Children's Literature scholars have always known the secret: children's literature is a cultural artifact. But that children's literature is valuable across the curriculum is still not widely held to be true. This collection offers concrete ways to integrate children's literature across the curriculum, showcasing the value of children's literature in the college classroom and giving due respect to the authors and illustrators from around the world who create smart, artful children’s literature.

Jennifer M. Miškec, Longwood University

This book makes the case for using an often overlooked and underestimated genre of literature – global children’s literature – in college level classrooms around the world to engage students in dialogue about difficult but important topics including (but not restricted to) race and culture, borders and boundaries, disability studies, nationhood and nationality, language, and translations. Specifically, the essays in this collection call attention to effective classroom practices that educators can employ to develop students’ critical thinking skills. They also serve to provide instructors with working models, discussion questions, and hands-on activities so that they, too, can integrate similar pedagogical practices into their own classrooms. After all, it is imperative that students be able to make connections between the texts that they read and the larger world around them. Timely and relevant, this volume would make a great addition to any educator’s collection.

Tharini Viswanath, University of South Carolina

Drawing from a variety of perspectives, Global Children’s Literature in the College Classroom offers creative strategies for including and engaging with children’s literature in college courses. What is particularly significant about this volume is that it disrupts the Euro- and US-centrism of Children’s Literature Studies by showcasing the diversity of and intersections between childhoods and children’s narratives around the world.

Lara Saguisag, New York University

A compelling collection of essays that suggests ways to use global children’s literature to anchor cross-cultural pedagogical practice, Austin and Nathanael’s volume offers a counter-curriculum to instructors from college-level literature and culture to teacher education classrooms. With its wide-ranging suggestions for texts, approaches, and assignments, Global Children’s Literature in the College Classroom thoughtfully addresses the integral role that international, transnational, world, and translated writing for the young, among others, can play in not simply reflecting, but also shaping and structuring our notions of global communities and spaces.

Blanka Grzegorczyk, University of Cambridge and Manchester Metropolitan University