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Growing Up with Vampires
Vampire narratives are generally thought of as adult or young adult fare, yet there is a long history of their appearance in books, film and other media meant for children. They emerge as expressions of anxiety about change and growing up but sometimes turn out to be new best friends who highlight the beauty of difference and individuality. This collection of new essays examines the history of vampires in 20th and 21st century Western popular media marketed to preteens and explores their significance and symbolism.
A Summer Holiday at Bridget’s Bicycle Bakery: A Short Story (The Carrington’s Bicycle Bakery, Book 2)
Escape to Mulberry-on-Sea...
Remembered Reading
A reader’s history exploring the forgotten genre of girls’ comics Girls’ comics were a major genre from the 1950s onwards in Britain. The most popular titles sold between 800,000 and a million copies a week. However, this genre was slowly replaced by magazines which now dominate publishing for girls. Remembered Reading is a readers’ history which explores the genre, and memories of those comics, looking at how and why this rich history has been forgotten. The research is based around both analysis of what the titles contained and interviews with women about their childhood comic reading. In addition, it also looks at the other comic books that British girls engaged with, including humour comics and superhero titles. In doing so it looks at intersections of class, girlhood, and genre, and puts comic reading into historical, cultural, and educational context.
A Cosy Christmas at Bridget's Bicycle Bakery
The brand new romantic Christmas read from Alex Brown -the Queen of Feel Good Fiction and #1 bestseller! Bridget smiled to herself, certain she could see one of the stars twinkling extra brightly in that moment as if to acknowledge her wish and convince her that, yes, Mulberry-On-Sea was just the place they all needed to be. Surrounded by those happy memories of holidays and special times where nothing bad ever happened... Finding yourself without a home in the weeks before Christmas would break most people, but for Bridget Carrington it's a chance to start again. Mulberry-On-Sea has always been her happy place and she's hoping it can work its magic this festive season and heal her family af...
Sea Change
Before this summer Alex and Daniel were best friends. Then Chuck arrived. Chuck was exciting, challenging Alex to ever-increasing risks. But Chuck wasn't supposed to end up dead next to Alex's fishing boat. As Alex’s life spins out of control, and a boy in the village is beginning to show an unwelcome interest in him, Alex must get to the bottom of the mystery in order to prevent another death.
Working Backstage
Places backstage workers in the spotlight to acknowledge their essential roles in creating Broadway magic
New Queer Horror Film and Television
This book offers a wide scope in terms of how LGBTQ+ spectators engage and ‘use’ horror texts to identify. It includes close textual analysis in terms of the eclectic mix of Film and TV titles. It offers contemporary readings of significant titles from the past two decades or so.
The Rival Campers; Or, The Adventures of Henry Burns
In 'The Rival Campers; Or, The Adventures of Henry Burns' by Ruel Perley Smith, readers are transported to a classic tale of outdoor adventure and rivalry among a group of young campers. Written in a lively and descriptive style, the book captures the spirit of youth, friendship, and rivalry in a natural setting. Drawing on the rich tradition of boys' adventure literature, 'The Rival Campers' provides an entertaining and engaging read for readers of all ages, with its vivid descriptions of camping expeditions, challenges, and triumphs in the great outdoors. Smith's attention to detail and lively storytelling make this book a delightful choice for fans of classic adventure fiction. Ruel Perley Smith, a prolific author of children's literature, draws on his own experiences in the outdoors to create a compelling and relatable story that resonates with readers who enjoy tales of friendship, competition, and adventure. With its timeless themes and engaging narrative, 'The Rival Campers' is a must-read for anyone who loves a good adventure story and the great outdoors.
Textual Transformations in Children's Literature
This book offers new critical approaches for the study of adaptations, abridgments, translations, parodies, and mash-ups that occur internationally in contemporary children's culture. It follows recent shifts in adaptation studies that call for a move beyond fidelity criticism, a paradigm that measures the success of an adaptation by the level of fidelity to the "original" text, toward a methodology that considers the adaptation to be always already in conversation with the adapted text. This book visits children's literature and culture in order to consider the generic, pedagogical, and ideological underpinnings that drive both the process and the product. Focusing on novels as well as folk...
Forms, Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge
Forms, Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge explores the printscape – the mental mapping of knowledge in all its printed shapes – to chart the British networks of publishers, printers, copyright-holders, readers and authors. This transdisciplinary volume skilfully recovers innovations and practices in the book trade between 1688 and 1832. It investigates how print circulated information in a multitude of sizes and media, through an evolving framework of transactions. The authority of print is demonstrated by studies of prospectuses, blank forms, periodicals, pamphlets, globes, games and ephemera, uniquely gathered in eleven essays engaging in legal, economic, literary, and historical methodologies. The tight focus on material format reappraises a disorderly market accommodating a widening audience consumption.
