The International Research Society
for Children's Literature














Books for IRSCL Review


If members are interested to review any of the following books, please get in touch with Christine Wilkie-Stibbs.

If any members have recently published a book that they would like to be reviewed on the Reviews Page, please supply publication details to Christine Wilkie-Stibbs.

c.wilkie@warwick.ac.uk and Cwilkiestibbs@aol.com



Jack Zipes (ed), The Robber with the Witch's Head: More Stories from the Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales Collected by Laura Gonzenbach, translated with an Introduction by Jack Zipes. New York: Routledge, 2004.

Ann Lundin, Constructing the Canon of Children's Literature . New York: Routledge, 2004.

Adrienne E. Gavin, Dark Horse: A Life of Anna Sewell . Stroud, Glos: Sutton Publishing Ltd., 2004. (additional reviewers required)

Nicholas Tucker, (ed) School Stories From Bunter to Buckeridge . Lichfield, Staffs: Pied Piper Publishing Ltd., 2003.

Karin Lesnik-Oberstein, (ed) Children's Literature: New Approaches , Basingstoke, Hants: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Peter Hunt, (ed) The Routledge Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, 2 nd Edition, Vols. I and II. London: Routledge, 2004.

Yoriko Iwata and Ariko Kawabata, Making of a Victorian Lady (Japanese Language edition), Kawade Shobo Shinsha Publishers; 2004. (additional reviewers required).

Christine Wilkie-Stibbs, The Feminine Subject in Children's Literature . New York: Routldege, 2002.

Morteza Khosronejad, Innocence and Experience: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Children's Literature (Farsi language edition). Tehran: Nashr-e Markaz publishing Co, 2003.

Sharron L. McElmeel, Children's Authors and Illustrators Too Good to Miss. Westport, Connecticut: Libraries Unlimited, 2004.

Margaret Meek and Victor Watson, Coming of Age in Children's LIterature: Growth and Maturity in the Work of Philippa Pearce, Cynthia Voigt and Jan Mark. London: Continuum Studies in Children's LIterature, 2002. 

  



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