UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI
New from University Press of Mississippi’s
Children’s Literature Association Series
Reading in the Dark
Horror in Children’s Literature
and Culture
Edited by Jessica R. McCort
Considerations of horror from
Struwwelpeter to Coraline, Shrek,
and Monsters, Inc.
$60
Mothers in Children’s and
Young Adult Literature
Eleanor H. Porter’s
Pollyanna
From the Eighteenth Century to
Postfeminism
A Children’s Classic at 100
Edited by Lisa Rowe Fraustino
and Lydia Kokkola
and Karen Coats
A thorough examination of
the context and impact of the
irrepressibly optimistic literary
darling
From didactic nursery rhymes to
Coraline and The Hunger Games,
essays offer an engagement with the
vital figure of the mother
Edited by Roxanne Harde
$65
$60
Now Available in Paperback
Little Red Readings
Reading Like a Girl
Historical Materialist Perspectives
on Children’s Literature
Narrative Intimacy in
Contemporary American
Young Adult Literature
Edited by Angela E. Hubler
A compelling case for the need to
analyze children’s literature from a
Marxist perspective
$30
By Sara K. Day
How novels targeted at teens engage
narrator and reader in intimate
dramas of friendship, love, identity,
and sexuality
$30
www.upress.state.ms.us
Crockett Johnson
and Ruth Krauss
How an Unlikely Couple Found
Love, Dodged the FBI, and
Transformed Children’s Literature
By Philip Nel
An illustrated biography of the
innovative geniuses who created
children’s classics
$40
ALSO AVAILABLE AS EBOOKS
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