Children's literature
Articles
- Australian Children’s Books
Ten years ago the field of Australian children's books excited little interest from librarians, booksellers, collectors or educationalists. Despite the formation of the Children's Book…
1 May 1972 - ‘To favourably impress the Oriental mind with western knowledge’: Xiaohai yuebao (The Child’s Paper, 1875-1915) and International Print Culture
"The first section of the essay situates Xiaohai yuebao in the context of late nineteenth-century missionary publishing and delineates the relationship between the periodical and…
1 October 2014 - Aboriginality in Ethel Turner’s Seven Little Australians and Its Translation into German
The means by which a Western culture describes an Indigenous ‘other’ can reveal a great deal about the way in which the ‘other’ is understood…
1 November 2015 - Fantasising the Nation for Child Readers in Early Australian Fairy Tales
This article examines three collections of Australian fairy tales published between 1897 and 1925 and considers the ways in which they contributed to nation-building efforts…
11 December 2022