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Children's Literature and Culture Books in Order
103
Books
1996
First Book
2026
Latest Book
31
Years
Below you'll find the complete list of Children's Literature and Culture books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: April 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Children's Literature and Culture series? Start with "Regendering the School Story (By: Beverly Lyon Clark)" (1996) and follow publication order through all 103 books.
The complete Children's Literature and Culture reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
1
Regendering the School Story (By: Beverly Lyon Clark)
1996
2
The Case of Peter Rabbit (By: Margaret Mackey)
1998
3
Narrating Africa (By: Mawuena Kossi Logan)
1999
4
How Picturebooks Work (By: Maria Nikolajeva)
2000
5
Children's Films (By: Ian Wojik-Andrews)
2000
6
Empire's Children (By: M. Daphne Kutzer)
2000
7
The Presence of the Past (By: Valerie Krips)
2000
8
The Poetics of Childhood (By: Roni Natov)
2002
9
A Past Without Shadow (By: Zohar Shavit)
2004
10
Brown Gold (By: Michelle H. Martin)
2004
11
The Making of the Modern Child (By: Andrew O'Malley)
2004
12
Ursula K. Le Guin Beyond Genre (By: Mike Cadden)
2004
13
Diana Wynne Jones (By: Farah Mendlesohn)
2005
14
Youth of Darkest England (By: Troy Boone)
2005
15
Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins (By: Jack Zipes)
2006
16
Voracious Children (By: Carolyn Daniel)
2006
17
National Character in South African English Children's Literature (By: Elwyn Jenkins)
2006
18
A Critical History of French Children's Literature: Volume Two: 1830-Present (By: Penny Brown)
2007
19
Representing Africa in Children's Literature (By: Vivian Yenika-Agbaw)
2007
20
Once Upon a Time in a Different World: Issues and Ideas in African American Children’s Literature (By: Neal A. Lester)
2007
21
The Outside Child, In and Out of the Book (By: Christine Wilkie-Stibbs)
2007
22
A Critical History of French Children's Literature: Volume One: 1600-1830 (By: Penny Brown)
2007
23
Death, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Adolescent Literature (By: Kathryn James)
2008
24
From Nursery Rhymes to Nationhood (By: Elizabeth A. Galway)
2008
25
Enterprising Youth (By: Monika M. Elbert)
2008
26
The Crossover Novel (By: Rachel Falconer)
2008
27
Crossover Fiction: Global and Historical Perspectives (By: Sandra L. Beckett)
2008
28
Constructing Adolescence in Fantastic Realism (By: Alison Waller)
2008
29
Critical Approaches to Food in Children's Literature (By: Kara K. Keeling,Scott T. Pollard)
2008
30
Neo-Imperialism in Children-s Literature About Africa (By: Yulisa Amadu Pat Maddy,Donnarae MacCann)
2008
31
Shakespeare in Children's Literature (By: Hateley Erica)
2008
32
Representations of Technology in Science Fiction for Young People (By: Noga Applebaum)
2009
33
Fundamental Concepts of Children's Literature Research (By: Hans-Heino Ewers)
2009
34
Translation Under State Control (By: Gaby Thomson-Wohlgemuth)
2009
35
Children's Fiction about 9/11 (By: Jo Lampert)
2009
36
Power, Voice and Subjectivity in Literature for Young Readers (By: Maria Nikolajeva)
2009
37
Juvenile Literature and British Society, 1850-1950 (By: Anna Jackson,Charles Ferrall)
2009
38
The Children's Book Business (By: Lissa Paul)
2010
39
New Directions in Picturebook Research (By: Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer,Teresa Colomer,Cecilia Silva-Diaz)
2010
40
The Role of Translators in Children’s Literature (By: Gillian Lathey)
2010
41
Humor in Contemporary Junior Literature (By: Julie Cross)
2010
42
Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children's Literature (By: Tison Pugh)
2010
43
Irish Children's Literature and Culture (By: Valerie Coghlan)
2010
44
Reading the Adolescent Romance (By: Amy S. Pattee)
2010
45
Contemporary English-Language Indian Children's Literature (By: Michelle Superle)
2011
46
Beyond Pippi Longstocking (By: Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer,Astrid Surmatz)
2011
47
The Myth of Persephone in Girls' Fantasy Literature (By: Holly Blackford)
2011
48
Landscape in Children's Literature (By: Jane Suzanne Carroll)
2012
49
Boys in Children's Literature and Popular Culture (By: Annette Wannamaker)
2012
50
Picturing the Wolf in Children's Literature (By: Debra Mitts-Smith)
2012
51
Textual Transformations in Children's Literature (By: Benjamin Lefebvre)
2013
52
Retelling Stories, Framing Culture (By: John Stephens,Robyn McCallum)
2013
53
: Characterizations of African Americans, 1830-1900 (By: Donnarae MacCann)
2013
54
The Place of Lewis Carroll in Children's Literature (By: Jan Susina)
2013
55
Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults (By: Balaka Basu)
2013
56
Rediscoveries in Children's Literature (By: Suzanne Rahn)
2013
57
Second-Generation Memory and Contemporary Children's Literature: Ghost Images (By: Anastasia Ulanowicz)
2013
58
Sparing the Child: Grief and the Unspeakable in Youth Literature about Nazism and the Holocaust (By: Hamida Bosmajian)
2013
59
Beatrix Potter (By: M. Daphne Kutzer)
2013
60
Transcending Boundaries (By: Sandra L. Beckett)
2013
61
The Gothic in Children's Literature (By: Anna Jackson,Karen Coats,Roderick McGillis)
2013
62
Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults (By: Carrie Hintz)
2013
63
Recycling Red Riding Hood (By: Sandra L. Beckett)
2013
64
Representing the Holocaust in Children's Literature (By: Lydia Kokkola)
2013
65
Ways of Being Male (By: John Stephens)
2013
66
Inventing the Child (By: Joseph L. Zornado)
2013
67
Childhood and Children's Books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800 (By: Michael Witmore)
2013
68
The Feminine Subject in Children's Literature (By: Christine Wilkie-Stibbs)
2013
69
Pinocchio Goes Postmodern (By: Thomas J. Morrissey)
2014
70
Russell Hoban/Forty Years (By: Alida Allison)
2014
71
Discourses of Postcolonialism in Contemporary British Children's Literature (By: Blanka Grzegorczyk)
2014
72
Embodying Gender and Age in Speculative Fiction (By: Derek J. Thiess)
2015
73
The Early Reader in Children's Literature and Culture (By: Annette Wannamaker,Jennifer Miskec)
2015
74
Children's Literature and Culture of the First World War (By: Lissa Paul,Emma Short)
2015
75
The Big Smallness (By: Michelle Ann Abate)
2016
76
The Future of the Nineteenth-Century Dream-Child: Fantasy, Dystopia, Cyberculture (By: Amy Billone)
2016
77
Canon Constitution and Canon Change in Children's Literature (By: Anja Müller,Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer)
2016
78
Fictions of Integration (By: Naomi Lesley)
2017
79
New Directions in Children's Gothic (By: Anna Jackson)
2017
80
More Words about Pictures (By: Perry Nodelman)
2017
81
Origin Narratives: The Stories We Tell Children About Immigration and International Adoption (By: Macarena García-González)
2017
82
The Beloved Does Not Bite (By: Debra Dudek)
2017
83
Affect, Emotion, and Children’s Literature (By: Kristine Moruzi)
2017
84
The Embodied Child: Readings in Children’s Literature and Culture (By: Roxanne Harde)
2017
85
Childhood and Pethood in Literature and Culture (By: Anna Feuerstein)
2017
86
The Victorian Era in Twenty-First Century Children’s and Adolescent Literature and Culture (By: Sonya Sawyer Fritz,Sara K. Day)
2018
87
‘The Right Thing to Read’: A History of Australian Girl-Readers, 1910-1960 (By: Bronwyn Lowe)
2018
88
Battling Girlhood (By: Kristen B. Proehl)
2018
89
Cyborg Saints (By: Carissa Turner Smith)
2019
90
Out of Reach (By: Kate G. Harper)
2019
91
The Arctic in Literature for Children and Young Adults (By: Heidi Hansson)
2020
92
Terror and Counter-Terror in Contemporary British Children’s Literature (By: Blanka Grzegorczyk)
2020
93
ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature (By: Cristina Herrera)
2020
94
Rulers of Literary Playgrounds (By: Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak)
2020
95
Antarctica in British Children’s Literature
2020
96
Sexuality in Literature for Children and Young Adults (By: Kristine Moruzi,Paul Venzo)
2021
97
Dust Off the Gold Medal (By: Sara L. Schwebel)
2021
98
Poetics and Ethics of Anthropomorphism (By: Christopher Kelen,Jo You Chengcheng)
2021
99
The Figure of the Child in WWI American, British, and Canadian Children’s Literature (By: Elizabeth A Galway)
2022
100
Youth Fiction and Trans Representation (By: Tom Sandercock)
2022
101
Historical and Cultural Transformations of Russian Childhood (By: Marina Balina)
2022
102
Creative Writing in Schools (By: Mick Gowar)
2026
103
African American Children in American Political Life (By: Myisha Priest)
2026
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