A Companion to Children's Literature

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Nicole B. Adkinsis an award-wining playwright, Artistic Associate with YouthPLAYS, and core visiting faculty in the Playwright’s Lab graduate program at Hollins University, Virginia. Co-author of Playwriting and Young Audiences: Collected Wisdom and Practical Advice from the Field , her plays have been produced in schools, museums, and theatres across the United States, as well as in Canada, England, Africa, and China.

Cherie Allanwas a lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia. She taught both graduate and undergraduate children’s and young adult literature and youth popular culture. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at QUT and coordinator of a MEd unit on youth popular culture. Her book, Playing with Picturebooks: Postmodernism and the Postmodernesque (2012), was awarded the International Research Society for Children’s Literature’s (IRSCL) Honor Book Award in 2013.

Thaddeus Andrackiis a white settler living and working on land stolen by the United States from the Council of Three Fires – the Odawa, Potawatomi, and Ojibwe Nations. A middle school librarian at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, he focuses his research on theoretical and practical aspects of race, gender, sexuality, and indigeneity in children’s and young adult literatures. His work has previously been presented at the Children’s Literature Association conference and appeared in multiple edited collections.

Evelyn Arizpeholds the Chair of Children’s Literature at the School of Education, University of Glasgow, and is co-founder of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degree programme, “Children’s Literature, Media and Culture.” She has taught and published widely both nationally and internationally and has co-authored Children Reading Picturebooks: Interpreting Visual Texts (2003/2016) and Visual Journeys through Wordless Narratives (2014). She has also co-edited Children as Readers in Children’s Literature: The Power of Text and the Importance of Reading (2016) and Young People Reading: Empirical Research across International Contexts (2018). Her current research involves children’s literature and the arts in projects on migration, conflict, and peacebuilding.

Elizabeth Bushreceived a BA degree from Roosevelt University, an MA degree from Governors State University, and an MLS degree from Rosary College (now Dominican University.) She was a librarian within Archdiocese of Chicago for two decades. After reviewing for Booklist she came to the Bulletin , where she has been a reviewer for nearly thirty years. She taught as an adjunct lecturer in the Youth Services program at the iSchool of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has served on the Boston Globe-Horn Book, Robert F. Sibert, Gryphon, and Scott O’Dell Awards Committees.

Mike Caddenis the author of Ursula K. Le Guin Beyond Genre: Fiction for Children and Adults and At Arm’s Length: A Rhetoric Of Character in Children’s and Young Adult Literature . He is a past president of the Children’s Literature Association.

Paula T. Connollyis a professor and is Coordinator of Children’s Literature Programs in the English Department at the University of North Carolina where she teaches courses in children’s literature, culture, and film, including work on Disney films. She has published on Disney’s recreation of Winnie-the-Pooh, including in Walt Disney, From Reader to Storyteller: Essays on the Literary Inspirations (eds. Kathy Merlock Jackson and Mark I. West, 2015).

Rachel Conradis Professor of Childhood Studies at Hampshire College. She is the author of Time for Childhoods: Young Poets and Questions of Agency (2020), a study of young poets’ shaping of time as an expression of youth agency in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century United States. Conrad is also co-editor of Literary Cultures and Twentieth-Century Childhoods (2020), and an editor with the book series “Childhoods: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children and Youth” at the University of Massachusetts Press. In The Lion and the Unicorn ’s special issue on children’s literature and climate change, she explores contemporary young climate activists’ crafting of time in their nonfiction prose writings as a key component of their activism.

Rachel Falconeris Professor of English Literature at the University of Lausanne. She is author of four monographs, including The Crossover Novel: Contemporary Children’s Fiction and Its Adult Readership (2009), Hell in Contemporary Literature: Western Descent Narratives since 1945 (2007), and Seamus Heaney, Virgil and the Good of Poetry (2022). She has also edited six volumes, including Kathleen Jamie: Essays and Poems on Her Work (2014), and with Madeleine Scherer A Quest for Remembrance: The Underworld in Classical and Modern Literature (2020). She teaches poetry, young adult and contemporary fiction, environmental humanities, and classical reception studies.

Hannah Fieldis senior lecturer in Victorian literature at the University of Sussex. She is the author of Playing with the Book: Victorian Movable Picture Books and the Child Reader (2019) and co-editor of Space and Place in Children’s Literature, 1789 to the Present (2015). Along with Kiera Vaclavik, she is currently leading an interdisciplinary research network about childhood, clothing, and creativity.

Macarena García Gonzálezis Associate Researcher at the Center for Advanced Studies in Educational Justice and Lecturer at the Faculty of Communications of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. She holds a PhD in social anthropology and cultural studies from the University of Zurich and an MA in cultural studies from the University of Maastricht. She has the Study of Multicultural Literature (CSCML) since its inception in 2011 and has also served as a selector on the Coretta Scott Kind Book Award Jury and the United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY)’s Hans Christian Andersen Award Nominating Committee.