Student Statement Against Racism in the Centre and Faculty
This blog represents students at the Centre for Research in Children’s Literature within the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge. We have been appalled to read the testimony of our...
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‘Time and time again’: Tom’s Midnight Garden and the Temporality of Lockdown
A classic of children’s literature about time travel, Philippa Pearce’s Tom’s Midnight Garden is one of those books that has followed me around throughout my life. It was read to me as a child and...
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Storytelling and Covid-19
The current pandemic is a good time to remember a post by Amy Ryder last year on the power of storytelling in medical environments for children. Amy’s post is about how children (like adults!) use...
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My Lockdown Reading: Adolescence, AIDS, Covid-19 Dystopia and Picturebooks
When I began my doctoral project on the role of HIV/AIDS in young adult literature, I never expected to find myself researching one epidemic in the midst of a new one. As Cambridge emptied and the...
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A day in the life of an MPhil student (sort of)
I came to the MPhil after working as a UK state school English teacher for fifteen years (a career I came to late anyway) for the British military in Cyprus (a long story in itself). So, I had the...
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Spring Self-Care in Cambridge Based on the Five Love Languages
By Sapphire Demirsöz February in Cambridge is a magical month. Not only is it the most romantic city in which to spend Valentine’s Day but spring is already in the air, with idyllic blue skies and...
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How do children identify ideologies through storytime?
The new year is a time of reflection and prediction. As an educator of 620 children aged three to twelve, I grapple with how to prepare them for a tomorrow that seems likely to include climate change,...
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One More Adaption of Little Women: A Personal Review
*Note: this post contains spoilers about the film Little Women. “I am working on a novel, and it’s about my life, and my sisters’.” Greta Gerwig’s 2019 film version of this frequently adapted classic...
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Elsa is Queer: A Close Reading of Song Lyrics in Frozen and Frozen 2
Last week at a graduate conference an educator asked me whether I thought we should teach children about “homosexuality”. I was feeling generous, so I chose to interpret her question as a request for...
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Christmas Books at Homerton College Library
This guest post is written by Liz Osman. Liz is Fellow Librarian at Homerton College Library. It’s always enjoyable to put out a new exhibition; it’s a chance to show off the wonderful variety of...
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In Support of our Support Staff
Dear Friends, The Centre for Research in Children’s Literature at the University of Cambridge cannot operate without its administrators. Our research cluster depends on the energy, the experience, the...
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Cataloguing the Lealan Collection: Post #1
By James Brigden, Cataloguer at Homerton College Library. This blog post was first published on the Homerton College Library Weblog on 12th June 2019. A blog post of mine from last year, here,...
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New in the Library – Top Picks! Special Edition: Children’s Fiction
Originally published by Cambridge Faculty of Education Library blog on June 26th 2019. Take a look at our bumper edition of new Top Picks! with the theme of Children’s Fiction. Dawson, J. (2019)....
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Building New Communities in UK Children’s Literature Research: A Colloquium
Stella Pryce is a first year PhD student at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Research in Children’s Literature. I have heard time and time again that the first year of your PhD is a minefield...
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Empathy: a neutral force for potential good
Vera Veldhuizen is a third-year PhD at the Centre for Research in Children’s Literature at Cambridge, researching empathy, ethics, and justice in children’s war literature. Her current coping...
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What Makes a Successful Conference? Don’t Serve Rubbish Coffee
Emma Joy Reay is a second year PhD student at CRCLC. Her research is focused on video games but her feelings about coffee are entirely personal. What is the point of attending conferences? This is a...
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Madwomen in the Attic and Drama Queens: Considering Katharine Jones...
Gabriel Duckels completed the MPhil in Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature at Cambridge in Summer 2018 and will begin a PhD at the Centre in Michaelmas 2019. He has been the Library Assistant...
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From the Children’s Rare Book Collection: A ‘linen’ book
By James Brigden, Cataloguer at Homerton College Library. This blog post was first published on the Homerton College Library Weblog in April 2019. Since joining Homerton in 2013 I’ve catalogued some...
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Cats in Children’s Literature (aka, that longing for a pet when you can’t...
From the Vault: Beka Kimberley was an MPhil student in Children’s Literature in 2016-17. It is the greatest sadness of my adult life that I have not yet acquired a cat of my own. I didn’t have many...
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Book Dash – an Innovative Approach to Children’s Literacy
Chloe Rushovich is a current MPhil student at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Research in Children’s Literature. She previously studied English Language and Literature and Historical Studies...
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