The Routledge Companion to International Children's Literature

Introduction: literary theory around the world

Section 1: Theoretical issues in International Children's Literature

Magical Realism in Latin American children's literature

The unhu literary gaze: An African-based mode of reading Zimbabwean children's texts.

Grounds for 'rights reading' practices

Egyptian Children's Literature: Ideology & Politics

Animist materialism in YA dystopian fiction by Indigenous authors: an ecocritical reading

The Construction of a Modern Child and a Chinese National Character: Translating Alice

The Construction of a Modern Child and a Chinese National Character: Translating Alice

5. Politics and ethics in Chinese texts for the young: the Confucian tradition

Violence and Death in Children's and Young People's Literature

Section 2: Historical contexts and national identity

Indigenous and juvenile: when books from villages arrive at bookstores

The British Empire and Indian Nationalism in Rabindranath Tagore's Historical Poems and The Land of Card

Reshaping perceptions of national progress through the representation of marginalized cultural realities in Caribbean Children's Stories

postcolonialism and neo-colonialism (x1)

The Paradoxical Negotiation of Coloniality and Postcoloniality in African Children's Literature with Particular Reference to Zimbabwe

'Imperial gospel': the Afrikaans children's Bible and the dawn of Afrikaner civil religion in South Africa

Children's Literature in the GCC Arab States

Section 3: Cross-cultural encounters

Korean Picture Books, Imagology, and Narrative Modalities

13. Effects of globalization on development of subjectivity in YA fiction

Ethno-racial relations and Brazilian- African children's literature

Notions of self and other among children of diasporic communities

Section 4: Children's texts and cultural forms

Contemporary poetry for children and youth in Brazil

Every Which Way: Direction and Narrative Time in Kaslan Geddan and the Flash Series

14. Old/New Media for Muslim Children: The Forest, The Trees, and The Mushrooms

Brazilian Children's Literature and Booklet Literature: approximations and distances

New Media Chinese Children's Literature

Brazilian Children's Literature in the Age of Digital Culture

Children's book illustration in Colombia: notes for a history

Section 5: Origins - Folktale and Traditional Story

Folktales as signposts of cultural heritage

Breaking and Making of Cross-Species Friendships in the Pancantantra

Bal Hanuman and the Politics of Being a Superhero

Animal Fiction in Chinese Children's Literature

The Centrality of Hawaiian Mythology in Three Genres of Hawai?i's Contemporary Folk Literature for Children

From Orality to Print: Construction of Nso Identity in Folk Tales.

Section 6: Picture Books

Little Feminists: The Granddaughters of Scheherazade

Japanese Picturebooks

"Light like a Bird, Not a Feather": Science Picture Books from China and the USA

Illustrated books in Thailand: From Mana-Manee to the 80 Picture Books Project

Iranian Picturebooks

Multimodal Children's Books in Turkey: Illustrated Books and Picturebooks

Early childhood literature in Latin America: Picturebooks for children from 0 to 3 years

Section 7: Global children's literatures

Recent Trends and Themes in Chinese Children's Fiction

The Moribito Series and its relation to trends in Japanese Children's Literature

Recent Trends and Themes in Malaysian Children's Fiction

Brazilian Literature for young people: between the reader and the market

Development of Literature for Children and Young People in Chile

Children?s and young adult literature in Guatemala: a mirror turned over the wall

Breaking Illusions: Contradictory Representations of African Childhood

Recent developments in South Africa's English literature for the young

Recent YA Fiction in Iran