Author: Vivian Yenika-Agbaw

Notes on Contributors x Introduction xvii Karen Coats, Deborah Stevenson, and Vivian Yenika-Agbaw Part I: Early Works 1 1 Juvenile Nonfiction before the Golden Age of Anglo-American Children”s Literature 3 Ivy Linton Stabell 2 The Beginnings of Fiction for Children 14 Claudia Nelson 3 Folklore in Children”s Literature 26 Debra Mitts-Smith 4 The Victorian Picturebook 39 Hannah Field 5 The Child-Centered Universe of Nineteenth-Century Children”s Nonfiction 58 Elizabeth Massa Hoiem Part II: Twentieth-Century Developments 71 6 Developments in Fiction for Children 73 Mary Jeanette Moran 7 Developments of Picturebooks 84 Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer 8 Walt Disney and the Fairy Tale 96 Paula T. Connolly 9 Stay Tuned: A Political History of Saturday Morning Cartoons 105 Peter C. Kunze 10 Live-Action Films for Children 118 Kathy Merlock Jackson 11 Break Beat and the New Auditory Avant-garde — for Children! (Or, That New-fangled Noise the Kids Are All Going On About) 129 Michael Heyman and Joseph T. Thomas, Jr. 12 Children”s Literature of the Anglophone Caribbean 144 Sujin Huggins Part III: Contemporary Trends and Texts 155 13 Children”s Information Books: Initiatives and Trends 157 Elizabeth Bush 14 Contemporary Trends in Fiction for Children 168 Thaddeus Andracki 15 Contemporary Poetry for Children: Toward Diversity, Complexity, and Innovation 179 Rachel Conrad 16 Picturebook Futures 193 Evelyn Arizpe and Emma Mc Gilp 17 Postmodern Fairy Tales 207 Cherie Allan 18 Theatre and Playwriting for Young Audiences 218 Nicole B. Adkins 19 The Portrayal of Girlhoods in Graphic Narratives for Children 232 Elizabeth Marshall 20 Playing Children”s Literature: Games in and the Gamification of Books for Kids 242 Gretchen Papazian 21 Digital Children”s Literature: Current Understandings and Future Directions 258 Dani Kachorsky Part IV: Ways of Reading 271 22 Critical Multiculturalism and Children”s Literature: Trends and Possibilities 273 Vivian Yenika-Agbaw 23 Cultural Diversity and Social Justice: Readings from the South 287 Macarena García González 24 Black Critical Theory in Children”s Literary Analysis: Why It Matters 299 Roberta Price Gardner 25 Critical Discourse Studies and the Scholarship of Children”s Literature 314 Rebecca Rogers and Doris Villarreal 26 Disability 330 Elizabeth A. Wheeler 27 Growing Up Together: Children”s Literature and Women”s Studies 341 Susan Larkin 28 Read, Write, Play, Review: Young Children”s Connected Reading Communities 352 Marianne Martens 29 Posthumanism 364 Zoe Jaques 30 Narrative Theory and Children”s Literature 376 Mike Cadden 31 Animal Studies 390 Rachel Falconer 32 Trauma Studies 403 Adrienne Kertzer 33 Censorship and Children”s Literature 414 Emily J.M. Knox 34 The Commodification, “Diversification, ” and Walliams-fication of the British Children”s Book Market 426 Melanie Ramdarshan Bold Index 441