Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Children’s Places, Spaces, Literature, and Culture
Part I: Place, Space, and Identity
1 “Xanadu Hidden in the Heart of Bootle”: Place and Foreignness in The Unforgotten Coat
2 Skiing and Being Swedish: Taking a Cold Look at Winter Picturebooks
3 Cows on the Cover: Dairy Queen and Regional Literature
4 John Green’s Peopled Places and Abandoned Spaces
Part II: Aesthetics of Place
5 Confronting “Un-London”: Charlie Fletcher’s Stoneheart Trilogy and the Rejection of Nostalgic Landscapes
6 Room to Imagine? Authoritative Architecture in J. K. Rowling’s Wizarding World
7 A Sleuthing Place: Child Detectives and Their Offices
Part III: (Dis)placement and Mobility
8 “Girl. Wherever the F*ck You Want”: The Contingent Mobilities of Literary Adolescence
9 Whirlpooling Feminist Rage: Gang Rape-Revenge in Foul Is Fair and The Nowhere Girls
10 A Town Should Have Twenty-Five People: Harriet M. Welsch’s Small-Town New York City
11 How to Develop a Children’s Culture Study Abroad Program in Three Easy Steps
Part IV: Place Attachment
12 Making Home: The Queer Ecological Possibilities of Children’s Picturebooks
13 Maralinga – The Aṉangu Story: Country, Multimodality, and Living Space
14 Re-placing Indigenous Land and Children Within the Anthropocene: Carole Lindstrom’s We Are Water Protectors
15 Beyond the Eco-Warrior Child in Children’s Literature
Part V: Spectrality and Memory
16 Dearly Departed: The Arrival’s Spectral Refugee
17 Someone’s Missing: The Spectral Landscape of Martial Law in Selected Children’s Picturebooks from the Philippines
18 Charlotte Temple, a Literary Landmark, and Nineteenth-Century Notions of Adolescence
Part VI: Placing Readers
19 Space, Place, and Readers: Understanding Setting as “Placing-in-Process”
20 Child and Teen Demographics in Movement through the Fantastic Place of London
21 Where Does Alice Come from? Places in Translation and Adaptation
22 Canon Out of Place: Centering Lived Realities in Neurodivergent Middle Grade Literature
Part VII: Virtual and Archival Spaces
23 “The Ickabog Illustration Competition”: Showcasing Reader Responses and a Transnational Poetics of Place
24 Places and Spaces of/for Reading in Children’s Literature: From Mysterious Dusty Libraries to Cities Made of Books
25 Pilgrimages in the First Season of The Flying House Anime Series
26 An All-White World? The Cartography We Create in Adaptations for Young People
Contributors
Index