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Want to make your PhD better? Hang out with an animal
Anna Savoie is a final year PhD student at the Children’s Literature Centre in Cambridge. She originally shared this post on November 28, 2017 If you go around asking people in academia for things that...
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Movie Review Month: The Nutcracker and Four Realms
Madeleine Hunter is a third-year PhD candidate who studies adaptation in contemporary children’s media and is currently working on a chapter dedicated to what exactly Disney thinks its up to in this...
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Movie Review Month:A Disability Studies Reading of Fantastic Beasts: The...
Anna Purkiss is a PhD student at the Centre for Research in Children’s Literature at Cambridge, researching young readers’ responses to representations of disability in contemporary children’s fiction....
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Movie Review Month: Mary Poppins Returns to All of Us
Maria Nikolajeva is a Professor of Children’s Literature and Head of the Centre for Research in Children’s Literature at Cambridge. She likes to combine her academic pursuits with her hobbies, such as...
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Movie Review Month: “In your universe, there is only one Spider-Man. But...
Victoria Mullins is a current PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Research in Children’s Literature. Her research is focused on exploring the relationship between Disney animation...
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Children’s audio dramas and their popularity in Germany
Carla Plieth is a current MPhil student at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Research in Children’s Literature. She comes from a background of English and German literatures and linguistics, and...
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Writing is Coming….. I’m going to need some tea with that
Nic Hilton is a PhD student at the Centre for Research in Children’s Literature at Cambridge. Her research is on maturation and the works of Patrick Ness. She finds that tea fixes everything, but the...
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The Death of Comics?
Emma Reay is a second year PhD student. Her research is on video games! This week Laurence Grove led us through the fascinating history of comic book reception, illustrating how the age of their...
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LGBT History Month in Children’s Literature
Gabriel Duckels completed the MPhil in Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature at Cambridge in Summer 2018, handing in a thesis exploring the resonance of HIV/AIDS in contemporary LGBT adolescent...
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Connecting generations through humour: some musings on Oliver Jeffers’...
Emma Joy Reay and Michelle Anya Anjirbag are second year PhD students who don’t study picturebooks, but were really happy to rediscover them through CRCLC Reading Group. Earlier in Lent term, the...
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Gabriel Duckels completed the MPhil in Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature at Cambridge in Summer 2018. He has been the Library Assistant at Homerton College Library since January 2017 and a...
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A Grinch’s view of World Book Day
Karen Bentall has worked in school and public libraries in the UK and US. She is currently taking study leave to pursue an MPhil at the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge.What kind...
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Nascent feminism and young adult literature: Happy International Women’s Day!
Oliva Marsh is a PGCE-Med student who works as a Secondary English teacher while completing her thesis for the Med. One of the unexpected but great joys of this academic year has been sharing what...
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The Power of Storytelling in Medical Environments for Children
Amy Ryder is a current MEd student at the Centre for Research in Children’s Literature at Cambridge. Prior to returning to study, she was the Community & Events Fundraiser for Wallace and Gromit’s...
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King Arthur and His Knights in Children’s Literature
Lisa Kazianka is a second-year PhD student at the Centre for Research in Children’s Literature at Cambridge, focusing on representations of masculinity in contemporary Arthurian fiction for young...
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Where’s the Action? – examining the delights of slower storytelling through...
Meriel Dhanowa is a current MPhil student at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Research in Children’s Literature. She comes from a background of French and German studies and is enjoying the...
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“Stay and play. Your beach as much as mine”: Enchanting Islands in Children’s...
Jodie Coates is a current MPhil student at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Research in Children’s Literature. She studied Education with English and Drama at the Faculty of Education as an...
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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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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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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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