children & YA
-
A Muppet History of the Book
At the beginning of special collections instruction sessions, I sometimes ask students what books are meaningful to them and why. If there’s time, I might share The Monster at the End…
-
Lauren B. Hewes and Kayla Haveles Hopper, eds., Radiant with Color & Art
“What’s the use of an exhibition catalog,” Alice might well have said to herself, “if it doesn’t have beautiful pictures and brilliant essays?” This catalog of the McLoughlin Brothers’ more…
-
Sara L. Schwebel (ed.) and Scott O’Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins: The Complete Readers Edition
It’s surprising that one of the most important children’s books of the twentieth century has only recently started receiving the critical attention it deserves. Sara L. Schwebel’s excellent Complete Readers…
-
Beverly Lyon Clark. The Afterlife of Little Women
Beverly Lyon Clark. The Afterlife of “Little Women.” Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. x, 271p., ill. ISBN 9781421415581. US $44.95. In this thoroughly researched and well-documented text, Clark explores…
-
Frank Felsenstein and James J. Connolly. What Middletown Read: Print Culture in a Small American City
Frank Felsenstein and James J. Connolly. What Middletown Read: Print Culture in a Small American City. Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2015. 320p., ill. ISBN 9781625341419. US $28.95. In What…
-
Helen A. Fairlie, Revaluing British Boys’ Story Papers, 1918-1939
Helen A. Fairlie, Revaluing British Boys’ Story Papers, 1918-1939. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. x, 214 p. ill. ISBN 9781137293053. £50.00 (hardcover). Helen Fairlie’s Revaluing British Boys’ Story Papers, 1918-1939 sets…
-
Marian Thèrése Keyes and Áine McGillicuddy, eds. Politics and Ideology in Children’s Literature
Marian Thèrése Keyes and Áine McGillicuddy, eds. Politics and Ideology in Children’s Literature. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2014. 191 p. ISBN 9781846825262. €49.50 (hardback). Children’s literature became an established area…
-
Jesús A. Martínez Martín, ed. Historia de la edición en España 1939-1975
Jesús A. Martínez Martín (ed.). Historia de la edición en España 1939-1975. Madrid: Marcial Pons, 2015. 997p., ill. ISBN 9788415963554. EUR 42.00 (hardback). Historia de la edición en España 1939-1975…