This handbook provides a comprehensive review of the research and practice of engaging with children's and young adult literature in education. Drawing across scholarship focused on genre, creation, and utilization of children's literature, it provides a unique perspective on the role that children's literature can play in educational spaces from age 2 to 18, and from picture books to YA literature.
The volume is divided into two main sections: first, a review of the history of children's literature and its application in education; and second, a discussion of methodological approaches for studying children's literature in educating young people - particularly in relation to critical literacy and multimodality. The chapters cover a range of topics including diversity, intersectionality, transactional theory, representation, trauma-informed pedagogy, anti-racism, immigration, folk and fairy tales and more.
Written by leading scholars based in Australia, the US, Norway, South Korea, and the UK, the handbook represents the global use of children's literature in schools, revealing connections across international contexts while also honoring the differences in how literature is conceptualized and utilized across the world.
| ISBN: | 9781350383098 |
| Publication date: | 19th February 2026 |
| Author: | Katrina Bartow Jacobs, Patricia A Crawford |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 392 pages |
| Series: | Bloomsbury Handbooks |
| Genres: |
Educational: Language, literature and literacy Children’s and teenage literature studies: general |
This handbook provides a comprehensive review of the research and practice of engaging with children's and young adult literature in education. Drawing across scholarship focused on genre, creation, and utilization of children's literature, it provides a unique perspective on the role that children's literature can play in educational spaces from age 2 to 18, and from picture books to YA literature.
The volume is divided into two main sections: first, a review of the history of children's literature and its application in education; and second, a discussion of methodological approaches for studying children's literature in educating young people - particularly in relation to critical literacy and multimodality. The chapters cover a range of topics including diversity, intersectionality, transactional theory, representation, trauma-informed pedagogy, anti-racism, immigration, folk and fairy tales and more.
Written by leading scholars based in Australia, the US, Norway, South Korea, and the UK, the handbook represents the global use of children's literature in schools, revealing connections across international contexts while also honoring the differences in how literature is conceptualized and utilized across the world.
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Children's and Young Adult Literature in Education features in the following genres: Educational: Language, literature and literacy, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Children's and Young Adult Literature in Education is available in Hardback
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Children's and Young Adult Literature in Education was written by Katrina Bartow Jacobs, Patricia A Crawford and published by Bloomsbury Academic an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Children's and Young Adult Literature in Education has 392 pages
Yes it is part of Bloomsbury Handbooks series
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