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Article 24
By SusanThis blog post is late.Many apologies!There are many reasons for this, including dissertations, meetings, supervisions, job searches, job postings with incorrectly listed due dates (surprise!),...
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Do we still need to think?
by RichardIn my research into Young Adult fiction, I have chosen to appropriate the word ‘geek’ to describe a very technologically able individual in a world filled with digital insiders who...
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The Nature of the Beast
by RossWhen taking the time to think about environmental issues such as deforestation, overpopulation and climate change, one cannot help but feel a tad frustrated with the world in its many facets. As...
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Peter Hunt and David Rudd: A Masterclass
by ClementineOur friends at the Roehampton University's National Centre for Research in Children's Literature organised this talk the other day:unfortunately, nothing in the rest of this blogpost will...
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Who is the Grandmother in Grandmother’s Bag of Tales?
by Sabrina"Saat Bhai Champa"Grandmother’s Bag of Tales, popularly known in Bengali (Bangla) as Thakurmar Jhuli is easily one of the best loved collections of children’s stories across the Bengal*. No...
View ArticleA Part-time Perspective
It has reached half-term, and that means there is time for a brief break from the rigours of work, and an opportunity to both relax and spend some time dedicated solely to study. The life of a...
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Things I don't study.
I do not do not do not study fairy tales.People have their various mantras—their daily affirmations—and currently, the above one mine.Nope. No fairy tales over there for you.It is easy to get...
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In a parallel world, these graphic novels do exist.
When Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld came out in 2009, it probably wasn’t that common to have illustrations included in a novel that was obviously for teenagers. The publisher was afraid that the...
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3 + 1 "academic-ish" picturebooks...
Have you ever thought that the stories you read might be describing aspects of your life? Or that whatever you live is written in every book you get through? Well, ok, it is not a big deal, this...
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Places and Sites: Reading, Writing and Theorising Children's Poetry
by EveMorag Styles opened the poetry event with a retrospective that traced the evolution of interest in children’s poetry at Homerton College and the Faculty of Education. Through conferences,...
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A Book and a Boy in a Blog: Open Day Review
Today was the Children's Literature Open Day at Cambridge! A whole afternoon where we discuss what makes the MPhil, MEd, and PhD programs so great, get to hear from a fantastic author, AND have a...
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Fantasy, Photography, and the Fusion of Imagination and Reality
This week's blog is from first-year PhD candidate Siddharth Pandey.He is researching the interrelated ideas of making and crafted materiality in the fantasy genre. Even as I often miss my homeland –...
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Becoming Ms. Marvel: How Completing the PGCE-M Is Like a Superhero Origin Story
Jen Aggleton completed her PGCE-M in children's literature this year, and wonderfully agreed to write about the experience. She is a brilliant scholar, a lover of Russian literature, and a big fan of...
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Christmas and Children's Literature
This week's blog is brought to you by Sarah Hardstaff, one of our first-year PhD candidates.It is with some trepidation that I approach the idea of a festive-themed blog, full of joy and goodwill and...
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A Lot of Lessons from Tamora Pierce (and Just a Little Theory of Mind)
I don’t know about you guys, but my adolescent years were full of awkward encounters, sweaty palms, and not knowing who on Earth I wanted to be. Was I always going to be a super-shy dork with my nose...
View ArticleYou study children's literature? What?
This is the first post in our Studying Children's Literature series, which is where we will be asking a variety of our students to answer the tricky question of what studying children's literature...
View ArticleStudying the Children in Children’s Literature
This week's blog post is the second in our Studying Children's Literature series, which began last week with Dawn Sardella-Ayre's ideas about what it means to academically study children's literature....
View ArticleStudying the adult in children’s literature
This week's blog post is the third in our Studying Children's Literature series, which examines some of the different facets of what it means to academically study children's literature. Today's post...
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Dr Juliet Dusinberre to Discuss Beatrix Potter, February 24
Hear ye, hear ye! One and all are welcome to hear the great Dr Juliet Dusinberre (author of the influential Alice to the Lighthouse) to talk about how reading, writing and drawing offered Beatrix...
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