LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature

Paper · Semantic Scholar

Children's literature has evolved dramatically from the nineteenth century to the present, transitioning from primarily didactic and moralistic texts to imaginative, entertaining, and socially reflective works. This paper traces the key phases of this development, highlighting the "Golden Age" of fantasy and adventure in the mid-to-late nineteenth century, the expansion of realism and series fiction in the twentieth…

Reference · Wikidata

literary prize from the American Library Association Rainbow Round Table for meritorious LGBTQ+ English-language literature

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

The Stonewall Book Award is a set of three literary awards that annually recognize "exceptional merit relating to the LGBTQIA+ experience" in English-language books, primarily focusing on those published in the U.S. As of 2026, the award categories are the Barbara Gittings Literature Award, Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award, and Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children's and Young Adult Literature Award. They are sponso…

Book · DOAB

This open access book explores the translation of children’s and Young Adult literature from a gendered perspective. By combining Translation Studies, Literary and Gender Studies, it provides original interdisciplinary analyses on a variety of literary and non-literary texts for children’s and Young Adults, translated from French, English and Spanish into Italian. It sheds new light on a research area that has so fa…

Full text · Open Library

Image · DPLA

This is a paper presented at the "The Image of the Outsider-III in Literature, Media, and Society, the 2013 Annual Conference of the Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery (SISSI)" in Colorado Springs, Colorado. 1 Scapegoat, Criminal and Hero: The lives of Young Offenders in Rose Marie Tapia’s Novel Roberto Down the Right Path Sara Wiercinski Wayne State University Estos chicos son seres humanos c…