… provides a social and literary overview of the field of Anglophone children's literature: its …
Emphasising how children's literature is embedded in the social life of children and adults, the …

This book provides a new critical methodology for the study of landscapes in children's literature.
Treating landscape as the integration of unchanging and irreducible physical elements, …

… approaches the child’s place in children’s literature from four thematic angles, and is divided
accordingly. the first group of essays reflects the fact that the field of children’s literature …

… example of how representations of spatiality function in children’s texts, where they afford
more … To situate our discussion of place and space in children’s literature, we draw upon three …

Editor’s Note: George Hillocks Jr. wrote this essay shortly before his death in 2014 in his role
as an advisor to a research project that included his former doctoral student, Carol D. Lee, …

… His students got to know the YA territory … line the branches of YA literature. They know the
territory, and that knowledge is an excellent foundation for them to pursue further study in YA …

… This change is recognized within the Guide, with subject entries for critical approaches to
children's literature and reviewing and reviewers, and individual entries for landmarks like this …

… territories, children’s literature is produced by those in power and thus reflects the
empowered view of the disempowered. However, unlike other disempowered groups that have …

… or approach children’s literature within or as an environmental education, and to how any
of this deserves a closer reading, interpretation and analysis in other parts of a life, be that at ‘…

… This study sought to understand, through the eyes of children, how the dimensions of the
territory can have implications for children’s development. The results showed that the …