Children's Literature and Culture books in order

Children's Literature and Culture is an academic book series exploring children's and young adult literature from scholarly perspectives, associated with Sinead Moriarty.

Reading order

# Title Published Author Buy on Amazon
1 Regendering the School Story 1996 Sinead Moriarty Buy
2 The Case of Peter Rabbit 1998 Sinead Moriarty Buy
3 Narrating Africa 1999 Sinead Moriarty Buy
4 How Picturebooks Work 2000 Sinead Moriarty Buy
5 Children’s Films 2000 Sinead Moriarty Buy
6 Empire’s Children 2000 Sinead Moriarty Buy
7 The Presence of the Past 2000 Sinead Moriarty Buy
8 The Poetics of Childhood 2002 Sinead Moriarty Buy
9 A Past Without Shadow 2004 Sinead Moriarty Buy
10 Brown Gold 2004 Sinead Moriarty Buy
11 The Making of the Modern Child 2004 Sinead Moriarty Buy
12 Ursula K. Le Guin Beyond Genre 2004 Sinead Moriarty Buy
13 Diana Wynne Jones 2005 Sinead Moriarty Buy
14 Youth of Darkest England 2005 Sinead Moriarty Buy
15 Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins 2006 Sinead Moriarty Buy
16 Voracious Children 2006 Sinead Moriarty Buy
17 National Character in South African English Children’s Literature 2006 Sinead Moriarty Buy
18 A Critical History of French Children’s Literature: Volume Two: 1830-Present 2007 Sinead Moriarty Buy
19 Representing Africa in Children’s Literature 2007 Sinead Moriarty Buy
20 Once Upon a Time in a Different World: Issues and Ideas in African American Children’s Literature 2007 Sinead Moriarty Buy
21 The Outside Child, In and Out of the Book 2007 Sinead Moriarty Buy
22 A Critical History of French Children’s Literature: Volume One: 1600-1830 2007 Sinead Moriarty Buy
23 Death, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Adolescent Literature 2008 Sinead Moriarty Buy
24 From Nursery Rhymes to Nationhood 2008 Sinead Moriarty Buy
25 Enterprising Youth 2008 Sinead Moriarty Buy
26 The Crossover Novel 2008 Sinead Moriarty Buy
27 Crossover Fiction: Global and Historical Perspectives 2008 Sinead Moriarty Buy
28 Constructing Adolescence in Fantastic Realism 2008 Sinead Moriarty Buy
29 Critical Approaches to Food in Children’s Literature 2008 Sinead Moriarty Buy
30 Neo-Imperialism in Children-s Literature About Africa 2008 Sinead Moriarty Buy
31 Shakespeare in Children’s Literature 2008 Sinead Moriarty Buy
32 Representations of Technology in Science Fiction for Young People 2009 Sinead Moriarty Buy
33 Fundamental Concepts of Children’s Literature Research 2009 Sinead Moriarty Buy
34 Translation Under State Control 2009 Sinead Moriarty Buy
35 Children’s Fiction about 9/11 2009 Sinead Moriarty Buy
36 Power, Voice and Subjectivity in Literature for Young Readers 2009 Sinead Moriarty Buy
37 Juvenile Literature and British Society, 1850-1950 2009 Sinead Moriarty Buy
38 The Children’s Book Business 2010 Sinead Moriarty Buy
39 New Directions in Picturebook Research 2010 Sinead Moriarty Buy
40 The Role of Translators in Children’s Literature 2010 Sinead Moriarty Buy
41 Humor in Contemporary Junior Literature 2010 Sinead Moriarty Buy
42 Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children’s Literature 2010 Sinead Moriarty Buy
43 Irish Children’s Literature and Culture 2010 Sinead Moriarty Buy
44 Reading the Adolescent Romance 2010 Sinead Moriarty Buy
45 Contemporary English-Language Indian Children’s Literature 2011 Sinead Moriarty Buy
46 Beyond Pippi Longstocking 2011 Sinead Moriarty Buy
47 The Myth of Persephone in Girls’ Fantasy Literature 2011 Sinead Moriarty Buy
48 Landscape in Children’s Literature 2012 Sinead Moriarty Buy
49 Boys in Children’s Literature and Popular Culture 2012 Sinead Moriarty Buy
50 Picturing the Wolf in Children’s Literature 2012 Sinead Moriarty Buy
51 Textual Transformations in Children’s Literature 2013 Sinead Moriarty Buy
52 Retelling Stories, Framing Culture 2013 Sinead Moriarty Buy
53 : Characterizations of African Americans, 1830-1900 2013 Sinead Moriarty Buy
54 The Place of Lewis Carroll in Children’s Literature 2013 Sinead Moriarty Buy
55 Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults 2013 Sinead Moriarty Buy
56 Rediscoveries in Children’s Literature 2013 Sinead Moriarty Buy
57 Second-Generation Memory and Contemporary Children’s Literature: Ghost Images 2013 Sinead Moriarty Buy
58 Sparing the Child: Grief and the Unspeakable in Youth Literature about Nazism and the Holocaust 2013 Sinead Moriarty Buy
59 Beatrix Potter 2013 Sinead Moriarty Buy
60 Transcending Boundaries 2013 Sinead Moriarty Buy
61 The Gothic in Children’s Literature 2013 Sinead Moriarty Buy
62 Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults 2013 Sinead Moriarty Buy
63 Recycling Red Riding Hood 2013 Sinead Moriarty Buy
64 Representing the Holocaust in Children’s Literature 2013 Sinead Moriarty Buy
65 Ways of Being Male 2013 Sinead Moriarty Buy
66 Inventing the Child 2013 Sinead Moriarty Buy
67 Childhood and Children’s Books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800 2013 Sinead Moriarty Buy
68 The Feminine Subject in Children’s Literature 2013 Sinead Moriarty Buy
69 Pinocchio Goes Postmodern 2014 Sinead Moriarty Buy
70 Russell Hoban/Forty Years 2014 Sinead Moriarty Buy
71 Discourses of Postcolonialism in Contemporary British Children’s Literature 2014 Sinead Moriarty Buy
72 Embodying Gender and Age in Speculative Fiction 2015 Sinead Moriarty Buy
73 The Early Reader in Children’s Literature and Culture 2015 Sinead Moriarty Buy
74 Children’s Literature and Culture of the First World War 2015 Sinead Moriarty Buy
75 The Big Smallness 2016 Sinead Moriarty Buy
76 The Future of the Nineteenth-Century Dream-Child: Fantasy, Dystopia, Cyberculture 2016 Sinead Moriarty Buy
77 Canon Constitution and Canon Change in Children’s Literature 2016 Sinead Moriarty Buy
78 Fictions of Integration 2017 Sinead Moriarty Buy
79 New Directions in Children’s Gothic 2017 Sinead Moriarty Buy
80 More Words about Pictures 2017 Sinead Moriarty Buy
81 Origin Narratives: The Stories We Tell Children About Immigration and International Adoption 2017 Sinead Moriarty Buy
82 The Beloved Does Not Bite 2017 Sinead Moriarty Buy
83 Affect, Emotion, and Children’s Literature 2017 Sinead Moriarty Buy
84 The Embodied Child: Readings in Children’s Literature and Culture 2017 Sinead Moriarty Buy
85 Childhood and Pethood in Literature and Culture 2017 Sinead Moriarty Buy
86 The Victorian Era in Twenty-First Century Children’s and Adolescent Literature and Culture 2018 Sinead Moriarty Buy
87 ‘The Right Thing to Read’: A History of Australian Girl-Readers, 1910-1960 2018 Sinead Moriarty Buy
88 Battling Girlhood 2018 Sinead Moriarty Buy
89 Cyborg Saints 2019 Sinead Moriarty Buy
90 Out of Reach 2019 Sinead Moriarty Buy
91 The Arctic in Literature for Children and Young Adults 2020 Sinead Moriarty Buy
92 Terror and Counter-Terror in Contemporary British Children’s Literature 2020 Sinead Moriarty Buy
93 ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature 2020 Sinead Moriarty Buy
94 Rulers of Literary Playgrounds 2020 Sinead Moriarty Buy
95 Antarctica in British Children’s Literature 2020 Sinead Moriarty Buy
96 Sexuality in Literature for Children and Young Adults 2021 Sinead Moriarty Buy
97 Dust Off the Gold Medal 2021 Sinead Moriarty Buy
98 Poetics and Ethics of Anthropomorphism 2021 Sinead Moriarty Buy
99 The Figure of the Child in WWI American, British, and Canadian Children’s Literature 2022 Sinead Moriarty Buy
100 Youth Fiction and Trans Representation 2022 Sinead Moriarty Buy
101 Historical and Cultural Transformations of Russian Childhood 2022 Sinead Moriarty Buy
102 Creative Writing in Schools 2026 Sinead Moriarty Buy
103 African American Children in American Political Life 2026 Sinead Moriarty Buy

Children’s Literature and Culture is an academic book series that publishes scholarly studies of children’s and young adult literature. With over a hundred volumes published from 1996 to the present, the series covers topics from picturebook theory to representations of war, gender, race, and disability in youth fiction.

The volumes are written by various academic authors and editors, examining children’s literature through critical lenses including postcolonial theory, gender studies, and cultural history. Titles range from studies of individual authors (Diana Wynne Jones, Beatrix Potter) to broader surveys of topics like dystopian fiction for young adults and the Gothic in children’s literature.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many books are in the Children's Literature and Culture series?

There are 103 books in the Children’s Literature and Culture series, published between 1996 and 2026.

What is the first book in the Children's Literature and Culture series?

The first book in the Children’s Literature and Culture series is Regendering the School Story, published in 1996.

What topics does the Children's Literature and Culture series cover?

The series covers a wide range of scholarly topics related to children’s and young adult books, including representation, postcolonialism, gender, translation studies, and how literature for young people reflects cultural and historical change.

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