A Companion to Children's Literature

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KAREN COATS, DEBORAH STEVENSON, AND VIVIAN YENIKA-AGBAW

This edition first published 2022

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Names: Coats, Karen, 1963- editor. | Stevenson, Deborah, 1962- editor. | Yenika-Agbaw, Vivian S. 1959- editor.

Title: A companion to children’s literature / edited by Karen Coats, Deborah Stevenson, and Vivian Yenika Agbaw.

Description: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley & Sons, 2022. |Series: [Blackwell companions to literature and culture] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021061535 (print) | LCCN 2021061536 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119038221 (hardback) | ISBN 9781119038238 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119038269 (pdf) | ISBN 9781119038252 (epub) | ISBN 9781119038276 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Children’s literature—History and criticism. | Young adult literature—History and criticism.

Classification: LCC PN1009.A1 C644 2022 (print) | LCC PN1009.A1 (ebook) | DDC 809/.89282—dc23/eng/20220203

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LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021061536

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Dedicated to our wonderful and much-missed colleague, Vivian Yenika-Agbaw, May 21, 1959–September 30, 2021

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