About the Journal

«Children's Readings» is dedicated to the interdisciplinary studies of children's literature and children's reading. In addition to academic research, the journal provides a range of materials related to the field: book and conference reviews, practitioners' discussions, interviews with children's writers, etc. The articles are published in both Russian and English.

Published since 2012.

Founder: Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) RAS

Chief editors: Maria Litovskaya and Svetlana Maslinskaya

The journal is included in the list of leading peer-reviewed scientific journals and publications recommended by the Higher Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation for publication of the main scientific results of dissertations for the degrees of doctor and candidate of philological sciences.

Please send your manuscript for consideration to: detskie.chtenia@gmail.com (Editorial Board)

ISSN 2304-5817 (Print)

ISSN 2686-7052 (Online)

Registration certificate PI No. FS 77 - 74012 dated October 19, 2018

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CFP. Issue 27. The problem of addressing children's literature

2024-08-08

Dear colleagues,

We would like to dedicate the 27th issue of Children's Readings to the problem of addressing children's literature. Literature created for children is the result of authors construction of a child's view of the world, a child's optics and worldview. The approaches used by authors to solve these problems vary from one literary period to another. The idea about the child reader as the addressee of a children's book has also changed considerably in the history of children's literature. Actors in the production of children's literature, such as children's writers, publishers, editors, illustrators, educators, critics play an important role in the construction of these perceptions.

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Current Issue

Vol. 26 No. 2 (2024)
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Issue 26 of Children's Readings is devoted to the study of the representation of geographical space in children's literature. Various approaches to the representation of geographical space clearly illustrate the factors on which this “sharpening” depends. These factors may include not only ideological fluctuations—when, under different political circumstances, the depiction of the same geographical object or ethnographic fact changes dramatically—but also shifts between an exoticizing perspective and one that conveys interest in and respect for another space or people, only for the former wariness and rejection to resurface. The genre constraints of children's publications can also exert influence: the structural and thematic features of serialized publications impose strict limitations on the selection and presentation of geographical material. The “geographical” issue of Children's Readings explores these and other aspects of the representation of literary space in works for children.
Published: 2024-12-18

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