Carrie Hintz is Associate Professor of English at Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA.

Introduction

1. Definitions

2. Children's literature: early and global histories

3. Children's literature and the political

4. Theories and methodologies

5. Children's literature and the global and natural world

Conclusion

Children's Literature is an accessible introduction to this engaging field. Carrie Hintz offers a defining conceptual overview of children's literature that presents its competing histories, its cultural contexts, and the theoretical debates it has instigated.