... Robinson Crusoe Children’s Literature Islands This collection reconsiders literary didacticism by demonstrating the ways in which the Robinsonade has evolved from the anxious moralising of earlier examples of the genre into a more socially instructive vehicle for engaging young readers with contemporary...

... worlds in children’s literature. The essay analyses the conventions and tropes used in children’s fiction and describes the ways in which they work together to ‘convince’ the reader of alternative realities. Jones also describes her own joy of reading as a child and reflects on the Chronicles...

...Cynthia Laborde investigates the representation of sports in children’s literature, especially in the stories about le Petit Nicolas and his friends, published as a series of books from 1960 to 1965 by author René Goscinny and illustrator Jean-Jacques Sempé. Her analysis focuses both on gender...