Janice Bland is Professor Emerita of English Education, Nord University, Norway. She is editor-in-chief of the diamond open-access journal, Children's Literature in English Language Education.

This book introduces a framework for thinking differently about texts in ELT, encouraging practitioners to move away from simplified literature (or graded readers), and raises important questions about what counts as a complex or generative text, and to whom, and for what purposes… Bland’s edited volume is … an important body of work that reframes the goals for, and methodologies of, English language teaching.