Handbook of Research on Children's and Young Adult Literature

<p>This landmark volume is the first to bring together leading scholarship on children’s and young adult literature from three intersecting disciplines: Education English and Library and Information Science. Distinguished by its multidisciplinary approach it describes and analyzes the different aspects of literary reading texts and contexts to illuminate how the book is transformed within and across different academic figurations of reading and interpreting children’s literature.</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Part one considers perspectives on readers and reading literature in home school library and community settings.</li> <p> </p> <li>Part two introduces analytic frames for studying young adult novels picturebooks indigenous literature graphic novels and other genres. Chapters include commentary on literary experiences and creative production from renowned authors and illustrators. </li> <p> </p> <li>Part three focuses on the social contexts of literary study with chapters on censorship awards marketing and literary museums. </li> </ul><p>The singular contribution of this <em>Handbook </em>is to lay the groundwork for colleagues across disciplines to redraw the map of their separately figured worlds thus to enlarge the scope of scholarship and dialogue as well as push ahead into uncharted territory. </p>