Children's Literature and Culture Books in Order
Children's Literature and Culture contains 103 books, published between 1996 and 2026. The first book is Regendering the School Story (1996) and the newest is African American Children in American Political Life (2026). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 103
- Published
- 1996–2026
Children's Literature and Culture is an academic book series of scholarly studies in children's books, film and childhood. The run holds 103 volumes published between 1996 and 2026, from Regendering the School Story to African American Children in American Political Life, and it continues. Individual volumes take narrow subjects, among them The Case of Peter Rabbit, How Picturebooks Work, Empire's Children, The Poetics of Childhood and Brown Gold. Contributions come from many different scholars rather than a single author.
How many Children's Literature and Culture books are there?
Children's Literature and Culture has 103 books, released between 1996 and 2026.
Children's Literature and Culture Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 103 Children's Literature and Culture books in the order they were published, with the release year and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1Regendering the School Story1996 · confirmed 1/41996–1/4
- 2The Case of Peter Rabbit1998 · confirmed 1/41998–1/4
- 3Narrating Africa1999 · confirmed 1/41999–1/4
- 4How Picturebooks Work2000 · confirmed 1/42000–1/4
- 5Children's Films2000 · confirmed 1/42000–1/4
- 6Empire's Children2000 · confirmed 1/42000–1/4
- 7The Presence of the Past2000 · confirmed 1/42000–1/4
- 8The Poetics of Childhood2002 · confirmed 1/42002–1/4
- 9A Past Without Shadow2004 · confirmed 1/42004–1/4
- 10Brown Gold2004 · confirmed 1/42004–1/4
- 11The Making of the Modern Child2004 · confirmed 1/42004–1/4
- 12Ursula K. Le Guin Beyond Genre2004 · confirmed 1/42004–1/4
- 13Diana Wynne Jones2005 · confirmed 1/42005–1/4
- 14Youth of Darkest England2005 · confirmed 1/42005–1/4
- 15Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins2006 · confirmed 1/42006–1/4
- 16Voracious Children2006 · confirmed 1/42006–1/4
- 17National Character in South African English Children's Literature2006 · confirmed 1/42006–1/4
- 18A Critical History of French Children's Literature: Volume Two: 1830-Present2007 · confirmed 1/42007–1/4
- 19Representing Africa in Children's Literature2007 · confirmed 1/42007–1/4
- 20Once Upon a Time in a Different World: Issues and Ideas in African American Children’s Literature2007 · confirmed 1/42007–1/4
- 21The Outside Child, In and Out of the Book2007 · confirmed 1/42007–1/4
- 22A Critical History of French Children's Literature: Volume One: 1600-18302007 · confirmed 1/42007–1/4
- 23Death, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Adolescent Literature2008 · confirmed 1/42008–1/4
- 24From Nursery Rhymes to Nationhood2008 · confirmed 1/42008–1/4
- 25Enterprising Youth2008 · confirmed 1/42008–1/4
- 26The Crossover Novel2008 · confirmed 1/42008–1/4
- 27Crossover Fiction: Global and Historical Perspectives2008 · confirmed 1/42008–1/4
- 28Constructing Adolescence in Fantastic Realism2008 · confirmed 1/42008–1/4
- 29Critical Approaches to Food in Children's Literature2008 · confirmed 1/42008–1/4
- 30Neo-Imperialism in Children-s Literature About Africa2008 · confirmed 1/42008–1/4
- 31Shakespeare in Children's Literature2008 · confirmed 1/42008–1/4
- 32Representations of Technology in Science Fiction for Young People2009 · confirmed 1/42009–1/4
- 33Fundamental Concepts of Children's Literature Research2009 · confirmed 1/42009–1/4
- 34Translation Under State Control2009 · confirmed 1/42009–1/4
- 35Children's Fiction about 9/112009 · confirmed 1/42009–1/4
- 36Power, Voice and Subjectivity in Literature for Young Readers2009 · confirmed 1/42009–1/4
- 37Juvenile Literature and British Society, 1850-19502009 · confirmed 1/42009–1/4
- 38The Children's Book Business2010 · confirmed 1/42010–1/4
- 39New Directions in Picturebook Research2010 · confirmed 1/42010–1/4
- 40The Role of Translators in Children’s Literature2010 · confirmed 1/42010–1/4
- 41Humor in Contemporary Junior Literature2010 · confirmed 1/42010–1/4
- 42Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children's Literature2010 · confirmed 1/42010–1/4
- 43Irish Children's Literature and Culture2010 · confirmed 1/42010–1/4
- 44Reading the Adolescent Romance2010 · confirmed 1/42010–1/4
- 45Contemporary English-Language Indian Children's Literature2011 · confirmed 1/42011–1/4
- 46Beyond Pippi Longstocking2011 · confirmed 1/42011–1/4
- 47The Myth of Persephone in Girls' Fantasy Literature2011 · confirmed 1/42011–1/4
- 48Landscape in Children's Literature2012 · confirmed 1/42012–1/4
- 49Boys in Children's Literature and Popular Culture2012 · confirmed 1/42012–1/4
- 50Picturing the Wolf in Children's Literature2012 · confirmed 1/42012–1/4
- 51Textual Transformations in Children's Literature2013 · confirmed 1/42013–1/4
- 52Retelling Stories, Framing Culture2013 · confirmed 1/42013–1/4
- 53: Characterizations of African Americans, 1830-19002013 · confirmed 1/42013–1/4
- 54The Place of Lewis Carroll in Children's Literature2013 · confirmed 1/42013–1/4
- 55Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults2013 · confirmed 1/42013–1/4
- 56Rediscoveries in Children's Literature2013 · confirmed 1/42013–1/4
- 57Second-Generation Memory and Contemporary Children's Literature: Ghost Images2013 · confirmed 1/42013–1/4
- 58Sparing the Child: Grief and the Unspeakable in Youth Literature about Nazism and the Holocaust2013 · confirmed 1/42013–1/4
- 59Beatrix Potter2013 · confirmed 1/42013–1/4
- 60Transcending Boundaries2013 · confirmed 1/42013–1/4
- 61The Gothic in Children's Literature2013 · confirmed 1/42013–1/4
- 62Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults2013 · confirmed 1/42013–1/4
- 63Recycling Red Riding Hood2013 · confirmed 1/42013–1/4
- 64Representing the Holocaust in Children's Literature2013 · confirmed 1/42013–1/4
- 65Ways of Being Male2013 · confirmed 1/42013–1/4
- 66Inventing the Child2013 · confirmed 1/42013–1/4
- 67Childhood and Children's Books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-18002013 · confirmed 1/42013–1/4
- 68The Feminine Subject in Children's Literature2013 · confirmed 1/42013–1/4
- 69Pinocchio Goes Postmodern2014 · confirmed 1/42014–1/4
- 70Russell Hoban/Forty Years2014 · confirmed 1/42014–1/4
- 71Discourses of Postcolonialism in Contemporary British Children's Literature2014 · confirmed 1/42014–1/4
- 72Embodying Gender and Age in Speculative Fiction2015 · confirmed 1/42015–1/4
- 73The Early Reader in Children's Literature and Culture2015 · confirmed 1/42015–1/4
- 74Children's Literature and Culture of the First World War2015 · confirmed 1/42015–1/4
- 75The Big Smallness2016 · confirmed 1/42016–1/4
- 76The Future of the Nineteenth-Century Dream-Child: Fantasy, Dystopia, Cyberculture2016 · confirmed 1/42016–1/4
- 77Canon Constitution and Canon Change in Children's Literature2016 · confirmed 1/42016–1/4
- 78Fictions of Integration2017 · confirmed 1/42017–1/4
- 79New Directions in Children's Gothic2017 · confirmed 1/42017–1/4
- 80More Words about Pictures2017 · confirmed 1/42017–1/4
- 81Origin Narratives: The Stories We Tell Children About Immigration and International Adoption2017 · confirmed 1/42017–1/4
- 82The Beloved Does Not Bite2017 · confirmed 1/42017–1/4
- 83Affect, Emotion, and Children’s Literature2017 · confirmed 1/42017–1/4
- 84The Embodied Child: Readings in Children’s Literature and Culture2017 · confirmed 1/42017–1/4
- 85Childhood and Pethood in Literature and Culture2017 · confirmed 1/42017–1/4
- 86The Victorian Era in Twenty-First Century Children’s and Adolescent Literature and Culture2018 · confirmed 1/42018–1/4
- 87‘The Right Thing to Read’: A History of Australian Girl-Readers, 1910-19602018 · confirmed 1/42018–1/4
- 88Battling Girlhood2018 · confirmed 1/42018–1/4
- 89Cyborg Saints2019 · confirmed 1/42019–1/4
- 90Out of Reach2019 · confirmed 1/42019–1/4
- 91The Arctic in Literature for Children and Young Adults2020 · confirmed 1/42020–1/4
- 92Terror and Counter-Terror in Contemporary British Children’s Literature2020 · confirmed 1/42020–1/4
- 93ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature2020 · confirmed 1/42020–1/4
- 94Rulers of Literary Playgrounds2020 · confirmed 1/42020–1/4
- 95Antarctica in British Children’s Literature2020 · confirmed 1/42020–1/4
- 96Sexuality in Literature for Children and Young Adults2021 · confirmed 1/42021–1/4
- 97Dust Off the Gold Medal2021 · confirmed 1/42021–1/4
- 98Poetics and Ethics of Anthropomorphism2021 · confirmed 1/42021–1/4
- 99The Figure of the Child in WWI American, British, and Canadian Children’s Literature2022 · confirmed 1/42022–1/4
- 100Youth Fiction and Trans Representation2022 · confirmed 1/42022–1/4
- 101Historical and Cultural Transformations of Russian Childhood2022 · confirmed 1/42022–1/4
- 102Creative Writing in Schools2026 · confirmed 1/42026–1/4
- 103African American Children in American Political Life2026 · confirmed 1/42026–1/4
Where to start with Children's Literature and Culture
Start with Regendering the School Story (1996), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Children's Literature and Culture book?
African American Children in American Political Life (2026) is the newest Children's Literature and Culture book released so far.
Is there a new Children's Literature and Culture book coming?
No next Children's Literature and Culture book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Children's Literature and Culture at a glance
- Still running
- Children's Literature and Culture is still running, with a title published as recently as 2026.
- Release pace
- Children's Literature and Culture books have appeared more than one a year on average.
- Busiest decade
- Most Children's Literature and Culture books, 53 of 103, were published in the 2010s.
- Attribution
- Of the 103 titles, 3 are credited to Sandra L. Beckett, 3 to Anna Jackson, 3 to Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer and 2 to M. Daphne Kutzer. A further 97 writers are credited.