Childhood,the child and childness: A frame for reading and understanding media texts

Nodelman P (1985) The case of children’s fiction: Or the impossibility of Jacqueline Rose. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 10(3): 98–100.

Rose J (1992) The Case of Peter Pan, or the Impossibility of Children’s Fiction. New York: New York University Press.

Rudd D (2006) Theorising and theories: How does children’s literature exist? In: Hunt P (ed.) Understanding Children’s Literature. London: Routledge, pp. 25–39.

Rudd D Pavlik A (2010) The (im)possibility of children’s fiction: Rose twenty-five years on. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 35(3): 223–229.

Wojcik P (2016) Fantasies of Neglect: Imagining the Urban Child in American Film and Fiction. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.