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

Announcements

CFP. Issue 27. Сhildren's literature on media carriers

2025-01-17

We want to dedicate the 28th issue of Children's Readings to children's literature on various media carriers.

Despite researchers' understandable preference for studying printed texts for children, the history of children's literature in the 20th century cannot be written based solely on "paper" books. Literary works for children were also distributed as film adaptations and various forms of video and audio recordings, with video and voice versions often becoming the most widespread way for audiences to become familiar with Buratino, Winnie the Pooh, Alisa Selezneva, and other literary characters.

Read more about CFP. Issue 27. Сhildren's literature on media carriers

Current Issue

Vol. 27 No. 1 (2025)
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Issue 27 of "Children's Readings" is devoted to discussion of the addressii of children's literature. The focus is on how ideas about the child reader are changing and what techniques poets and writers use to construct the childish depending on the concept of childhood or the writer's mission. Using the material of children's literature of the 19th-21st centuries, such aspects as the problematic reader's address of a folk tale, the transformation of the genre nature of a work in the context of a change in addressee, adult allusions and meanings hidden from children in works originally addressed to children are studied.

Published: 2025-06-25

Full Issue

Introduction

Questionnaire of "Children's Readings"

Research papers

Recycling the Soviet in Children's Literature

Book Reviews

Conference

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