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June 8, 2018 Cambridge / Children's Literature / Criticism / Education / empirical research / research

Liberation or Burden? Debating the Childist Turn

Nic Hilton is a first year PhD candidate at the Children’s Literature Research Centre at the University of Cambridge studying

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May 29, 2018 American Literature Association / Children's Literature / cognitive poetics / Conference / empathy / narrative text / PhD / research / YA literature

(Re)Presenting Children’s Literature at General Literature Conferences

Vera Veldhuizen is a second year PhD (which terrifyingly means that she should know what she’s doing by now). Her

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January 30, 2018 Cambridge / Children's Literature / Homerton College / PhD / research / University of Cambridge

PhD InsaniTea

Vera Veldhuizen is a second year PhD at Cambridge, focusing on children’s war literature. She also likes cats, but mainly

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May 26, 2013 Cory Doctorow / homeland / non-fiction / research / teaching

Accessing a Free Education

by Richard For this week’s blog post I am stepping outside my usual realms of thinking about fiction texts by

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May 13, 2013 international symposiums / John Naughton / New Literacies / research / the Internet

Thinking through reading and researching children’s literature in the twenty-first century

About a month ago I attended an international mini-symposium here, at the University of Cambridge, which brought together Children’s Literature

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May 3, 2012 Guest Post / research

Afterthoughts on completing a cross cultural research in children’s literature

guest post by Louiza Mallouri The aftermath of the completion of a cross cultural research in a conflict ridden context,

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March 11, 2012 Alex Rider / Anthony Horowitz / authorial intention / Blue Peter / fiction / Film / Harry Potter / Jeff Kinney / JK Rowling / Michael Morpurgo / research / Wimpy Kid / World Book Day

Decade of the Wimpy Kid

This years World Book Day witnessed the crowning of a new literary hero when Blue Peter viewers voted the Diary

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July 18, 2011 Characters / Deathly Hallows / Film / Harry Potter / research

Harry Potter and the Enduring Image

By Debbie On Friday night, the Potter-generation daughter and I arrived for the first showing of the Deathly Hallows finale

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May 1, 2011 Books / empathy / Event / research

So…what has the royal wedding got to do with children’s literature?

So…what has the royal wedding got to do with children’s literature?  Well, the initial instinctive answer surely has to be not a lot, as Maria

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April 6, 2011 empathy / research / young adult literature

Unlikely Couples : The Rules of Attraction in Young Adult Fiction

by Sophia “Only connect” (E.M. Forster) As I neared the end of Cormier’s young adult novel Tenderness, I found myself

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