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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. Part one considers perspectives on readers and reading literature in home, school, library, and community settings. 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. Part three focuses on the social contexts of literary study, with chapters on censorship, awards, marketing, and literary museums. The singular contribution of this Handbook 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. BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- EDITORIAL BOARD -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Part 1 THE READER -- 1 Children Reading at Home: An Historical Overview -- 2 Questioning the Value of Literacy: A Phenomenology of Speaking and Reading in Children -- 3 The Book as Home? It All Depends -- 4 Reading Literature in Elementary Classrooms -- 5 Readers, Texts, and Contexts in the Middle: Re-imagining Literature Education for Young Adolescents -- 6 Reading Literature in Secondary School: Disciplinary Discourses in Global Times -- 7 Imagining a Writer's Life: Extending the Connection between Readers and Books -- 8 Teaching Latina/o Children's Literature in Multicultural Contexts: Theoretical and Pedagogical Possibilities -- 9 School Libraries and the Transformation of Readers and Reading -- 10 Public Libraries in the Lives of Young Readers: Past, Present, and Future -- 11 Becoming Readers of Literature with LGBT Themes: In and Out of Classrooms -- 12 Immigrant Students as Cosmopolitan Intellectuals -- Part 2 THE BOOK -- 13 History of Children's and Young Adult Literature -- 14 Dime Novels and Series Books -- 15 Folklore in Children's Literature: Contents and Discontents -- 16 African American Children's Literature: Researching Its Development, Exploring Its Voices -- 17 The Art of the Picturebook -- 18 Comics and Graphic Novels -- 19 A Burgeoning Field or a Sorry State: U.S. Poetry for Children, 1800-Present -- 20 Nonfiction Literature for Children: Old Assumptions and New Directions -- 21 Genre as Nexus: The Novel for Children and Young Adults -- 22 Young Adult Literature: Growing Up, In Theory -- 23 Reading Indigeneity: The Ethics of Interpretation and Representation -- 24 Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Children's Literature, and the Case of Jeff Smith -- 25 Ideology and Children's Books -- 26 The Author's Perspective.
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