Distinguished by its multidisciplinary approach, this landmark Handbook is the first to bring together leading scholarship on children's and young adult literature from three intersecting disciplines: Education, English, and Library and Information Science.

Part 1 The Reader; Chapter 1 Children Reading at Home, Evelyn Arizpe, Morag Styles; Chapter 2 Questioning the Value of Literacy, Eva-Maria Simms; Chapter 3 The Book as Home? It All Depends, Shirley Brice Heath; Chapter 4 Reading Literature in Elementary Classrooms, Kathy G. Short; Chapter 5 Readers, Texts, and Contexts in the Middle, Thomas P. Crumpler, Linda Wedwick; Chapter 6 Reading Literature in Secondary School, Cynthia Lewis, Jessica Dockter; Chapter 7 Imagining a Writer's Life, Elizabeth Dutro, Monette C. McIver; Chapter 8 Teaching Latina/o Children's Literature in Multicultural Contexts, María E. Fránquiz, Carmen Martínez-Roldán, Carmen I. Mercado; Chapter 9 School Libraries and the Transformation of Readers and Reading, Eliza T. Dresang, M. Bowie Kotrla; Chapter 10 Public Libraries in the Lives of Young Readers, Paulette M. Rothbauer, Virginia A. Walter, Kathleen Weibel; Chapter 11 Becoming Readers of Literature with LGBT Themes, Mollie V. Blackburn, Caroline T. Clark; Chapter 12 Immigrant Students as Cosmopolitan Intellectuals, Gerald Campano, María Paula Ghiso; Part 2 The Book; Chapter 13 History of Children's and Young Adult Literature, Deborah Stevenson; Chapter 13a Point of Departure, Lois Lowry; Chapter 14 Dime Novels and Series Books, Catherine Sheldrick Ross; Chapter 14a Point of Departure, Candice Ransom; Chapter 15 Folklore in Children's Literature, Betsy Hearne; Chapter 15a Point of Departure, Julius Lester; Chapter 16 African American Children's Literature, Rudine Sims Bishop; Chapter 16a Point of Departure, Jacqueline Woodson; Chapter 17 The Art of the Picturebook, Lawrence R. Sipe; Chapter 17a Point of Departure, Chris Raschka; Chapter 17b Point of Departure, David Wiesner; Chapter 18 Comics and Graphic Novels, Robin Brenner; Chapter 18a Point of Departure, Gareth Hinds; Chapter 18b Point of Departure, Raina Telgemeier; Chapter 19 A Burgeoning Field or a Sorry State, Laura Apol, Janine L. Certo; Chapter 19a Point of Departure, Janet S. Wong; Chapter 20 Nonfiction Literature for Children, Barbara Kiefer, Melissa I. Wilson; Chapter 20a Point of Departure, Penny Colman; Chapter 21 Genre as Nexus, Mike Cadden; Chapter 21a Point of Departure, Philip Pullman; Chapter 22 Young Adult Literature, Karen Coats; Chapter 22a Point of Departure, Markus Zusak; Chapter 23 Reading Indigeneity, Clare Bradford; Chapter 23a Point of Departure, Joseph Bruchac; Chapter 24 Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Children's Literature, and the Case of Jeff Smith, Roderick McGillis; Chapter 24a Point of Departure, David Filipi; Chapter 24b Point of Departure, Lucy Shelton Caswell, David Filipi, Jeff Smith; Chapter 25 Ideology and Children's Books, Robyn McCallum, John Stephens; Chapter 25a Point of Departure, M. T. Anderson; Chapter 26 The Author's Perspective, Claudia Mills; Chapter 26a Point of Departure, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor; Chapter 27 Archives and Special Collections Devoted to Children's and Young Adult Literature, Karen Nelson Hoyle; Chapter 27a Point of Departure, Leonard S. Marcus; Part 3 The World Around; Chapter 28 Where Worlds Meet, Ana Maria Machado; Chapter 28a Point of Departure, Katherine Paterson; Chapter 29 Translation and Crosscultural Reception, Maria Nikolajeva; Chapter 29a Point of Departure, Tara F. Chace; Chapter 30 The Implied Reader of the Translation, Petros Panaou, Tasoula Tsilimeni; Chapter 30a Point of Departure, Kostia Kontoleon; Chapter 31 International Communities Building Places for Youth Reading, Michael Daniel Ambatchew; Chapter 31a Point of Departure, Jane Kurtz; Chapter 31b Point of Departure, Yohannes Gebregeorgis; Chapter 32 Censorship, Christine A. Jenkins; Chapter 33 Reviewing Children's and Young Adult Literature, Michael Cart; Chapter 34 Awards in Literature for Children and Adolescents, Junko Yokota; Chapter 35 The Economics of Children's Book Publishing in the 21st Century, Joel Taxel; Chapter 36 Spinning Off, Margaret Mackey; Chapter 37 Listening for the Scratch of a Pen, Elizabeth Hammill;