Guides: ENG 251: Children's Literature: Violence

Violence in Children's Literature

C.S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia by Michelle Abate; Lance Weldy
ISBN: 9780230301252
Publication Date: 2012-11-01
Includes two relevant chapters: "Scapegoating and Collective Violence in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" and "War and the Liminal Space: Situating The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in the Twentieh Century Narrative of Trauma and Survival"
Re-Visioning Historical Fiction for Young Readers: The Past through Modern Eyes by Kim Wilson
ISBN: 9780415890076
Publication Date: 2011-06-15
Includes relevant chapter: "Memory and Power: Discourses on War in Historical Fiction for Young Readers"
Sisters, Schoolgirls, and Sleuths: Girls' Series Books in America by Carolyn Carpan
ISBN: 9780810857568
Publication Date: 2008-12-04
Includes relevant chapter: "The Secret of Nancy Drew and Her Sister Sleuths: Career Girls and World War II"
The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar
ISBN: 9780691114699
Publication Date: 2003-05-26
Includes relevant chapter: "Sex and Violence: The Hard Core of Fairy Tales"
Reflections of Change: Children's Literature since 1945 by Sandra L. Beckett
ISBN: 9780313301452
Publication Date: 1997-01-30
Includes relevant chapter: "An Awfully Big Adventure?: Representations of the Second World War in British Children's Books of the 1960s and 1970s"
Children's Literature: An Issues Approach by Masha K. Rudman
ISBN: 9780801305375
Publication Date: 1994-10-31
Includes relevant chapter: "War and Peace"

Frontiers in American Children's Literature by Dorothy Clark (Editor); Linda Salem (Editor)
ISBN: 9781443887977
Publication Date: 2016-04-15
Includes relevant chapter: "Ambiguity, Hypocrisy, and Accuracy in YA African American Civil War Literature"
Suffer the Little Children: Uses of the Past in Jewish and African American Children's Literature by Jodi Eichler-Levine
ISBN: 9780814722992
Publication Date: 2013-04-08
Includes relevant chapter: "Bound to Violence: Lynching, the Holocaust, and the Limits of Representation"
The War of My Generation: Youth Culture and the War on Terror by David Kieran (Editor)
ISBN: 9780813572635
Publication Date: 2015-08-04
Includes relevant chapter: "How to Tell a True War Story... for Children: Children's Literature Addresses Deployment"
Multicultural Children's Literature: Through the Eyes of Many Children by Ambika Gopalakrishnan
ISBN: 9781452212906
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Includes relevant chapter: "Understanding or Justifying Violence"
Everyone's Kid's Books: A Guide to Multicultural, Socially Conscious Books for Children by Nancy Braus; Molly Geider
ISBN: 9780970381606
Publication Date: 2000-09-01
Includes relevant chapter: "Dealing with Violence and Injustice"
Why We Watch: The Attractions of Violent Entertainment by Jeffrey Goldstein (Editor)
ISBN: 9780195118209
Publication Date: 1998-10-15
Includes relevant chapter: "'Violent Delights' in Children's Literature"