The Children’s Literature and Culture series is dedicated to promoting original research in children’s literature, children’s culture, and child- hood studies. We use the term ‘children’ in the broadest sense, spanning from earliest childhood up through adolescence. The already capacious term ‘culture’ encompasses media (radio, film, television, video games, blogs, websites, social networking sites), material culture (toys, games, products), acculturation (processes of socialization), and of course liter- ature, including all types of crossover works. Since children’s literature is defined by its audience, this series seeks to foster scholarship on the full range of children’s literature’s many genres and subgenres: fairy tales, folk tales, comics, graphic novels, picture books, novels, poetry, didactic tales, nonsense, fantasy, realism, mystery, horror, fan fiction, and others.
Founded by Jack Zipes in 1994, Routledge’s Children’s Literature and Culture is the longest-running series devoted to the study of children’s literature and culture from a national and international perspective. From 2011, expanding its focus to include childhood studies, the series also seeks to explore the legal, historical, and philosophical conditions of different childhoods.