childrens literature

Now We Are Six at One Hundred: Affect, Atmosphere, and Ordinary Feeling in A. A. Milne's Hundred Acre Wood

Edited Collection for the Children's Literature Association Series: Centennial Studies

Call for Abstracts

In 2027, A. A. Milne's Now We Are Six reaches its centenary. This is the second collection of children's verse and the third book in the Pooh sequence, following When We Were Very Young (1924) and Winnie-the-Pooh (1926). It contains 35 poems, all illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. Unlike the prose Pooh books, it is a collection of self-contained poems. The poems move between several interconnected worlds:

Fusion or Fracture in the Hundred Acre Woods: Community in Adaptations of Winnie-the-Pooh (Virtual)

Co-organizers Michael A. Torregrossa and Carl B. Sell

Sponsored by Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association 

Call for Papers - Please Submit Proposals by 30 September 2026

58th Annual Convention of Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

Salve Regina University (Newport, RI)/Online.

Hybrid event: 6-9 March 2027

This session’s modality is Virtual Only, meaning all presentations will be delivered via Zoom regardless of whether the presenters are in-person.

I seek proposals for brief scholarly essays (3500-5000 words) that provide an overview of a chosen aspect of motherhood in the American imagination for a volume under contract with a new Bloomsbury series called Exploring the American Imagination: Ideals, Values, and Myths in Popular Culture. 

These overview essays should cite a number of popular culture texts to provide an overview of the tensions and contradictions as well as the foundational beliefs inherent in various aspects of American motherhood. Essays should cover multiple genres (film, fiction, television, graphic novels, music) and a broad time period. These are overviews or research starters rather than narrow analyses.

Host Institution: Sapienza University of Rome (Scientific Director: Prof. Federico Batini)

Conference Dates: December 2–3, 2026 (Rome) & December 4, 2026 (Perugia, Italy)

Official Website: www.sharedreadingaloud.com

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Research in Children’s Literature

Special Issue: Global Perspectives in Queer Children’s and Young Adult Literature

Guest Editor: Cheeno Marlo Sayuno, PhD

The twenty-first century has seen a world-wide immigration crisis to which Children and YA authors have responded with a wonderful explosion of literature capturing immigrant  and refugee experiences. From picture books to YA novels, authors present stories about immigrants from South America, the Caribbean,  Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. Each author explores the reasons for leaving “Home” (politics, economics, religious oppression, adoption, etc.) and youths’ experiences adjusting in their new “homes.”  These writers present readers with stories concerning the joys and sorrows that immigrants experience, challenge dehumanization, and deepen reader empathy. 

April 2-3, 2027

University of Notre Dame

Notre Dame, Indiana USA

Call for Papers

Extended deadline for chapter proposals: 10 June 2026.

Humans have long believed we are distinct from other animals in our rationality, self-consciousness, and use of language. Why, then, do writers, artists, and even scientists so often use anthropomorphism to interpret the behaviors of animals, plants, and even nonliving things such as trains, teapots, and toys? What are the repercussions of this tendency to understand the world in terms of human social and cultural identities?

This edited volume explores the interrelations between disability and addiction within Japanese literary literature. By focusing strictly on literary representations—and excluding media studies—this collection aims to examine how embodiment, social normativity, and deviance are negotiated through culturally specific frameworks.

The editors invite contributions for the following four sections

1. Disability in Japanese Literature (3 Articles)

Novitas-ROYAL is an open-access, peer-reviewed, international journal of the Children’s Research Center. It is devoted to promoting scholarly exchange among researchers who are academically interested in the education of youth, with a focus on the teaching, learning, acquisition, and use of second/foreign languages, as well as issues related to linguistics and language sciences, cultures, and literatures. The primary aim of the journal is to help accumulate knowledge about how foreign languages, cultures, and literatures can change students' lives. The journal is only electronic (no print version). It is biannually published in April and October.

At a time when some are attempting to rewrite the Humanities, it might be questioned as to how archives can not only be preserved but also utilized to fight for the future. Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture are deeply shaped by questions of memory, authority, and cultural transmission. Contributors are encouraged to consider the archive as an ever-evolving site of power that governs inclusion, exclusion, and interpretation. One might posit questions such as How do archival practices shape the stories available to young readers, and how might authors, educators, and scholars work against inherited silences and erasures?

Call for Proposals for
Easy and Early Readers in Children’s Literature and Culture: New Approaches to Theorizing Books for Beginning Readers (tentative title)

deadline for submissions: 

August 1, 2026 

full name / name of organization: 

Jennifer Miskec, Longwood University and Annette Wannamaker, Eastern Michigan University

contact email:

miskecjm@longwood.edu

Aims and Objectives