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Children's books seek to assist children to understand themselves and their world. Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children's Literature demonstrates how settler-society texts position child readers as citizens of postcolonial nations, how they represent the colonial past to modern readers, what they propose about race relations, and how they conceptualize systems of power and government. Clare Bradford focuses on texts produced since 1980 in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand and includes picture books, novels, and films by Indigenous and non-Indigenous publishers and producers. From extensive readings, the author focuses on key works to produce a thorough analysis rather than a survey. Unsettling Narratives opens up an area of scholarship and discussion-the use of postcolonial theories-relatively new to the field of children's literature and demonstrates that many texts recycle the colonial discourses naturalized within mainstream cultures.

Children's literature. Juvenile literature --- Sociology of literature --- imperialisme --- ideologie --- politiek --- jeugdliteratuur --- kolonialisme --- Children's literature --- Children --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Native peoples in literature --- Indigenous peoples in literature. --- Littérature de jeunesse --- Littérature pour la jeunesse --- Enfants --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature --- Littérature postcoloniale. --- Autochtones dans la littérature --- Autochtones --- History and criticism --- Books and reading --- Political aspects --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire et critique. --- Livres et lecture --- Aspect politique --- Dans la littérature. --- Autochtones dans la littérature. --- Children's literature. --- Indigenes Volk. --- Kinderliteratur. --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- Native peoples in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature. --- Postkoloniale Literatur. --- TRAVEL --- Books and reading. --- History and criticism. --- Political aspects. --- Livres et lecture. --- General. --- Aspect politique. --- Special Interest --- Literary. --- Commonwealth. --- Littérature de jeunesse --- Littérature pour la jeunesse --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature --- Littérature postcoloniale. --- Autochtones dans la littérature --- Dans la littérature.

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Children grow up surrounded by stories, motifs, characters and themes which respond to the Middle Ages. The Middle Ages in Children's Literature explores the use and abuse of the medieval in children's literature, the many forms in which it appears, and its enduring capacity to enchant the young.

Children in literature --- Enfants --- Littérature médiévale.

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"This book focuses on girls and girlhoods, texts for and about girls, and the cultural contexts that shape girls' experience. It brings together scholars from girls' studies and children's literature, fields that have traditionally conducted their research separately, and the collaboration showcases the breadth and complexity of girl-related studies. Contributors from disciplines such as sociology, literature, education, and gender studies combine these disciplinary approaches in novel ways with insights from international studies, postcolonial studies, game studies, and other fields. Several of the authors engage in activist and policy-development work around girls who experience poverty and marginalization. Each essay is concerned in one way or another with the politics of girlhood as they manifest in national and cultural contexts, in the everyday practices of girls, and in textual ideologies and agendas. In contemporary Western societies girls and girlhood function to some degree as markers of cultural reproduction and change. The essays in this book proceed from the assumption that girls are active participants in the production of texts and cultural forms; they offer accounts of the diversity of girls' experience and complex significances of texts by, for, and about girls." -- Publisher's description.

Popular culture in literature --- Politics in literature --- Girls in popular culture --- Girls in literature --- Girls --- Popular culture --- Children --- Females --- Young women --- Children's literature. Juvenile literature --- Sociology of literature --- populaire cultuur --- literatuurkritiek --- politiek --- gender --- meisjes --- jeugdliteratuur --- Feminism --- Movies --- Discourse analysis --- Video games --- Indigenous population --- International --- Children's literature --- Literature --- Literary criticism --- Theory --- Images of women --- Féminité --- Book

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Through a comparison of Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand texts published between 1840 and 1940, From Colonial to Modern develops a new history of colonial girlhoods revealing how girlhood in each of these emerging nations reflects a unique political, social, and cultural context. Print culture was central to the definition, and redefinition, of colonial girlhood during this period of rapid change. Models of girlhood are shared between settler colonies and contain many similar attitudes towards family, the natural world, education, employment, modernity, and race, yet, as the authors argue, these texts also reveal different attitudes that emerged out of distinct colonial experiences. Unlike the imperial model representing the British ideal, the transnational girl is an adaptation of British imperial femininity and holds, for example, a unique perception of Indigenous culture and imperialism. Drawing on fiction, girls' magazines, and school magazine, the authors shine a light on neglected corners of the literary histories of these three nations and strengthen our knowledge of femininity in white settler colonies.

Children's literature, Canadian --- Children's literature, New Zealand --- Children's literature, Australian --- Australian children's literature --- Australian literature --- New Zealand children's literature --- New Zealand literature --- Canadian children's literature --- Canadian literature --- History and criticism.