Children’s Literature in Place

Željka Flegar is an Associate Professor at the University of Osijek in Croatia, where she teaches and does research in English language and literature, media, and drama. She has published articles on the linguistic and narrative aspects of children’s literature and culture, adaptations, and popular media. She co-edited, with Ivana Moritz, the collection Children and Languages Today: First and Second Language Literacy Development (2019). Since 2020, Flegar has been a member of the editorial board of Libri & Liberi: Journal of Research on Children’s Literature and Culture. She was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Longwood University, USA (2021).Jennifer M. Miskec is a Professor of English at Longwood University in Virginia, USA, where she co-directs the Children’s Literature English Major Concentration and Children’s Literature Minor and teaches several children’s and young adult literature and culture courses. Miskec also leads children’s culture study abroad programs to Croatia and Serbia and to South Africa. Miskec’s scholarly work is primarily centered on studies of contemporary American children’s and YA literature. Miskec co-edited, with Annette Wannamaker, a collection of essays on Early Readers, The Early Reader in Children’s Literature and Culture: Theorizing Books for Beginning Readers (Routledge, 2016). She was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Zagreb, Croatia (2019) and a Fulbright Specialist at Simon Fraser University, Canada (2022).

• IntroductionSection I: Place, Space, and Identity1. "Xanadu Hidden in the Heart of Bootle": Place and Foreignness in The Unforgotten CoatBen Screech2. Skiing and Being Swedish: Taking a Cold Look at Winter PicturebooksBjörn Sundmark3. Cows on the Cover: Dairy Queen and Regional LiteratureRhonda Brock-Servais4. John Green’s Peopled Places and Abandoned Spaces Michael J. MartinSection II: Aesthetics of Place5. Confronting "Un-London": Charlie Fletcher’s Stoneheart Trilogy and the Rejection of Nostalgic LandscapesHeather K. Cyr6. Room to Imagine? Authoritative Architecture in J. K. Rowling’s Wizarding WorldCatherine Olver7. A Sleuthing Place: Child Detectives and Their OfficesChris McGeeSection III: (Dis)Placement and Mobility8. "Girl. Wherever the F*ck You Want": The Contingent Mobilities of Literary AdolescenceCaroline Hamilton-McKenna9. Whirlpooling Feminist Rage: Gang Rape-Revenge in Foul is Fair and The Nowhere GirlsAmber Moore10. A Town Should Have Twenty-Five People: Harriet M. Welsch’s Small-Town New York CityEmma K. McNamara11. How to Develop a Children’s Culture Study Abroad Program in Three Easy StepsJennifer M. MiskecSection IV: Place Attachment12. Making Home: The Queer Ecological Possibilities of Children’s PicturebooksKathleen Forrester13. Maralinga – The Aṉangu Story: Country, Multimodality, and Living SpaceMelanie Duckworth14. Re-placing Indigenous Land and Children Within the Anthropocene: Carole Lindstroms’s We Are Water ProtectorsHatice Bay15. Beyond the Eco-Warrior Child in Children’s LiteratureMeghan M. SweeneySection V: Spectrality and Memory16. Dearly Departed: The Arrival’s Spectral RefugeeKatharine Slater17. Someone’s Missing: The Spectral Landscape of Martial Law in Selected Children’s Picturebooks from the PhilippinesJose Monfred C. Sy18. Charlotte Temple, a Literary Landmark, and Nineteenth-Century Notions of AdolescenceIvy Linton StabellSection VI: Placing Readers19. Space, Place, and Readers: Understanding Setting as "Placing-in-Process"Margaret Mackey20. Child and Teen Demographics in Movement through the Fantastic Place of LondonMadison McLeod21. Where Does Alice Come from? Places in Translation and AdaptationSmiljana Narančić Kovač22. Canon Out of Place: Centering Lived Realities in Neurodivergent Middle Grade LiteratureJennifer SlagusSection VII: Virtual and Archival Spaces23. "The Ickabog Illustration Competition": Showcasing Reader Responses and a Transnational Poetics of PlaceŽeljka Flegar24. Places and Spaces of/for Reading in Children’s Literature: From Mysterious Dusty Libraries to Cities Made of BooksMaretta Sidiropoulou25. Pilgrimages in the First Season of The Flying House Anime Series Lance Weldy26. An All-White World? The Cartography We Create in Adaptations for Young People Elizabeth Garri