Conflicts and Controversies: Challenging Children’s Literature

Bridget Carrington & Jennifer Harding (eds.)
Pied Piper Publishing, 2011.

This collection of papers represents presentations given at the annual Conference of the British branch of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBYUK) and the National Centre for Research in Children’s Literature (NCRCL) at Roehampton University in November 2010. Its subject, Conflicts and Controversies, reflects the breadth of discussion in which students of children’s literature engage, and the papers themselves reveal that there is a long and involved history of controversy and conflict both within and about books for young people.

Individual papers from authors, publishers and scholars examine that history, but also consider what makes a book controversial, particularly in the opinion of adults, and how writers through the centuries have portrayed conflict – social, personal and political – to draw the attention of young readers to the often perplexing and uncomfortable realities of life.

Going Graphic: Comics and Graphic Novels for Young People

Bridget Carrington & Jennifer Harding (eds.)
Pied Piper Publishing, 2010.

The 2009 British IBBY UK/NCRCL MA conference, held at Roehampton University, highlighted not only the rich and varied literary output that is developing from the interaction between an increasing variety of graphic media, but also the continuing and fruitful collaboration amongst a wide-ranging group of children's literature enthusiasts, which results in this annual event. Going Graphic: Comics and Graphic Novels for Young People explores the developing interest in the graphic medium from a variety of perspectives, in addition to considering developments in the range and content of comics and graphic novels now available to children and young people. 

Deep into Nature: Ecology, Environment & Children's Literature

Edited by Jennifer Harding, Elizabeth Thiel & Alison Waller
Pied Piper Publishing (NCRCL/IBBY papers 15), 2009.

Discourses of global warming and ecological disaster dominate our contemporary world. This important and timely collection, bringing together papers from the 2009 British IBBY/NCRCL MA conference Deep into Nature: Ecology, Environment and Children's Literature, explores the relationship between texts for children, and nature and the natural world. Featuring articles by a diversity of contributors, from leading authors to eminent academics, it demonstrates the breadth of ways in which today's ecological and environmental concerns are being confronted and interrogated by children's writers, educators and scholars.

What Do You See? International Perspectives on Children's Book Illustration

Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008

The proceedings of the 14th annual IBBY/NCRCL conference held at Roehampton University in 2007.