Children's Literature
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Neither Fish Nor Foul: The Cleansing Effects on Bad Boys of Time Underwater. Kate Carnell Watt, University of California, Riverside
Morally reconstructive periods underwater, accompanied by temporary de-evolution, supernatural supervision, and the eventual reward of temporal power, recur in literature written for and about children. The figure of the morally ambivalent boy is particularly subject to such watery lessons.
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There and Back Again: The Journey of Samwise Gamgee as the Child of Fantasy. Lauren Bond, California State University, Fullerton
Samwise Gamgee’s journey from childhood to adulthood throughout J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy positions him as the true ‘child of fantasy,’ who—intrigued by the wonders of fairies and elves—constructs his adult identity via a fantasy world.
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Children's Literature/Children's Books: Editing, Marketing and Selling Children's Literature. Sara M. Hines, University of Edinburgh
This paper assesses the field of children's literature from the sometimes conflicting positions of the marketplace and academia. It examines current publishing, marketing, and selling techniques and then analyzes the gap between the studies of children’s literature and book history.
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