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June 19, 2018 Children's Literature / Criticism / cultural concerns / Education / empirical research / publishing / YA literature / young adult literature

Autism in Children’s Fiction

Anna Purkiss is a first year PhD student at the Children’s Literature Research Centre at the University of Cambridge. Her

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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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April 11, 2017 Children's Literature / Event / picturebooks / The Child and the Book / young adult literature

The Child and the Book Conference 2017: Interdisciplinary Links between Children’s Literature and the Arts

Maya Zakrzewska-Pim is a first year PhD student, who did her MPhil here 2 years ago, and has come back

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February 28, 2017 Children / Children's Literature / Film / University of Cambridge / young adult literature

From Book to Screen: Adaptations to Watch Out For

Danielle Cameron refuses to believe that her second term as an MPhil student is nearing its end. She can often

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October 4, 2016 Cambridge / Children's Literature / cognitive poetics / Event / University of Cambridge / young adult literature

3rd Cambridge Symposium on Cognitive Approaches to Children’s Literature

January 24, 2015 Children's Literature / cognitive poetics / Fantasy / feminism / theory of mind / University of Cambridge / young adult literature

A Lot of Lessons from Tamora Pierce (and Just a Little Theory of Mind)

  I don’t know about you guys, but my adolescent years were full of awkward encounters, sweaty palms, and not

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May 18, 2014 graphic novel / illustration / YA literature

In a parallel world, these graphic novels do exist.

When Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld came out in 2009, it probably wasn’t that common to have illustrations included in a

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March 17, 2013 A Boy and A Bear In A Boat / ALMA / Carnegie Medal / Children / Children's Literature / Dave Shelton / Kate Greenaway Medal / libraries / Man Booker Prize / readers / YA literature

Musings on Medals

I had every intention of using this week’s blog to offer some deep insight into this year’s CILIP Carnegie and

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March 3, 2013 Commonwealth Essay Competition / Creative Writing / YA literature

Writing Royalty

As evidenced by some of our recent blog entries, being a PhD student isn’t all sitting in the library (even

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October 9, 2011 young adult literature

$500 Jeans, and other Trials and Tribulations of Dystopia

by Susan Our first introduction to the world of Tomorrow Girls, a dystopian series meant for those ‘not quite ready’

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