The child_lit listserv is a place of conflicting responses: awe (when Philip Pullman casually posts), appreciation (when erudite and passion...

I've got two Girl Guide projects on the boil at the moment. And for this reason I've become a somewhat compulsive eBayer, trawling f...

It has been a challenge to keep the focus of this blog on the topic of girls' literature and culture. Every day there are dozens of issu...

Comment on Seth Lerer’s Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter from a girls’ literature perspective I remembe...

We hide things because we are ashamed of them. Because we know that the norms of our culture will say that there is something embarrassing a...

How do names suddenly catch on? Why are kindergarten teachers wiping the noses of Brittanys and Mias, Coopers and Rileys, yet nursing homes ...

There's no doubt that US cultural influences formed the bulk of my childhood entertainment. My family rarely watched Australian public ...