘The child’ and ‘the adult’ in children’s literature theory today and tomorrowClémentine Beauvais21. Critical plant studies and children’s literatureLydia Kokkola22. Health, sickness and literature for childrenJean Webb23 .Evolutionary criticism and children’s literatureMaria Nikolajeva24. The genetic study of children’s literature Vanessa Joosen25. Distant reading and thin description Eugene Giddens26. Hogwarts versus Svalbard: Cultures, literacies and game adaptations of children’s literatureAndrew Burn27. Hybrid novels for children and young adultsEve Tandoi28. Cyberspace and story: The impact of digital media on printed children’s booksVictoria Flanagan

It has been a true delight for the reviewer to discover The Edinburgh Companion to Children's Literature to be an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and future-oriented companion that can be recommended to a broad audience. It is an inspiring encouragement to map new territories of Children's literature or to carefully reconsider and nuance those already sketched.