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: January 2026
Publication Order
1
Regendering the School Story (By: Beverly Lyon Clark)
Buy on Amazon1996
2
The Case of Peter Rabbit (By: Margaret Mackey)
Buy on Amazon1998
3
Narrating Africa (By: Mawuena Kossi Logan)
Buy on Amazon1999
4
How Picturebooks Work (By: Maria Nikolajeva)
Buy on Amazon2000
5
Children's Films (By: Ian Wojik-Andrews)
Buy on Amazon2000
6
Empire's Children (By: M. Daphne Kutzer)
Buy on Amazon2000
7
The Presence of the Past (By: Valerie Krips)
Buy on Amazon2000
8
The Poetics of Childhood (By: Roni Natov)
Buy on Amazon2002
9
A Past Without Shadow (By: Zohar Shavit)
Buy on Amazon2004
10
Brown Gold (By: Michelle H. Martin)
Buy on Amazon2004
11
The Making of the Modern Child (By: Andrew O'Malley)
Buy on Amazon2004
12
Ursula K. Le Guin Beyond Genre (By: Mike Cadden)
Buy on Amazon2004
13
Diana Wynne Jones (By: Farah Mendlesohn)
Buy on Amazon2005
14
Youth of Darkest England (By: Troy Boone)
Buy on Amazon2005
15
Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins (By: Jack Zipes)
Buy on Amazon2006
16
Voracious Children (By: Carolyn Daniel)
Buy on Amazon2006
17
National Character in South African English Children's Literature (By: Elwyn Jenkins)
Buy on Amazon2006
18
A Critical History of French Children's Literature: Volume Two: 1830-Present (By: Penny Brown)
Buy on Amazon2007
19
Representing Africa in Children's Literature (By: Vivian Yenika-Agbaw)
Buy on Amazon2007
20
Once Upon a Time in a Different World: Issues and Ideas in African American Children’s Literature (By: Neal A. Lester)
Buy on Amazon2007
21
The Outside Child, In and Out of the Book (By: Christine Wilkie-Stibbs)
Buy on Amazon2007
22
A Critical History of French Children's Literature: Volume One: 1600-1830 (By: Penny Brown)
Buy on Amazon2007
23
Death, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Adolescent Literature (By: Kathryn James)
Buy on Amazon2008
24
From Nursery Rhymes to Nationhood (By: Elizabeth A. Galway)
Buy on Amazon2008
25
Enterprising Youth (By: Monika M. Elbert)
Buy on Amazon2008
26
The Crossover Novel (By: Rachel Falconer)
Buy on Amazon2008
27
Crossover Fiction: Global and Historical Perspectives (By: Sandra L. Beckett)
Buy on Amazon2008
28
Constructing Adolescence in Fantastic Realism (By: Alison Waller)
Buy on Amazon2008
29
Critical Approaches to Food in Children's Literature (By: Kara K. Keeling,Scott T. Pollard)
Buy on Amazon2008
30
Neo-Imperialism in Children-s Literature About Africa (By: Yulisa Amadu Pat Maddy,Donnarae MacCann)
Buy on Amazon2008
31
Shakespeare in Children's Literature (By: Hateley Erica)
Buy on Amazon2008
32
Representations of Technology in Science Fiction for Young People (By: Noga Applebaum)
Buy on Amazon2009
33
Fundamental Concepts of Children's Literature Research (By: Hans-Heino Ewers)
Buy on Amazon2009
34
Translation Under State Control (By: Gaby Thomson-Wohlgemuth)
Buy on Amazon2009
35
Children's Fiction about 9/11 (By: Jo Lampert)
Buy on Amazon2009
36
Power, Voice and Subjectivity in Literature for Young Readers (By: Maria Nikolajeva)
Buy on Amazon2009
37
Juvenile Literature and British Society, 1850-1950 (By: Anna Jackson,Charles Ferrall)
Buy on Amazon2009
38
The Children's Book Business (By: Lissa Paul)
Buy on Amazon2010
39
New Directions in Picturebook Research (By: Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer,Teresa Colomer,Cecilia Silva-Diaz)
Buy on Amazon2010
40
The Role of Translators in Children’s Literature (By: Gillian Lathey)
Buy on Amazon2010
41
Humor in Contemporary Junior Literature (By: Julie Cross)
Buy on Amazon2010
42
Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children's Literature (By: Tison Pugh)
Buy on Amazon2010
43
Irish Children's Literature and Culture (By: Valerie Coghlan)
Buy on Amazon2010
44
Reading the Adolescent Romance (By: Amy S. Pattee)
Buy on Amazon2010
45
Contemporary English-Language Indian Children's Literature (By: Michelle Superle)
Buy on Amazon2011
46
Beyond Pippi Longstocking (By: Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer,Astrid Surmatz)
Buy on Amazon2011
47
The Myth of Persephone in Girls' Fantasy Literature (By: Holly Blackford)
Buy on Amazon2011
48
Landscape in Children's Literature (By: Jane Suzanne Carroll)
Buy on Amazon2012
49
Boys in Children's Literature and Popular Culture (By: Annette Wannamaker)
Buy on Amazon2012
50
Picturing the Wolf in Children's Literature (By: Debra Mitts-Smith)
Buy on Amazon2012
51
Textual Transformations in Children's Literature (By: Benjamin Lefebvre)
Buy on Amazon2013
52
Retelling Stories, Framing Culture (By: John Stephens,Robyn McCallum)
Buy on Amazon2013
53
: Characterizations of African Americans, 1830-1900 (By: Donnarae MacCann)
Buy on Amazon2013
54
The Place of Lewis Carroll in Children's Literature (By: Jan Susina)
Buy on Amazon2013
55
Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults (By: Balaka Basu)
Buy on Amazon2013
56
Rediscoveries in Children's Literature (By: Suzanne Rahn)
Buy on Amazon2013
57
Second-Generation Memory and Contemporary Children's Literature: Ghost Images (By: Anastasia Ulanowicz)
Buy on Amazon2013
58
Sparing the Child: Grief and the Unspeakable in Youth Literature about Nazism and the Holocaust (By: Hamida Bosmajian)
Buy on Amazon2013
59
Beatrix Potter (By: M. Daphne Kutzer)
Buy on Amazon2013
60
Transcending Boundaries (By: Sandra L. Beckett)
Buy on Amazon2013
61
The Gothic in Children's Literature (By: Anna Jackson,Karen Coats,Roderick McGillis)
Buy on Amazon2013
62
Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults (By: Carrie Hintz)
Buy on Amazon2013
63
Recycling Red Riding Hood (By: Sandra L. Beckett)
Buy on Amazon2013
64
Representing the Holocaust in Children's Literature (By: Lydia Kokkola)
Buy on Amazon2013
65
Ways of Being Male (By: John Stephens)
Buy on Amazon2013
66
Inventing the Child (By: Joseph L. Zornado)
Buy on Amazon2013
67
Childhood and Children's Books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800 (By: Michael Witmore)
Buy on Amazon2013
68
The Feminine Subject in Children's Literature (By: Christine Wilkie-Stibbs)
Buy on Amazon2013
69
Pinocchio Goes Postmodern (By: Thomas J. Morrissey)
Buy on Amazon2014
70
Russell Hoban/Forty Years (By: Alida Allison)
Buy on Amazon2014
71
Discourses of Postcolonialism in Contemporary British Children's Literature (By: Blanka Grzegorczyk)
Buy on Amazon2014
72
Embodying Gender and Age in Speculative Fiction (By: Derek J. Thiess)
Buy on Amazon2015
73
The Early Reader in Children's Literature and Culture (By: Annette Wannamaker,Jennifer Miskec)
Buy on Amazon2015
74
Children's Literature and Culture of the First World War (By: Lissa Paul,Emma Short)
Buy on Amazon2015
75
The Big Smallness (By: Michelle Ann Abate)
Buy on Amazon2016
76
The Future of the Nineteenth-Century Dream-Child: Fantasy, Dystopia, Cyberculture (By: Amy Billone)
Buy on Amazon2016
77
Canon Constitution and Canon Change in Children's Literature (By: Anja Müller,Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer)
Buy on Amazon2016
78
Fictions of Integration (By: Naomi Lesley)
Buy on Amazon2017
79
New Directions in Children's Gothic (By: Anna Jackson)
Buy on Amazon2017
80
More Words about Pictures (By: Perry Nodelman)
Buy on Amazon2017
81
Origin Narratives: The Stories We Tell Children About Immigration and International Adoption (By: Macarena García-González)
Buy on Amazon2017
82
The Beloved Does Not Bite (By: Debra Dudek)
Buy on Amazon2017
83
Affect, Emotion, and Children’s Literature (By: Kristine Moruzi)
Buy on Amazon2017
84
The Embodied Child: Readings in Children’s Literature and Culture (By: Roxanne Harde)
Buy on Amazon2017
85
Childhood and Pethood in Literature and Culture (By: Anna Feuerstein)
Buy on Amazon2017
86
The Victorian Era in Twenty-First Century Children’s and Adolescent Literature and Culture (By: Sonya Sawyer Fritz,Sara K. Day)
Buy on Amazon2018
87
‘The Right Thing to Read’: A History of Australian Girl-Readers, 1910-1960 (By: Bronwyn Lowe)
Buy on Amazon2018
88
Battling Girlhood (By: Kristen B. Proehl)
Buy on Amazon2018
89
Cyborg Saints (By: Carissa Turner Smith)
Buy on Amazon2019
90
Out of Reach (By: Kate G. Harper)
Buy on Amazon2019
91
The Arctic in Literature for Children and Young Adults (By: Heidi Hansson)
Buy on Amazon2020
92
Terror and Counter-Terror in Contemporary British Children’s Literature (By: Blanka Grzegorczyk)
Buy on Amazon2020
93
ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature (By: Cristina Herrera)
Buy on Amazon2020
94
Rulers of Literary Playgrounds (By: Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak)
Buy on Amazon2020
95
Antarctica in British Children’s Literature
Buy on Amazon2020
96
Sexuality in Literature for Children and Young Adults (By: Kristine Moruzi,Paul Venzo)
Buy on Amazon2021
97
Dust Off the Gold Medal (By: Sara L. Schwebel)
Buy on Amazon2021
98
Poetics and Ethics of Anthropomorphism (By: Christopher Kelen,Jo You Chengcheng)
Buy on Amazon2021
99
The Figure of the Child in WWI American, British, and Canadian Children’s Literature (By: Elizabeth A Galway)
Buy on Amazon2022
100
Youth Fiction and Trans Representation (By: Tom Sandercock)
Buy on Amazon2022
101
Historical and Cultural Transformations of Russian Childhood (By: Marina Balina)
Buy on Amazon2022
102
Creative Writing in Schools (By: Mick Gowar)
Buy on Amazon2026
103
African American Children in American Political Life (By: Myisha Priest)
Buy on Amazon2026
Frequently Asked Questions
The recommended reading order for the Children's Literature and Culture series is 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), and 98 more. This is generally the best way to experience the story as the author intended.
The Children's Literature and Culture series by Sinead Moriarty contains 103 books. The series began in 1996 and continues to be a popular choice for readers.
The Children's Literature and Culture series is written by Sinead Moriarty. You can find more books and series by this author on our website.
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