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
Category: young adult 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
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
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
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
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
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
Writing Royalty
As evidenced by some of our recent blog entries, being a PhD student isn’t all sitting in the library (even
$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’
Children's Literature at Cambridge 