Literary Cultures and Twenty-First-Century Childhoods

Nathalie op de Beeck is the author of Suspended Animation: Children’s PictureBooks and the Fairy Tale of Modernity (2010) and co-creator of Little Machinery:A Critical Facsimile Edition (2009). Her work appears in The Oxford Handbook ofChildren’s Literature (2011), The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks (2017),and journals including CLAQ and CLE. She is Associate Professor of English atPacific Lutheran University, USA.

• Table of Contents  Introduction: Twenty-First Century Literary Cultures and ChildhoodsNathalie op de Beeck I. Children’s Rights and Role Models  Children’s Right to Participate: Insights from the Story of MalalaJonathan Todres The Wisdom of Getting Involved: Civic Engagement in Contemporary Egyptian Children’s LiteratureYasmine Motawy Bright Pasts, Brighter Futures: Biographies for Children in the Early Twenty-First CenturyClémentine Beauvais II. Social Justice and Diversity in Literature for Young Readers “We Need Diverse Books”: Diversity, Activism, and Children’s LiteratureSarah Park Dahlen  What Having Two Mommies Looks Like Now: Queer Picture Books in the Twenty-First CenturyDerritt Mason III. Representing Youth, Claiming Identity, and Exercising Agency  Laughing Out Loud or Lost in the Woods? Tween Girl Identity in Picturebooks and Graphic Novels for Children Nina Christensen “Ganesha Is My Best Friend”: Homological Boyhood in Hindi Mythological Animated FilmsAnuja Madan Brazilian Childhood and Literature in the Age of Digital TechnologiesEdgar Roberto Kirchof  IV. Coming of Age in the Anthropocene Animals in Children’s Development: A Roadmap for the Twenty-First CenturyGail F. Melson  Examining Animal Bodies in War-Related Media for ChildrenAmy Ratelle  The Power and Potential: An Ecocritical Reading of Twenty-First Century ChildhoodAlice Curry V. Contributors Part of a Palgrave Book Series