Reviews 2011
Girl Reading Girl in Japan edited by Tomoko Aoyama and Barbara Hartley. Review by Mieke Desmet.
A Narrative Compass: Stories that Guide Women’s Lives edited by Betsy Hearne and Roberta Seelinger Trites. Review by Carol J. Singley.
Historical Dictionary of Children’s Literature by Emer O'Sullivan. Review by Imke Lichterfeld.
Children’s Fiction 1765-1808. John Carey; Margaret King Moore, Lady Mount Cashell; Henry Brooke edited by Anne Markey. Review by Clive Barnes.
Creating Magical Worlds. Otherness and Othering in Harry Potter by Marion Rana. Review by Sanna Lehtonen.
Telling Children’s Stories: Narrative Theory and Children’s Literature edited by Mike Cadden. Review by Yasmine Motawy.
Geschichte der Deutschen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. [The History of German Children’s Literature] 3rd Edition edited by Reiner Wild. Review by Luke Springman.
Suspended Animation: Children’s Picture Books and the Fairy Tale of Modernity by Nathalie op de Beeck. Review by Joseph T. Thomas, Jr.
New Directions in Picturebook Research edited by Teresa Colomer, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, and Cecilia Silva-Díaz. Review by Lies Wesseling.
The Children’s Book Business; Lessons from the Long Eighteenth Century by Lissa Paul. Review by Jacqueline Reid-Walsh.
Translating anthroponyms as exemplified by selected works of English children’s literature in their Polish versions by Anna Danuta Fornalczyk. Review by Melissa Garavini.
Girlhood. A Global History edited by Jennifer Helgren and Colleen A. Vasconcellos. Review by Helma Van Lierop.
The Place of Lewis Carroll in Children’s Literature by Jan Susina. Review by Elisabeth R. Gruner.
Selber denken macht schlau: Philosophieren mit Kindern und Jugendlichen. Anregungen für Schule und Elternhaus [Thinking makes you clever: Philosophy with children and young people. Suggestions for school and home] by Eva Zoller Morf. Review by Gillian Lathey.
Cheek by Jowl: Talks and Essays on How and Why Fantasy Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin. Review by Karyn Huenemann.
Die Geschichte vom Rotkäppchen. Ursprünge, Analysen, Parodien eines Märchens [History of Little Red Riding Hood. Origins, Analyses, Parodies of a Fairy Tale] by Hans Ritz. Review by Mieke Desmet.
Uncharted Depths. Descent Narratives in English and French Children’s Literature by Kiera Vaclavik. Review by Nicole Biagioli.
Representing the Holocaust in Children’s Literature, by Lydia Kokkola. Review by Clive Barnes.