Handbook of Research on Children's and Young Adult Literature by Wolf PB..

Handbook of Research on Children's and Young Adult LiteratureAuthor(s): Shelby Wolf, Karen Coats, Patricia Enciso, Christine Jenkins\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415965064, 978-0415965064\nSynopsis\nThis landmark volume is the first to bring together leading scholarship on childrens and young adult literature from three intersecting disciplines: Education, English, and Library and Information Science. Distinguished by its multidisciplinary approach, it describes and analyzes the different aspects of literary reading, texts, and contexts to illuminate how the book is transformed within and across different academic figurations of reading and interpreting childrens literature.\n\nPart one considers perspectives on readers and reading literature in home, school, library, and community settings.\n\nPart two introduces analytic frames for studying young adult novels, picturebooks, indigenous literature, graphic n.