The Bloomsbury Handbook of Children’s and Young Adult Literature in Education

This handbook is a benchmark contribution that invites readers to reconsider the important role of children’s and young adult literature in educational spaces. Addressing key topics in research and criticism and covering a host of genres such as comics, picturebooks, poetry, series fiction, and middle-grade novels, the essays combine novel conceptual approaches with close readings in a comprehensive manner. * Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Professor, University of Tübingen, Germany *
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Children’s and Young Adult Literature in Education is written by international scholars based in Australia, Canada, Egypt, Norway, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The diversity of authorship, and the breadth and depth of a range of topics about children’s literature, contribute to the uniqueness of this handbook. The handbook is edited by children’s literature scholars-Katrina Bartow Jacobs and Patricia A. Crawford-who are leading experts in this field. In a time when there is so much contention regarding children’s literature and censorship within schools, this handbook is timely and refreshing. For me, the strength of the handbook is the range of topics, such as inclusivity in children’s literature, global perspectives on children’s literature, multimodal nature of literature, and the immigrant experience in transnational literature. This handbook is an essential resource for educators and scholars seeking to navigate and contribute to the evolving discourse on children’s literature in an interconnected world. * Jan Lacina, Professor of Literacy & Bezos Family Foundation Endowed Chair for Early Childhood Education, Texas Christian University, USA *