Examines the ways in which writers and artists have attempted to address children’s experience of atrocity.

Examines the role that Japanese girls’ magazine culture played during the twentieth century in the creation and use of the notion of shōjo, the cultural identity of adolescent Japanese girls.

A collection of student essays that captures the passionate engagement their generation brings to the Harry Potter phenomenon.

Intriguing, updated portraits of classic fairy tale authors.

Overturns traditional views of the origins of fairy tales and documents their actual origins and transmission.