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Towards Frenglish Research in Children’s Literature?
A long time ago I was an exemplary (i.e. completely stressed-out) student at the prestigious Lycée Henri-IV in Paris, and I hated it. Desperate to escape the constant humiliations, threats, existential...
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Should children’s writers like children?
That author Every time I do school visits or go to a book fair, there’s always a grumpy paedophobic author somewhere. S/he’s been writing for longer that I’ve been alive and s/he’s seen it all. S/he’s...
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On voyeurism in children’s and YA literature
Breaking news: children’s and YA literature, especially the latter, can be pretty racy. From Tabitha Suzuma’s tale of an incestuous relationship between brother and sister (Forbidden) to The Hunger...
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The quality of silence
School visits in primary school are nothing like school visits in high school. Primary school is Care Bear land: children are enthusiastic, chatty, unhibited, fun, on the edge of their seats. You leave...
View Article‘Open Access’, 1. The Problem of ‘Power’.
Outreach, impact, open access – as academics, we’re constantly asked to make our research accessible to the general public, sometimes at great cost to us, whether in terms of time or of money. The...
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The Royal Wedding Crashers
The Royal Wedding Crashers is out! and it’s bigger than its older brother I celebrated by writing a blog post for LoveReading 4 Kids about Ten French Children’s Books that are Available in English! But...
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News and Mayhem
It’s been a very long while since I last wrote anything here; Russian and Spanish (see post below) have enjoyed a very durable top spot on this blog. Most of the action has been happening over there on...
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Adapt at your own risk
[Originally published on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure] This is one of my French books, La louve, fabulously illustrated by Antoine Déprez: When I say ‘fabulously’, I mean it in both senses of the...
View ArticleChildfree adults in children’s literature
[Originally published on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure, January 2016] Recently, I’ve started paying attention, when reading children’s literature, to adult characters who don’t have children. This...
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Insulting the Child
From the academic-reading cave, here’s a little 1923 clipping from The Argonaut, a Californian journal that ran from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century. I wasn’t even looking for anything...
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