Children's and Young Adult Literature and Culture

Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture: A Mosaic of Criticism is a collection of essays that explore a wealth of topics in children’s and young adult literature and culture. Essays about fantasy literature include an exploration of environmentalism in Rick Riordan’s Heroes of Olympus, a discussion of Severus Snape as a Judas figure, and a comparison of Katniss and Tris in The Hunger Games and Divergent. Television and internet culture are explored in essays about Horrible Histories and Welcome to Night Vale. Other essays examine young adult literature through the readers of Harry Potter and through the Michael L. Printz Award. International children’s literature is explored through essays about children’s literature in the Arab world and in Bengali crime fiction. Race and gender are explored in an essay about black girls and women as consumable objects in an examination of picture books and Nicki Minaj Finally, fairy tales and ghost stories come under scrutiny in essays about Joyce Carol Oates’s and Eva Ibbotson’s works.