In recent years, publishers and children’s book professionals have registered a new enthusiasm for comic and graphic narrative forms. Graphic narratives as children’s literature offer an exciting new type of text for children and youth, providing important insights into the interests and capabilities of these youngsters as readers and as potential agents of change. Curiously, children’s literature criticism has tended to ignore or, at best, marginalize comics and graphic narratives for young people. This “blind spot” in children’s literature and comics criticism, as Charles Hatfield has called it on a number of occasions, is now being addressed.

This reference text, Children’s Literature and Graphic Narrative, will be a part of Routledge’s exciting new series, Introductions to YA and Children’s Literature. This volume, aimed at graduates / undergraduates new to the field as well as scholars of children’s literature and graphic narrative, will balance foundational information about these two fields and key topics with new developments and trends related to children’s literature and graphic narrative, broadly described.

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