Literary Cultures and Twenty-First-Century Childhoods

Chapter 1 Introduction: Literary Cultures and Twenty-First-Century Childhoods

Chapter 2 Children’s Right to Participate: Insights from the Story of Malala

Chapter 3 The Wisdom of Getting Involved: Civic Engagement in Contemporary Egyptian Children’s Literature

Chapter 4 Bright Pasts, Brighter Futures: Biographies for Children in the Early Twenty-First Century

Chapter 5 “We Need Diverse Books”: Diversity, Activism, and Children’s Literature

Chapter 6 What Having Two Mommies Looks Like Now: Queer Picture Books in the Twenty-First Century

Chapter 7 Laughing Out Loud or Lost in the Woods? Tween Girl Identity in Picturebooks and Graphic Novels for Children

Chapter 9 Brazilian Childhood and Literature in the Age of Digital Technologies

Chapter 10 Animals in Children’s Development

Chapter 11 Examining Animal Bodies in War-Related Media for Children

Chapter 12 The Power and Potential: An Ecocritical Reading of Twenty-First-Century Childhood