Readings

All readings are either on reserve or available as electronic books through the Mina Rees library.

Michelle Abate and Kenneth Kidd, eds. Over the Rainbow: Queer Children and Young Adult Literature. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-472-07146-3.

Michelle Anne Abate. Raising Your Kids Right: Children’s Literature and American Political Conservatism. New Brunswick, New Jersey and London: Rutgers University Press, 2010. ISBN: 978-0-8135-4798-5. [Online resource through the Mina Rees Library].

Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Illustrated by Ellen Forney. New York: Little, Brown, 2009. ISBN: 978-0316013697.

Balaka Basu, Katherine R. Broad and Carrie Hintz, eds. Contemporary Young Adult Dystopias: Brave New Teenagers. New York: Routledge, 2013. ISBN: 978-1138921924.

Robin Bernstein, Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood and Race from Slavery to Civil Rights. New York: New York University Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0814787083.

Clare Bradford, Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children’s Literature. Waterloo, Ont: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-0889205079.

Ann Gonzalez, Resistance and Survival: Children’s Narrative from Central America and the Caribbean. Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, 2009. ISBN: 978-0816528240.

Marah Gubar, Artful Dodgers: Reconceiving the Golden Age of Children’s Literature. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN; 978-0199756742. [Online resource through the Mina Rees Library].

Kenneth Kidd, Freud in Oz: At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children’s Literature. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0816675838. [Online resource through the Mina Rees Library].

Michelle Martin, Brown Gold: Milestones of African American Children’s Picture Books, 1845-2002. New York: Routledge, 2004. ISBN: 0415938570.

Mickenberg, Julia L. Learning from the Left: Children’s Literature, The Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN: 978-0195152814. [Online resource through the Mina Rees Library].

Jacqueline Rose, The Case of Peter Pan; Or, The Impossibility of Children’s Fiction. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992. ISBN: 978-0812214352.

Joseph Thomas, Poetry’s Playground: The Culture of Contemporary American Children’s Poetry. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-0814332962.

Anastasia Ulanowicz, Second-Generation Memory and Contemporary Children’s Literature: Ghost Images. New York: Routledge, 2013. ISBN: 978-0415628259.

E. B. White, Charlotte’s Web. New York: Harper Collins, 2012. ISBN: 978-0064400558.