Demonstrating the aesthetic, cultural, political, and intellectual diversity of children’s literature across the globe, this companion is the first volume of its kind to focus on the undervisited regions of the world.

Introduction: literary theory around the worldSection 1: Theoretical issues in International Children’s LiteratureMagical Realism in Latin American children's literatureThe unhu literary gaze: An African-based mode of reading Zimbabwean children’s texts.Grounds for ‘rights reading’ practicesEgyptian Children’s Literature: Ideology & PoliticsAnimist materialism in YA dystopian fiction by Indigenous authors: an ecocritical readingThe Construction of a Modern Child and a Chinese National Character: Translating AliceThe Construction of a Modern Child and a Chinese National Character: Translating Alice5. Politics and ethics in Chinese texts for the young: the Confucian traditionViolence and Death in Children’s and Young People’s LiteratureSection 2: Historical contexts and national identityIndigenous and juvenile: when books from villages arrive at bookstoresThe British Empire and Indian Nationalism in Rabindranath Tagore’s Historical Poems and The Land of CardReshaping perceptions of national progress through the representation of marginalized cultural realities in Caribbean Children’s Storiespostcolonialism and neo-colonialism (x1)The Paradoxical Negotiation of Coloniality and Postcoloniality in African Children’s Literature with Particular Reference to Zimbabwe‘Imperial gospel’: the Afrikaans children’s Bible and the dawn of Afrikaner civil religion in South AfricaChildren's Literature in the GCC Arab StatesSection 3: Cross-cultural encountersKorean Picture Books, Imagology, and Narrative Modalities13. Effects of globalization on development of subjectivity in YA fictionEthno-racial relations and Brazilian- African children’s literature Notions of self and other among children of diasporic communitiesSection 4: Children’s texts and cultural formsContemporary poetry for children and youth in BrazilEvery Which Way: Direction and Narrative Time in Kaslan Geddan and the Flash Series14. Old/New Media for Muslim Children: The Forest, The Trees, and The Mushrooms Brazilian Children's Literature and Booklet Literature: approximations and distancesNew Media Chinese Children’s LiteratureBrazilian Children’s Literature in the Age of Digital Culture Children's book illustration in Colombia: notes for a historySection 5: Origins – Folktale and Traditional Story Folktales as signposts of cultural heritageBreaking and Making of Cross-Species Friendships in the Panćantantra Bal Hanuman and the Politics of Being a SuperheroAnimal Fiction in Chinese Children’s LiteratureThe Centrality of Hawaiian Mythology in Three Genres of Hawaiʻi’s Contemporary Folk Literature for ChildrenFrom Orality to Print: Construction of Nso Identity in Folk Tales.Section 6: Picture BooksLittle Feminists: The Granddaughters of ScheherazadeJapanese Picturebooks "Light like a Bird, Not a Feather": Science Picture Books from China and the USAIllustrated books in Thailand: From Mana-Manee to the 80 Picture Books ProjectIranian PicturebooksMultimodal Children’s Books in Turkey: Illustrated Books and PicturebooksEarly childhood literature in Latin America: Picturebooks for children from 0 to 3 yearsSection 7: Global children’s literaturesRecent Trends and Themes in Chinese Children’s FictionThe Moribito Series and its relation to trends in Japanese Children’s LiteratureRecent Trends and Themes in Malaysian Children's FictionBrazilian Literature for young people: between the reader and the marketDevelopment of Literature for Children and Young People in ChileChildren´s and young adult literature in Guatemala: a mirror turned over the wallBreaking Illusions: Contradictory Representations of African ChildhoodRecent developments in South Africa’s English literature for the youngRecent YA Fiction in Iran