This book explores representations of child autonomy and self-governance in children’s literature.The idea of child rule and child realms is central to childr

Winner of the 2023 Edited Book Award from the International Research Society for Children's Literature Contributions by Aneesh Barai, Clémentine Beauvais, Just

Children's book awards have mushroomed since the early twentieth-century and especially since the 1960s, when literary prizing became a favored strategy for bot

This volume focuses on the (de)canonization processes in children’s literature, considering the construction and cultural-historical changes of canons in diff