While most scholars who study children's books are pre-occupied with the child characters
and adult mediators, Vanessa Joosen re-positions the lens to focus on the under-explored …

It is estimated that a third of children know someone living with dementia, and there are now
many picturebooks for young children that help to explain the changes dementia can bring …

Contributions by Gökçe Elif Baykal, Lincoln Geraghty, Verónica Gottau, Vanessa Joosen,
Sung-Ae Lee, Cecilia Lindgren, Mayako Murai, Emily Murphy, Mariano Narodowski …

Diverging definitions and uses of concepts such as “ageism,”“aetonormativity,”“adultism,”
and “childism” point at the relative separateness of the fields of childhood studies, age …

When gender is brought into concerns about older people, the emphasis often lies on
stereotypes connected to older women, and few comparative studies have been conducted …

This article reflects on insights gained from a larger study that explored how a class of ten-
and eleven-year-olds read and responded to David Almond's hybrid novel, My Name is …

The COVID-19 pandemic brought into sharp focus questions about care, dependence and
relationality. It highlighted, in particular, the generational relationship as something that is …

In this contribution, we explore something rarely reported on in research on children's
literature: how an old children's book is re-appropriated and altered in ongoing teaching …

In recent decades, age studies has started to emerge as a new approach to study children's
literature. This book builds on that scholarship but also significantly extends it by exploring …

While critics so often and understandably specialise in literature aimed at a particular age
group or audience, valuable synergies can emerge when we examine children's, young …