international research in children's literature journal

International Research in Children's Literature

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Children's Literature  is the annual publication of the Children's Literature Association and the MLA Division on Children's Literature.

Essays submitted to  Children's Literature  should be original work that is not under review elsewhere. We will consider translations of previously published work, if the material is seen as useful for our readers. Submissions are initially reviewed by the editor. Strong submission are then sent to two reviewers. Both author and reviewers remain anonymous to each other throughout the process.

We publish theoretically-based articles that demonstrate an awareness of key issues and criticism in children’s literature. We typically require at least one round of revision in response to reviewers' comments; often published essays go through two or more rounds of revision. Accepted essay are edited by the editor, the JHUP copy-editor, and a proof reader. Authors can expect a twelve to twenty-four month time frame from first submission to publication.

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Book Review Editor

Melissa Jenkins, Wake Forest University

Editorial Assistant

Lisa J. Radcliff,  Hollins University

Children’s Literature Advisory Board

Janice M. Alberghene,  Fitchburg State University    Ruth B. Bottigheimer,  SUNY at Stony Brook    Elisabeth Rose Gruner,  University of Richmond    Margaret Higonnet,  University of Connecticut    U. C. Knoepflmacher,  Princeton University    Roderick McGillis, University of Calgary

Children’s Literature Association Officers 2016–2017

Kenneth Kidd,  University of Florida,  President   Teya Rosenberg,  Texas State University,  Vice President/President-Elect   Annette Wannamaker,  Eastern Michigan University,  Past President   Gwen Athene Tarbox,  Western Michigan University,  Secretary   Roberta Seelinger Trites,  Illinois State University,  Treasurer

Children’s Literature Association Board of Directors

Philip Nel,  Kansas State University , 2014-2017   Sara Schwebel,  University of South Carolina , 2014-2017   Marah Gubar,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 2015-2018   Joe Sutliff Sanders,  Kansas State University , 2015-2018   Eric L. Tribunella,  University of Southern Mississippi , 2015-2018   Thomas Crisp,  Georgia State University , 2016-2019   Elisabeth Gruner,  University of Richmond , 2016-2019   Jackie Horne,  Independent Scholar , 2016-2019   Nathalie op de Beeck,  Pacific Lutheran University , 2016-2019

Send books for review to:   Melissa Jenkins     English Department     Wake Forest University     P.O. Box 7387     Winston Salem, NC 27109-7387     Email queries to: [email protected]      

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The   International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL)  is an international scholarly organization established over half a century ago to support and promote research in the field of children's literature. It includes members from over forty countries worldwide. 

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Children's Literature Collections

Approaches to Research

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• Pádraic Whyte 1

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• Presents the culmination of a two-year project on children’s books in Ireland, bringing together books published across five centuries
• Contributes to the critical resources available on children’s literature in collections, and specifically, in terms of collecting, librarianship, education, and children’s literature studies
• Offers a complex view of children’s literature collections by showing the varied approaches to researching collections.

Part of the book series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature (CRACL)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

Front matter, introduction.

• Pádraic Whyte, Keith O’Sullivan

History and Canonicity

Instruction with delight: evidence of children as readers in eighteenth-century ireland from the collections of dublin city library and archive.

• Máire Kennedy

Irish Children’s Books 1696‒1810: Importation, Exportation and the Beginnings of Irish Children’s Literature

• Anne Markey

The Great Famine in Irish History Textbooks, 1900–1971

• Ciara Boylan

The Development of the Irish Immigrant Experience in Irish-American Children’s Literature 1850‒1900

• Ciara Gallagher

Author and Text

Time and the child: the case of maria edgeworth’s early lessons.

• Aileen Douglas

Picking Grandmamma’s Pockets

• Jarlath Killeen, Marion Durnin

From Superstition to Enchantment: The Evolution of T. Crofton Croker’s Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland

• Ciara Ní Bhroin

‘Firing for the Hearth’: Storytelling, Landscape and Padraic Colum’s The Big Tree of Bunlahy

Pádraic Whyte

Ideals and Institutions

Kildare place society and the beginnings of formal education in ireland.

• Susan M. Parkes

Homespun Books: Creating an Irish National Children’s Literature

• Julie Anne Stevens

The Puffin Story Books Phenomenon: Popularization, Canonization and Fantasy, 1941‒1979

• Keith O’Sullivan

Picturing Possibilities in Children’s Book Collections

• Valerie Coghlan

Back Matter

This book provides scholars, both national and international, with a basis for advanced research in children’s literature in collections. Examining books for children published across five centuries, gathered from the collections in Dublin, this unique volume advances causes in collecting, librarianship, education, and children’s literature studies more generally. It facilitates processes of discovery and recovery that present various pathways for researchers with diverse interests in children’s books to engage with collections. From book histories, through bookselling, information on collectors, and histories of education to close text analyses, it is evident that there are various approaches to researching collections. In this volume, three dominant approaches emerge: history and canonicity, author and text, ideals and institutions. Through its focus on varied materials, from fiction to textbooks, this volume illuminates how cities can articulate a vision of children's literature through particular collections and institutional practices. 

• Children's literature
• Archival studies
• Collections
• Irish Studies
• children's literature
• English literature
• history of literature
• twentieth century

Keith O'Sullivan

Keith O’Sullivan is Lecturer in English at the Church of Ireland College of Education, Dublin, Ireland. He recently co-edited Children’s Literature and New York City (2014) and Irish Children’s Literature and Culture: New Perspectives on Contemporary Writing (2011). In 2013, he was co-recipient of a major Government of Ireland/Irish Research Council award to establish a National Collection of Children’s Books.

Pádraic Whyte is Assistant Professor of English and a director of the master’s programme in Children's Literature at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. He is author of Irish Childhoods (2011) and co-editor of Children's Literature and New York City (2014). He was co-recipient of a major Irish Research Council/Government of Ireland award to establish a National Collection of Children’s Book.

Book Title : Children's Literature Collections

Book Subtitle : Approaches to Research

Editors : Keith O'Sullivan, Pádraic Whyte

Series Title : Critical Approaches to Children's Literature

DOI : https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59757-1

Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan New York

eBook Packages : Literature, Cultural and Media Studies , Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

Copyright Information : The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

Hardcover ISBN : 978-1-137-60311-1 Published: 20 May 2017

Softcover ISBN : 978-1-349-93406-5 Published: 29 October 2020

eBook ISBN : 978-1-137-59757-1 Published: 19 May 2017

Series ISSN : 2753-0825

Series E-ISSN : 2753-0833

Edition Number : 1

Number of Pages : X, 261

Topics : Children's Literature , European Literature , British and Irish Literature , Twentieth-Century Literature , Literary History

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